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BumRushDaShow

(165,156 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:42 AM Sunday

Trump again boasts he 'aced' cognitive tests - and reveals which animals he was required to identify

Source: The Independent

Saturday 20 December 2025 15:44 EST


President Donald Trump once again boasted about having “aced” three cognitive tests in wide-ranging remarks.

As concerns around the 79-year-old president’s health and mental fitness continue to mount — particularly after his rambling speech earlier this week, apparently falling asleep at several events including a Cabinet meeting, and his controversial Truth Social post about late filmmaker Rob Reiner — Trump reminded a North Carolina crowd on Friday that he’s “aced” several cognitive exams and is in “perfect health.”

“I did something no other president's ever done. I took cognitive tests because I know that and by the way, not easy,” Trump said in his Friday speech that was reportedly meant to focus on the economy.

He then took the opportunity to opine about how his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, would’ve performed on the mental fitness test: “You get to those last questions, those last 10, 15 questions…and I aced them. And no other president's taken a cog–... Could you imagine sleepy Joe taking a cognitive test?” The president then told the audience about the test, which apparently began with a question asking to identify animals.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-perfect-health-cognitive-tests-b2888369.html



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Trump again boasts he 'aced' cognitive tests - and reveals which animals he was required to identify (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
How do people sit there and listen to that? He is so deranged. SunSeeker Sunday #1
if they just listened that would be one thing Skittles Sunday #74
Aardvark, Beaver, cat . . . .zebra! Aussie105 Sunday #2
How 'bout A Badger Sunday #6
Good test. I had trouble with U. Lonestarblue Sunday #16
Wait till you get to X! Polybius Sunday #28
Xenomorph? Dave Bowman Sunday #45
Xerus Mossfern Sunday #70
Unicorn work? KS Toronado Sunday #50
Platypus, Quokka, Wallaby, IronLionZion Sunday #20
Wouldn't 99% of us fail that one? Polybius Sunday #26
We know he'd recognize a beaver. COL Mustard Sunday #64
Has no reporter ever asked WHY? Americanme Sunday #3
My late mother-in-law, with diagnosed Alzheimers, "passed" agingdem Sunday #15
Digital generation can't read or draw a clock. Or use letters when dialing a phone. Or. Will have to redo the tests. cbabe Sunday #52
We will never know Nasruddin Sunday #62
The digital generation can still draw a circle .. agingdem Sunday #65
Exactly Strelnikov_ Sunday #21
WTaF? UpInArms Sunday #4
And he said they're "not easy". llmart Sunday #12
Dementia Donnie was smugly boasting he could discern a agingdem Sunday #41
Why would anyone be taking these tests repeatedly Demobrat Sunday #5
The orange shite isn't smart enough or lucid enough to realize that. paleotn Sunday #19
Well, except for the "unable to feed himself" part of your wish list, YodaMom2 Sunday #48
Why would anyone one take the first one johnnyfins Sunday #38
You get past 65 and they start checking on an annual basis, part of the wellness exam Maeve Sunday #49
Probably not in use Nasruddin Sunday #63
I don't think it is routinely done. karynnj Sunday #75
that's my question... agingdem Sunday #44
Exactly. buzzycrumbhunger Sunday #76
More gaslighting of America. AZ8theist Sunday #7
I'm ready for my soon-to-be favorite record, 3Hotdogs Sunday #10
Are you ready for a brand new day? Stardust Mirror Sunday #53
Cheeto's dead and the time is right IzzaNuDay Sunday #55
Banana, chair, sunrise. I aced it too, back in November. twodogsbarking Sunday #8
River, nation, finger for me. mwb970 Sunday #27
Maybe you could be President. There may be an opening soon. twodogsbarking Sunday #29
Ask him the name of his present wife. Fail. twodogsbarking Sunday #9
To be fair... llmart Sunday #14
I wouldn't want to be linked to any of those kids either. twodogsbarking Sunday #18
"Ivanka, Ivanka, Ivanka, and Ivanka" PatSeg Sunday #23
Oh yeah. llmart Sunday #47
I always stumble over Hippy-ponty mist. 3Hotdogs Sunday #11
NOW you did it! You gave trump the answer! (nt) Paladin Sunday #13
A third one? The Madcap Sunday #17
What's even worse nwduke Sunday #22
I like that the Independent used pedo Trump's exact words Farmer-Rick Sunday #24
"It's like trying to translate the words of a child just learning to speak." Talitha Sunday #39
And did his worshipers cheer in response to this idiotic nonsense? mwb970 Sunday #25
Don't forget... buzzycrumbhunger Sunday #77
Go to your grocery store and walk up to random people and tell them you aced the cognitive test. twodogsbarking Sunday #30
Good one!!! Talitha Sunday #40
Bragging about taking cognitive tests, just shows he has dementia... Fil1957 Sunday #31
No Sitting President In History Has Done a Better Coloring Job DrFunkenstein Sunday #32
I took a similar test just yesterday. chouchou Sunday #33
These tests are only given to people who are suspected of having mental issues. The more doubt, the more tests. eppur_se_muova Sunday #34
Hey Traitor .......I don't know who your doctors are (they are military right , taxpayer funded .....or do you remember) turbinetree Sunday #35
For anyone who has never actually seen the real Montreal Cognitive Assessment Bluetus Sunday #36
There is also a similar test: SLUMS Bluetus Sunday #37
This is the test my doctor gave me .................. turbinetree Sunday #46
I was given several tests when rehabing from a cardiac arrest. Historic NY Sunday #42
The question is was it a one humper or two humper camel? Historic NY Sunday #43
trump is not well and is lying about his medical condition LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #51
I agree with Lieu: this isn't the flex Trump thinks it is. Beartracks Sunday #54
We really don't know if those animals were the ones on the test. Beartracks Sunday #56
This isn't the flex he believes it is... EarthFirst Sunday #57
My 2 cents... homegirl Sunday #58
In the early stages of frontal lobe dementia, my mom passed same test crimycarny Sunday #59
Trump is a regular brainiac. democrank Sunday #60
How would we know if his animal identification was correct? Harker Sunday #61
The fact they are even giving him tests like these shows he's lost it. iemanja Sunday #66
He probably knows the difference between Diet Coke and a Big Mac Tetrachloride Sunday #67
Viper, Hyena, Badger Clouds Passing Sunday #68
Constant cognitive tests to a single person means just one thing to those of us with a brain... slightlv Sunday #69
I'm good with animals. Whenever I see a picture of Trump I always think horse's ass. flashman13 Sunday #71
Eric, Donald, Ivanka? tavernier Sunday #72
Did Miss Barbara give you star little dopey? mdbl Sunday #73
At least the dinosaurs had an excuse for going extent NotHardly Monday #78

