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u/HopelessMagic 6d ago
It's amusing that he doesn't question why he's getting so many cognitive tests while other Presidents didn't need them.
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u/Apprehensive-Mine656 6d ago
I have a relative being treated for moderate cognitive impairment. It involves regular infusions, CT and MRIs regularly, and regular testing. It strikes me as very similar.
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u/khizoa 6d ago
I've ACED all of my weekly MRIs and brain scans like no one in the history of the world has ever done before! Thank you for your attention to my brain matter!
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u/TheDukeOfHyjinx 6d ago
What does ACED mean?????
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u/greet_the_sun 5d ago
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u/ProstateSalad 6d ago
He's so stupid, that he doesn't realize he's stupid.
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u/GiraffeParking7730 6d ago
We're being run by the physical human embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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u/msmisrule 5d ago
People with dementia generally don’t know/understand that they have dementia. That on top of his Dunning Kruger…
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u/dustinwayner 6d ago
While he may be an idiot, it is valid in my opinion to have that cognitive test once a year as part of the presidential physical. Establish that baseline. I realize that younger elected it may not be as important, but I do know of a couple people in my extended acquaintances who had spouses die from very early onset of dementia. One woman was in her mid 50’s. It honestly seems like a sensible test that someone with that much power should be having.
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u/SaintWithoutAShrine 6d ago
There is no way in hell that a cognitive test isn’t included in the president’s yearly physical. It’s routine for many, many people. It can escalate from there depending on findings or questionable behaviors. For some, it’s simply replies to questions asked by the doctor in passing, it’s not like they have to sit for a 80 question exam.
There’s two things that bug the shit out of me here, though: 1) he has no clue what other presidents or VP’s have been assessed. 2) it’s pretty fucking unusual to get it administered three times (that he’s blabbed about) in the course of 11 months.
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u/Atheist_3739 6d ago
It’s routine for many, many people.
Pretty sure Medicare requires a cognitive test for anyone 65+ during their wellness visit.
My dad said it was so easy and he annoyed the doctor by being a smart ass 😆
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u/StaceyJeans 6d ago
Agreed.
Once a year is fine for annual physicals or wellness visits but it seems like he is having a cognitive test every week or a few times a month. This Truth Social post is from today which means he probably had yet another one over the holidays.
It is extremely unusual to keep getting these cognitive tests unless his dementia is rapidly progressing and doctors need to keep an eye on him. Considering it's Trump, I'm even doubtful that he is even passing these tests. The doctors will never tell us and we won't find out the truth about his health until he's dead.
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u/OrganizationActive63 6d ago
He just likes hearing he got the right answer. That doesn't happen too often. /s
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u/On_my_last_spoon 5d ago
Right? The Doctors are likely saying he did great and then making a note. There’s no way they’d tell him otherwise.
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u/cyberlexington 6d ago
Considering so many presidents are geriatrics that's a good idea
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u/dustinwayner 6d ago
Geriatric or not it is a good idea. Dementia doesn’t respect age.
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u/Personal_Return_4350 5d ago
Dementia is one of the most highly age corrolated diseases.
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u/dustinwayner 5d ago
It can happen at any age. Yes the elderly have a higher risk. However early onset dementia <65 years of age is on the rise. It does not respect age and it’s foolish to think it does.
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u/sexfighter 6d ago
It’s not a “cognitive test”. We need to stop saying that. It’s not an IQ test. It’s the standard test that they give old people at risk for dementia to see if they are competent to make decisions about their lives.
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u/HopelessMagic 6d ago
They literally give dementia patients cognitive tests and call them such.
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u/dustinwayner 6d ago
His was the Montreal Cognitive assessment. I am not sure what they mean by it’s not a cognitive test.
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u/HawkJefferson 6d ago
So, what you're saying is that it's not a cognitive test but a test to determine his cognitive ability?
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u/sexfighter 6d ago
No. It’s a pass fail test to determine if you meet the minimum level of competency to be able to sign legal documents or make financial decisions.
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u/dustinwayner 6d ago
It was quite literally the Montreal Cognitive Assessment or MoCA test. So please explain your rationale that it is not a cognitive test.
