Isn't this the second time this exact thing has happened?
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Yep, and despite all that and his first term half the US voters still figured he'd be a great President.
But he could totally identify which one was the elephant, and didn't confuse it with the rhino or the camel even once. I'm pretty sure that qualifies anyone to be the bigliest president.
Yeah, but Biden was just so old. Many people said so!
It's fun to remind them that Trump was older when he took office in '25 than Biden was in '21.
It's fun to remind them that he's never won against a man.
For reasons that don't make any sense to me, that seems to really bother them. 🤔
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They're going to keep giving it to him to gauge his decline.
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The related stories are just as funny/tragic:
5 words? oh the humanity
And he couldn't even remember them, so he glanced around the room and came up with person, woman, man, camera, TV.
And... recalling the words later on in the test... is part of the test. Uh oh
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I do not drink alcohol. The day this guy stops talking I will go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of Champagne and drink it alone.
My wife and I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift. The day it happens is the day we uncork the bottle.
If you don't drink, can I recommend basically anything but champagne? Its not good tasting, get a sweet wine or something else instead.
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Alcohol triggers two medical conditions I have so I to don't drink anymore. After 6 years without a drop of alcohol, trust me you're better off not having it, just buy some fireworks or something.
I would but gunpowder exacerbates my acid reflux
Gluten free gunpowder, a bit more expensive but worth it once in a while when you want to treat yourself.
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That's why you have to light the fireworks before eating them. They undergo a chemical reaction when lit and are not longer gunpowder after a few seconds.
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Tbh, those tests are normally done when you already have issues to determine the severity, and his narcissism does not allow any other message than "perfect score", so i would be more concerned about that his immediate surroundings wanted him to have an MRI and dementia screenings.
That's what I said the first time he bragged about his doctors saying that he doesn't have dementia: I don't think people without indicators need in-depth screenings in the first place.
You genuinely couldn't make this shit up, could you?
Also, I hate that I now read quotes from him in his voice. I want it out of my head.
My tired ass first read "you genetically couldn't make this shit up", and frankly, we should preemptively make a law for this.
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Okay so this is the second time he’s done that right?
He’s confused a dementia test for an IQ test… twice…
Is that not a sign he might have dementia or something? He should at least remember us making fun of him for it the first time right?
This is an honest question btw. Am I’m missing something? It’s happened twice now?
I mean it could just mean he has incredibly low IQ, maybe?
Or both
They could also be lying to him what the test really is because he would refuse a dementia test otherwise.
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There is some clip from this where he's like "Hippo, lion, tiger. Crocket couldnt do that. It gets very hard at 10."
Bruh he's literally being asked to list just any fucking animal he can. Like... this is a test for 3yos.
I've taken a number of IQ tests, not one of them had pictures of animals on it.
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You had the spirit of the quote:
"The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions."
He's naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him!
Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored.
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It's actually a test for dementia patients, to gauge how severe their disease is. That he's being asked to take it at all is... not good.
Though I'm not really sure if I would prefer him lucid or impaired. It's not like he was a good person when he was in full command of his faculties.
My Dad passed away from from dementia, and he was deep into it before the tests finally officially confirmed it. Literally EVERYONE around him absolutely knew it, but so much of the test had to do with numbers - telling time, adding numbers, etc. - that he did deceptively good on it. He never had a problem with numbers, right up to the end. He had been a Mathmatics major in college, and was hard-wired for numbers. Even dementia couldn't disturb that. I saw a 60 minutes piece on Tony Bennett, and he was exactly the same way with music.
So just because you pass the test, doesn't mean you aren't already showing strong symptoms of dementia. I've never taken the test, and neither has my mother. You only take it when someone suggests that it's a good idea because you've been showing symptoms. Of Trump is taking it, it's probably because those around him are becoming alarmed at his behavior.
I really think AOC should take him up on this offer and demand it's broadcast live.
a live telacast of everyone in congress doing dementia screenings would be fantastic imo
Doctor: Draw a clock.
Trump: sweating profusely
Just another stupid story to distract from the Epstein files.
Any IQ test is hard for him
It isn’t even an iq test, it’s a cognitive test. For dementia and stroke patients. Questions are things like ‘place the numbers where they go on an analog clock.’
I wonder if they're going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.
People on here get all upset about kids these days who can't read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it's completely reasonable that they don't know how to drive a manual.
People on here get all upset about kids these days who can't read an analog clock
To be fair, it was mostly that one idiot who thought it should disqualify students from sitting exams..
Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it's completely reasonable that they don't know how to drive a manual.
And I agree. Just like analog clocks and indeed internal combustion engine cars in general, manual transmissions are technology that used to be the norm but is now old fashioned, unnecessary except for rare use cases, and fast approaching obsolete.
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Aww bless him, that's just what his people told him the test was for. He doesn't know any better.
😂
😭
Is this consistent misunderstanding of his more indicative of his IQ or his dementia?
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Remember the halcyon days when this would have automatically been assumed to be an Onion article? I remember...
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Again? 🤦
💯he has dementia.
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