Skittles

(169,244 posts)
74. if they just listened that would be one thing
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:03 PM
Sunday

these deluded assholes literally clap and cheer for that pathetic moron

Aussie105

(7,540 posts)
2. Aardvark, Beaver, cat . . . .zebra!
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:58 AM
Sunday

Ask him to name one animal for each letter of the alphabet.

I bet he fails that cognitive test dismally!

It requires memory skills and keeping track of where you are in the alphabet.
Difficult for those with impaired cognitive skills.

Try it!

Yes, colors are allowed if you get stuck - y= yellow canary for instance.

KS Toronado

(22,889 posts)
50. Unicorn work?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:14 PM
Sunday

I know it's a mythical creature, but the stupid Gropenfuhrer claims they are real and had one as a pet growing up
he rode to school every day.

COL Mustard

(7,929 posts)
64. We know he'd recognize a beaver.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:13 PM
Sunday

According to him, he's grabbed enough of them!

Sorry if it offends anyone!

Americanme

(354 posts)
3. Has no reporter ever asked WHY?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:06 AM
Sunday

Why do your doctors, or staff, keep insisting that you take dementia tests? Why another, then another? What are they concerned about? What did you do to spur this concern? Why do reporters treat the orange clown differently that they did President Biden? Where is Jake Tapper's book about this?

agingdem

(8,758 posts)
15. My late mother-in-law, with diagnosed Alzheimers, "passed"
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:57 AM
Sunday

simple cognitive tests...and yet, she couldn't draw a clock..a very big dementia "tell"...

my question to reporters (and I use the term "reporters" loosely because they do not report they entertain) is why do they not correct the "I passed the cognitive test" narrative with the definition of a cognitive test...a test where there is no pass/fail ...no attaboy, no gold star, no A+++++...a test that evaluates the brain function...thinking/memory/language... a test intended to spot mental impairment...

if liar Trump is somehow telling the truth as to the multitude of cognitive tests, then it's obvious to me his doctors are aware his dementia is incrementally worsening...

and it's also obvious the media is more concerned about access to that bloviating psychotic degenerate then informing the public...







cbabe

(6,127 posts)
52. Digital generation can't read or draw a clock. Or use letters when dialing a phone. Or. Will have to redo the tests.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:27 PM
Sunday

agingdem

(8,758 posts)
65. The digital generation can still draw a circle ..
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:19 PM
Sunday

my daughter’s 49 year old friend was recently diagnosed with early-onset dementia.. she was unable to draw a circle..

