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 presidents 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 hes 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, wouldve 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
SunSeeker
(57,441 posts)Skittles
(169,244 posts)these deluded assholes literally clap and cheer for that pathetic moron
Aussie105
(7,540 posts)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.
Schrödinger's cat?
Lonestarblue
(13,195 posts)I looked it up and actually knew a couple of them.
Polybius
(21,394 posts)It's way harder.
Dave Bowman
(6,534 posts)My daughter's Sweet Pickles workbooks introduced us to that critter.
ETA: https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/sweet-pickles/40497/?srsltid=AfmBOoruEXM7He0F33fRumOUyB-EJBTOs8vQ1LwW8tGePqq3JCT2HIL1
See book # 24
KS Toronado
(22,889 posts)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. 
IronLionZion
(50,728 posts)lots of good options in Australia
Polybius
(21,394 posts)Who the heck knows an animal that begins with X?
COL Mustard
(7,929 posts)According to him, he's grabbed enough of them!
Sorry if it offends anyone!
Americanme
(354 posts)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)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)Nasruddin
(1,171 posts)I hope our android overlords will be able to take care of them
agingdem
(8,758 posts)my daughters 49 year old friend was recently diagnosed with early-onset dementia.. she was unable to draw a circle..
Strelnikov_
(8,091 posts)UpInArms
(53,959 posts)Is this a test for a six year old?
llmart
(17,302 posts)That should be enough said.
agingdem
(8,758 posts)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)unless there was concern that their cognitive abilities were impaired?
Just wondering.
paleotn
(21,390 posts)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)by my count, youve 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)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)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)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)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)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)If they keep repeating these tests, theyre monitoring for rapidly worsening symptoms.
That he keeps bragging about them is another point on the hes losing it tally. LOL.
AZ8theist
(7,055 posts)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.
3Hotdogs
(14,981 posts)"Dancin' In The Streets."
Stardust Mirror
(666 posts)There'll be laughing, singing, music swinging
IzzaNuDay
(1,224 posts)For dancing in the streets,
twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)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)Second year in a row. I remembered the words from the year before. Can I be President? I'm a genius.
twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)llmart
(17,302 posts)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.
twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)PatSeg
(51,966 posts)You are right. He has such fond memories of their "relationship".
Ugh.
3Hotdogs
(14,981 posts)Paladin
(32,208 posts)The Madcap
(1,693 posts)Does that mean they are starting to space them closer together? I hadn't heard there was a third test.
nwduke
(480 posts)Is that the buffoon bragged about it!🤪
Farmer-Rick
(12,407 posts)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)You nailed it!!!
mwb970
(12,056 posts)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)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 isat least compared to them.
They are indeed pathetic, but they were cultivated to be sostupid, 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)Let me know how it went.
Talitha
(7,662 posts)Fil1957
(499 posts)DrFunkenstein
(8,897 posts)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.
chouchou
(2,738 posts)The 3 objects were Book....um....ah...
eppur_se_muova
(40,864 posts)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)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)Mary Trump does that test here:
starting about 6:25.
Bluetus
(2,188 posts)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.
turbinetree
(26,932 posts)Historic NY
(39,577 posts)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.
Historic NY
(39,577 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(174,270 posts)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
Link to tweet


According to one prior physical trump was 244
https://apnews.com/doctors-kept-close-eye-on-trumps-use-of-malaria-drug-0d70f7339bd492556d5b15adc7a001d4
There are other reports of trump weighing more
Link to tweet
No medical report would discuss trump's golf game
Link to tweet


Beartracks
(14,312 posts)Why are they giving him cognitive tests all the time?
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Beartracks
(14,312 posts)EarthFirst
(3,926 posts)Identifying barnyard animals is a fucking task my five year old nephew can ace
homegirl
(1,917 posts)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)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 moms case she was diagnosed with Primary progressive aphasia. But she still passed the cognitive test. So its not super hard as Trump maintains.
Later as my moms disease worsened she didnt 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)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)He might have been looking at an orangutan, an ass, a rat, and a skunk...
iemanja
(57,314 posts)It is not normal.
Tetrachloride
(9,311 posts)Clouds Passing
(6,835 posts)slightlv
(7,396 posts)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!
flashman13
(1,961 posts)tavernier
(14,210 posts)Oops, he missed Tiffany and Balthazar. Or whatever Malaria named him
mdbl
(8,020 posts)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.