Former President Donald Trump recently revisited his past success on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test during a Turning Point USA event in Detroit, where he boasted about his performance and challenged President Joe Biden to take a similar test.
Trump emphasized his achievement on the cognitive test, stating, “I took a cognitive test and I aced it.” This remark comes amid ongoing discussions about Biden’s cognitive abilities, sparked by a controversial Wall Street Journal feature that raised questions about the president’s mental acuity, although critics argued the article leaned too heavily on Republican perspectives. Polls this year have shown a significant portion of Americans expressing concerns about Biden’s age, 81, and his ability to serve a second term.
However, Trump, who recently turned 78, has not been immune to scrutiny regarding his own mental sharpness. During his speech, he inadvertently misstated the name of the medical professional who administered his cognitive test, referring to “Doc Ronny Johnson” instead of Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician who conducted the assessment.
Trump continued by recalling positive remarks attributed to Dr. Ronny Jackson about his health, describing him as the congressman from Texas and noting Jackson’s assessment that Trump was “the healthiest president, he feels, in history.”