UpInArms

(53,959 posts)
4. WTaF?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:26 AM
Sunday
“The first question is like, ‘What is this?’ And they show a lion, a giraffe, a fish, and a hippopotamus. And they say, ‘Which is the giraffe?’” he recalled.


Is this a test for a six year old?

agingdem

(8,758 posts)
41. Dementia Donnie was smugly boasting he could discern a
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:07 PM
Sunday

giraffe from a lion, a fish, and a hippo on a simple cognitive test like he was expecting some idiot to award him The Animal Kingdom Peace Prize...

Demobrat

(10,257 posts)
5. Why would anyone be taking these tests repeatedly
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:37 AM
Sunday

unless there was concern that their cognitive abilities were impaired?
Just wondering.

paleotn

(21,390 posts)
19. The orange shite isn't smart enough or lucid enough to realize that.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:11 AM
Sunday

So he blathers on making it obvious that what little brain he started with is going to shit. Gone to shit perhaps.

I want to see him as a pathetic, slumped mass, making unintelligible sounds, unable to feed himself, smelling of urine and shit. I'll smile and think, you deserved far, far worse you bastard.

YodaMom2

(147 posts)
48. Well, except for the "unable to feed himself" part of your wish list,
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:59 PM
Sunday

by my count, you’ve already got a trifecta. Slumped mass? Check. Unintelligible sounds? Check. Smelling of urine and shit? Throw in hairspray and pancake make-up, and you got it!

johnnyfins

(3,385 posts)
38. Why would anyone one take the first one
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:33 AM
Sunday

if there wasn't a question about their cognitive ability? It is completely abnormal and weird to brag that you volunteered for these tests and then you "aced" them. Dirty Diaper Don thinks they are IQ tests. And we could have had Kamala as POTUS...

Maeve

(43,327 posts)
49. You get past 65 and they start checking on an annual basis, part of the wellness exam
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:12 PM
Sunday

But more than that, and it's because you're giving off indications of slipping

Still betting on FTD (frontotemporal dementia )

Nasruddin

(1,171 posts)
63. Probably not in use
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:07 PM
Sunday

Since the fronto temporal region wasn't one he made much use of in life, he can probably run on fumes for decades. Centuries, even.

karynnj

(60,765 posts)
75. I don't think it is routinely done.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:03 PM
Sunday

I am 75 and have never been asked to take one. I do know people at the same medical practice who have. I have filled in the Medicare form that assesses depression etc. yearly.

agingdem

(8,758 posts)
44. that's my question...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:22 PM
Sunday

I know there are more advanced cognitive tests...my mother-in-law suffered with Alzheimers for years... but the fact that he seems to be taking the same test over and over again leads me to believe his doctors are aware anything more difficult would enrage the psychotic degenerate, depriving him of his gold star and lollipop..

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,604 posts)
76. Exactly.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:28 PM
Sunday

If they keep repeating these tests, they’re monitoring for rapidly worsening symptoms.

That he keeps bragging about them is another point on the “he’s losing it” tally. LOL.

AZ8theist

(7,055 posts)
7. More gaslighting of America.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 05:16 AM
Sunday

He is MONUMENTALLY STUPID.
He is FUCKING SENILE.
He is DEMENTED.
He has a 4th grade intellect.
He SPEAKS at a 4th grade level.
He is the DUMBEST President in US history.

He is, perhaps, the dumbest human in human history.

Saying he "aced" a cognitive test designed to track mental decline, a test any 3 year old could pass, is an indication this fucking asshole has one foot in the looney bin, and hopefully 2 feet in the grave.