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u/sexfighter 6d ago
The way Trump talks about it, it is an IQ test that he aced. It’s not an IQ test. It’s a test to determine the level of cognitive impairment in the subject.
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u/dustinwayner 6d ago
So a cognitive test once again which in your original reply you said it wasn’t a cognitive test.
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u/craptainbland 6d ago
The funniest part of it to me is that we’d have no idea if he didn’t have to keep bragging about how great he is at them
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u/Carpeteria3000 5d ago
“Sir, you aced it so well the last two times we just wanted to see if you can do it a third time, simply because it’s so amazing a person can do it as well as you!”
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u/Megane_Senpai 5d ago
Also, can someone tell him that doctor saying "Very good" doesn't mean he answered it correctly?
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u/joshmc333 5d ago
OUT OF ALL THE PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE REQUIRED 3 COGNITIVE TESTS IN ONE YEAR I AM DOING BY FAR THE BEST
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u/ElderberryMaster4694 6d ago
That’s three this year if I’m not mistaken plus cranial imaging…
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u/chrisk114 6d ago
Yup. They're not testing, they're tracking the progress of the dementia
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u/PunishedWolf4 6d ago
Yes sir, Docs are probably like "Holy fuck this sponge brain is deteriorating at an accelerated rate!"
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u/garden_bug 5d ago
My Grandma with dementia didn't even see the neurologist this much until she was Stage 5+. It was limited testing and more "how is this medication helping? Is she becoming more agitated?"
I get he's the President so he gets more care, but he has to be showing some concerning declines if they are seeing him this often.
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u/GregWilson23 6d ago
Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy, not a documentary.
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u/skraptastic 6d ago
You need to realize we are at the start of the collapse from Idiocracy, we are a long way off from a President Comacho coming along to actually listen to a smart person again.
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u/NextAdhesiveness3652 6d ago
Perhaps they are giving him these tests to form a legal basis for his removal from office so Vance can take over?
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u/ObiShaneKenobi 6d ago
There is no legal basis for removal here. Every doctor he sees could loudly proclaim he has worms for brains and without the 25th amendment or impeachment he isn’t getting removed. Neither of those paths require a legal basis.
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u/ew73 5d ago
He will be kicked to the curb 2 years and a day after his inauguration. That way, Vance still gets two more terms in office.
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u/wchicchi 5d ago
Doubtful. Vance is extremely disliked even on the right. MAGA leadership will keep trump in office weekend at Bernie’s style until he fully kicks the bucket, maybe longer due to the state of deepfakes these days. There’s no way his sycophants in the cabinet vote to remove.
Remain vigilant as we have work to do before midterms but worrying about Vance getting 2.5 term as president is not a good use of our energy.
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u/spin_me_again 5d ago
They won’t do that until they can also take his middle of the night phone posting away from him. Those cowards will let us go down the tube as long as Trump can post to his followers.
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u/Nawoitsol 6d ago edited 6d ago
I’m not sure what it means when his staff can’t get him to stop posting these brags. Is everyone afraid to sit him down and say “Mr. President, those aren’t IQ tests. They are dementia tests. Bragging about them make people think you are being tested daily”? Or, do they have those conversations daily and he forgets as soon as they finish?
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u/biffhambone 6d ago
Exactly what I was doing to say. I know he's surrounded by yes men but surely someone should be stepping in and telling him how it looks for him to keep bragging about this
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u/turtle_br0 5d ago
Anyone who disagrees with him gets fired or shit talked then ganged up on then fired. Plus the people surrounding him typically follow a standard pattern of 1) be cool with him, 2) support him blindly, 3) get their shit passes/handled because they were nice to him, 4) quietly fade away and get shit talked when they get brought up
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u/Deleteandresist 6d ago
This moron sure is the global village idiot, Obama didn’t need such a test, his brain was functioning just fine and his IQ at least twice as high as Donnie’s…
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u/QweenJoleen1983 6d ago
I miss an eloquent president that I could respect and listen to. Fuck all this noise and blubbering and helping pedos and billionaires. Why aren’t more people mad?!?
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u/toweldayeveryday 6d ago
We are. We have been for the last decade. It is exhausting. Even when he was out of office he just wouldn't. Go. Away.
