Trump keeps citing the cognitive test he took and passed in 2018, almost six years ago. It was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
He has characterized it various ways, including an “IQ test” and other characterizations.
It is a test for severe dementia. While he hadn’t quite deteriorated to that level at the time of the test six years ago, it seems he has continued to deteriorate precipitously and one wonders whether the severely impaired Trump could pass the same test today.
One hint: He keeps on bragging about how the test presents pictures of various animals that the patient needs to identify. He repeatedly notes how easily he identified the whale.
When contacted, the makers of the test confirmed that their test has never, in any current or previous edition of the test, included a whale among the animal images included a whale.
Trump keeps citing the cognitive test he took and passed in 2018, almost six years ago. It was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
He has characterized it various ways, including an “IQ test” and other characterizations.
It is a test for severe dementia. While he hadn’t quite deteriorated to that level at the time of the test six years ago, it seems he has continued to deteriorate precipitously and one wonders whether the severely impaired Trump could pass the same test today.
One hint: He keeps on bragging about how the test presents pictures of various animals that the patient needs to identify. He repeatedly notes how easily he identified the whale.
When contacted, the makers of the test confirmed that their test has never, in any current or previous edition of the test, included a whale among the animal images included a whale.