Just fucking DIE, you fucking garbage sub-human. The WORLD will welcome that event.

twodogsbarking

(17,476 posts)
8. Banana, chair, sunrise. I aced it too, back in November.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 06:31 AM
Sunday

The nice young lady was chuckling as she asked the questions. We had talked about things and she knew I didn't have Trumpmentia.

mwb970

(12,056 posts)
27. River, nation, finger for me.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:02 AM
Sunday

Second year in a row. I remembered the words from the year before. Can I be President? I'm a genius.

llmart

(17,302 posts)
14. To be fair...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:54 AM
Sunday

he has had more than one. That makes it more difficult.

I would also ask him the names of his children. For sure he couldn't get that straight.

The Madcap

(1,693 posts)
17. A third one?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:17 AM
Sunday

Does that mean they are starting to space them closer together? I hadn't heard there was a third test.

Farmer-Rick

(12,407 posts)
24. I like that the Independent used pedo Trump's exact words
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:52 AM
Sunday

Last edited Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:46 PM - Edit history (2)

The quotes are his words. They didn't clean up the grammar or complete the sentence fragments. They do a little sane washing around the quotes. But it's still better than what our news media does which is to quote him speaking with full sentences and proper grammar, which he never does.

So let's fix his dementia riddled grammar. The highlighted areas are My corrections: "I did something no other president('s should be removed) has ever done. I took a? several? some? cognitive tests because I know that (what? What does he know?) and by the way, it's not easy,”

The man has lost all ability to speak in complete sentences in proper grammar. It's like trying to translate the words of a child just learning to speak.

And this is just one group of sentence fragments in a 90 minute speech. He had 5 errors in that small thought he tried to express. It's exhausting trying to listen to the man because you have to constantly try to figure out what he is trying to say. And the country is being run by this addled fool who can't speak.

Talitha

(7,662 posts)
39. "It's like trying to translate the words of a child just learning to speak."
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:58 AM
Sunday

You nailed it!!!

mwb970

(12,056 posts)
25. And did his worshipers cheer in response to this idiotic nonsense?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
Sunday

It must be hard to be a MAGA moron and to have to pretend that trump is a brilliant genius, all to avoid admitting you were wrong. These people are pathetic.

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,604 posts)
77. Don't forget...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:41 PM
Sunday

Over half of Americans read below a 6th-grade level. This is by design, specifically thanks to arseholes like the Koch brothers. (Check out the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, which you can find for free on the Internet Archive.)

These buffoons are probably not pretending the orange boobie is a brilliant genius, they probably think he really is—at least compared to them.

They are indeed pathetic, but they were cultivated to be so—stupid, gullible, and willing to be led.

https://www.investigatetv.com/2025/12/01/more-than-half-american-adults-read-below-sixth-grade-level/

twodogsbarking

(17,476 posts)
30. Go to your grocery store and walk up to random people and tell them you aced the cognitive test.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:27 AM
Sunday

Let me know how it went.

DrFunkenstein

(8,897 posts)
32. No Sitting President In History Has Done a Better Coloring Job
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:56 AM
Sunday

Trump stayed in the lines better than anyone, including Washington and Lincoln. The hippo looks absolutely perfect, the doctors said with tears streaming down their faces.

eppur_se_muova

(40,864 posts)
34. These tests are only given to people who are suspected of having mental issues. The more doubt, the more tests.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:03 AM
Sunday

NOT something to be bragging about, but Trmp is utterly incapable of thinking that through.

"They keep giving me tests to see if I'm mentally incompetent, and they haven't decided yet ! How impressive is that ?"

turbinetree

(26,932 posts)
35. Hey Traitor .......I don't know who your doctors are (they are military right , taxpayer funded .....or do you remember)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:15 AM
Sunday

but my doctor would put your doctors to shame, first she wouldn't lie, second she would refuse to give you the test unless someone else was with her because of her integrity .........I am going on 75 and she gave me my yearly Medicare cognitive required test from last year, this year ................. just to see how my memory was, in fact she asked me if I remember the clock and big hands and time that I had to draw for her from last year..............guess what traitor.................I passed that part of the test................can you fucking do that...............this just shows how I can brag about myself in my own narcissistic way asshole in fact when I did my test I got the A++++++++++++++++++++++++++, I beat you asshole...............come on tell the world............. just how your "cortes film" membrane around your brain is shrinking and damaged when you yell and scream when some credible reporter asks a blunt question to you and calling you out for your actions of hate and disgust to other people with your "anger dementia" being exposed when you answer .............you know your lack of the comprehension of empathy................just my opinion...........