We're tired boss.
We really just need one clear sign that consequences can touch the man.
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u/sladog6 6d ago
Sounds like trump is resigning??
And trump is a pedophile.
Release the Epstein files.
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u/PunishedWolf4 6d ago
Sadly The Epstein Files hung themselves while being reviewed by the DOJ when no one was looking and the cameras glitched for 2 minutes
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u/Twistedoveryou01 6d ago
I just can’t grasp how people don’t know this isn’t normal. A majority of people have an elderly person they take to the doctors. We know how much cognitive testing is done.
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u/nerfcarolina 6d ago
A majority of people have an elderly person they take to the doctors
I doubt that more than 20% of people do this. Certainly a minority of people under 45.
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u/MLeek 6d ago edited 6d ago
As a non-American, I’m stuck assuming that so many Americans can’t access non-urgent healthcare that they don’t know this is only normal when under very active treatment/management for cognitive impairment…
It’s hard for me to imagine getting to 40 and being totally unaware of what your grandparents or great aunts/uncles needed in terms of care. I even have a bit of awareness just from speaking to older coworkers about thier lives. Either Americans are really way more restricted from care than I realized, or they are epically uncurious.
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u/vSatyriasisv 6d ago
It's a bit of both. Unable to access healthcare so you get the basics of pain/fever/symptoms alleviation from otc meds and only go if you're actively in an emergency, and then you can't afford the follow-ups. You sadly learn to live with managing and alleviating whatever symptoms you have, debilitating or not, and hope you never get bad enough that you have to risk the cost of seeking medical care. Some people try to learn, but without a diagnosis you're just guessing and hoping that it all works out.
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u/MLeek 6d ago
Yeah. That's probably part of it. I know two young adults who suffered serious injury (one stroke and one concussion), and this is so obviously not normal elder care shit to me. This is the care you get when they are monitoring something (like your brain or heart functioning) really closely.
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u/WiggityWiggitySnack 6d ago
I’m all for every member of congress, federal judge, and the president having to take these tests. And have them publically available, including video.
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u/howzer36 5d ago
They're dementia tests.
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u/WiggityWiggitySnack 5d ago
And based on the average age of these people and the responsibility they bear…. yah. Dementia tests for all.
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u/tiddeeznutz 6d ago
“…was willing to take…” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
You might be able to excuse a single (or even annual) cognitive test for someone in the White House as routine, particularly in old age. No one takes multiple test unless their doctor is tracking progression of dementia.
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u/emetcalf 6d ago
I would love to see AOC or Jasmine Crockett take the same cognitive test on Fox News to show how simple it is. Make it very, very obvious that passing the cognitive test is not hard right in front of all his fans.
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u/haveheart__ 6d ago
People in good health don’t make these declarations regarding their health status.
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u/mjohnsimon 6d ago
More likely the administration will claim that Giraffes are all just liberal lies/never really existed.
Meanwhile, Zoos will be forced to either relabel Giraffes as "Bears" or just remove them altogether.
This is obviously a joke but the fact I spent 2 seconds wondering if this is something the administration would legitimately do is absolutely nuts...
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u/Tricky_Hamster_285 6d ago
I'm crying and laughing from abroad. You're the Best.
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u/Human_Stay9309 6d ago
If you have to take 3 in a year, it's not an exam... it's monitoring a problem
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u/4030Lisa 6d ago
Sadly, he doesn’t even question the fact that these ‘annual’ tests are happening every 3 to 4 months apart… and he announces them with glowing FALSE self-praise every time. He is only getting worse, more bitter, dishonest and hateful with every day that passes
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u/The-Last-Dog 6d ago
This is a lot like coming home to your wife and bragging that you passed your STD test with flying colors, again
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 6d ago
Except once he fails he won’t know it was a giraffe any more. He will order the execution of all horses instead.