Bluetus

(2,188 posts)
36. For anyone who has never actually seen the real Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:18 AM
Sunday

Mary Trump does that test here:



starting about 6:25.

Bluetus

(2,188 posts)
37. There is also a similar test: SLUMS
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:24 AM
Sunday

St Louis University Mental Status. Here is a video of that test being administered.



From Trump's detailed boasting, I believe they have been giving him the Montreal version.

Historic NY

(39,577 posts)
42. I was given several tests when rehabing from a cardiac arrest.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:14 PM
Sunday

They were trying to determine brain function as I was out for 9 minutes. I had the one in the video also. Drawing lines was the hardest since I had shakes from breathing treatments. They ran a number of video interactive tests to determine brain function and responses and reaction time. A lot of those were for driving. I can say they were shocked about reaction time, that it was well above the normal range. It was old muscle memory, from 40+ yrs of firearm qualifications hand/eye coordination exercises.

The naming animals is a PIA a minute is a long time. Start with domesticated and barn yard ones first.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,270 posts)
51. trump is not well and is lying about his medical condition
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:19 PM
Sunday

I would love to see a doctor testify about this report under oath. This report was done by trump and not by a doctor.

There is no way that trump is 6 foot three and only weights 224 pound





According to one prior physical trump was 244
https://apnews.com/doctors-kept-close-eye-on-trumps-use-of-malaria-drug-0d70f7339bd492556d5b15adc7a001d4
Trump’s weight came in a 244 pounds. That gives him a Body Mass Index of 30.5, based on his 6-foot, 3-inch frame. An index rating of 30 is the level at which doctors consider someone to be obese. About 40 percent of Americans are obese.

There are other reports of trump weighing more



No medical report would discuss trump's golf game




Beartracks

(14,312 posts)
54. I agree with Lieu: this isn't the flex Trump thinks it is.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:54 PM
Sunday

Why are they giving him cognitive tests all the time?

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EarthFirst

(3,926 posts)
57. This isn't the flex he believes it is...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:24 PM
Sunday

Identifying barnyard animals is a fucking task my five year old nephew can ace…

homegirl

(1,917 posts)
58. My 2 cents...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:25 PM
Sunday

TDS = Trump's Delusional Syndrome

Every day more and more of his MAGA supporters realize that DJT is not in touch with reality. The GOP politicians are evaluating his shelf life and will soon make crucial decisions.

PS: Any ideas of how many who post on OAN/Breitbart type site are AI or Trump Trolls, when challenged to provide sources, links and verification--they never respond!

crimycarny

(1,980 posts)
59. In the early stages of frontal lobe dementia, my mom passed same test
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:42 PM
Sunday

My mom was displaying some concerning symptoms: aphasia, a flat sort of monotone style of speech, personality changes. I took her to the doctor and they gave the same cognitive test, which she passed.

In my mom’s case she was diagnosed with Primary progressive aphasia”. But she still passed the cognitive test. So it’s not “super hard” as Trump maintains.

Later as my mom’s disease worsened she didn’t pass, but the only reason to take more than one cognitive test would be due to a concerning symptoms of dementia and to gauge any progression.

democrank

(12,060 posts)
60. Trump is a regular brainiac.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:57 PM
Sunday

He yells “giraffe” when he sees a drawing of one and yells “bone spurs” when he sees a paper that looks like a draft notice.

Harker

(17,285 posts)
61. How would we know if his animal identification was correct?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:57 PM
Sunday

He might have been looking at an orangutan, an ass, a rat, and a skunk...

slightlv

(7,396 posts)
69. Constant cognitive tests to a single person means just one thing to those of us with a brain...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 05:40 PM
Sunday

people don't think he's mentally all there. These are all showing degradation with each test. The idiot is just too dumb to realize it, nor understand people are making fun of him whenever he comes out with these stupid comments.

If he a family that cared about him, they'd put him in a memory home where he could do no harm. But there doesn't seem to be ANYONE in his life that gives 2 cents for him!

mdbl

(8,020 posts)
73. Did Miss Barbara give you star little dopey?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:51 PM
Sunday

A test that a first grader could pass and he's boasting. Did he use the see and say? "The cow goes MOOOOOOO"

What a maroon.

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