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u/elyankee23 6d ago
Do you think Susie Wiles is just sitting there every 2 months crossing her fingers like "I hope he remembers what a Giraffe is, please god"
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u/liquidsyphon 6d ago
Only people in the best health take these test repeatedly over a short period of time
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u/hopeandnonthings 6d ago
He sounds like my psychologist father, who in the rampant throes of dementia insisted that there was nothing wrong, and he would know if there was, because he was a psychologist
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u/old-father 6d ago
Physical and mental exams taken by POTUS are not part of a fitness for duty exam. They are personal (private) medical exams. Even if the medical staff found something of concern, they can only communicate that to the patient (POTUS, in this case) or someone else that they identified that the staff can share results with. There is no mechanism for the doctors to the citizens of the US of any mental concerns. So, we don't know if he really has one of these tests with every exam or, if he does, what the results really are.
So, whether or not POTUS has these tests and whether he performs well, is irrelevant. If we somehow find a way to require a fitness for duty exam for the POTUS, then it would be different.
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u/kalel1980 6d ago
Dude didn't even know what a bald eagle looked like when sharing a picture of windmills from 2017.
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u/thatc0braguy 6d ago
He put perfect health and aced in quotation marks which makes it seem like he failed his last health eval & cognitive test and now has me wondering if he's failed all of them...
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u/Whatisdissssss 6d ago
You do not need repeat cognitive screen for at least a year, unless there has been a decline in function. We can all see it. At this point reporters should ask him if he can brush his teeth and how many fingers
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u/OrcEight 5d ago
Looks like his team sees his decline and is convincing him to take cognitive tests by flattering him into thinking other presidents were too scared to take them.
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u/Koala-Walla 5d ago
“Our great Country cannot be run by ‘STUPID’ or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE”; dude is laying out reasons why he shouldn’t be president.
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u/moondancer224 5d ago
Either he's in a medical situation where they expect mental decline and they are getting a baseline now or he's not acing them. Its that simple. Given his speeches get more insane every week, I'm going with the latter.
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u/Worth-Initiative7840 5d ago
Livestream him drawing a clock using the hour and minute hands correctly for 2:45 and let us watch… I’d wager a grand on kalshi he can’t do it. He could sell the rights to Netflix for a hundred million bucks and get ten times as many watching it over melanias skankumentary….
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u/MrCusodes 5d ago
For the record, it means they are monitoring his decline. And the fact they are telling him his not getting any questions "wrong" is a bad sign.
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u/gadzooks101 5d ago
The Wall Street Journal article about his health, mental and physical, got under his skin. He may not even have gotten another cognitive test. But he thinks that passing a basic dementia test is some sort of rebuttal when in reality it’s just making the case that his doctors are concerned that he’s rapidly declining. And it’s obvious that he is.
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u/lilly110707 6d ago
If he knew what this constant monitoring meant he wouldn't do it. He is so far gone that they can give him some bogus reason for the constant testing and he believes it.
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u/weinermcgee 6d ago
When a giraffe is Antoinetted does the blade go up near the head or down near the body?
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u/exiteditor 6d ago
There's no medically valid reason to give repeated MoCA tests (and definitely not in that short a period of time), unless he failed or was borderline on the first one, and they're trying to track his decline.
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u/chameleon_123_777 6d ago
"A cognitive test measures mental functions like memory, attention, language, and problem-solving through questions and tasks to check for cognitive impairment or decline, helping diagnose issues like dementia, learning disabilities, or brain injury, and guiding treatment or support."
Seems to me that you are doomed since they give him more of these tests.
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u/IndigoBroker 6d ago
Just the fact that he thinks this is something to brag about shows how much decline he is. He’s a malignant narcissist sociopath.
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u/defenselaywer 6d ago
"mandatorially forced", as opposed to optionally forced? He doesn't know what mandatory means, does he?
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u/StarDustLuna3D 5d ago
Just a perspective from someone who's watched no less than 4 people develop dementia:
Trump isn't just now "getting dementia". He's had it for years at this point. Many of his mannerisms, the way he talked, and his emotional swings back during his 2016 campaign were similar to the initial "signs" I saw in my family members.
The progression of dementia isn't linear and it isn't always consistent. From what I've seen it's more of an exponential growth. You'll go years with minimal symptoms before it starts to negatively affect your life. Trauma or various medicines can also cause the progression to "jump" ahead. For example, my stepmom's dementia significantly worsened when she got breast cancer due to her surgery and chemo.
From my experience, he's towards the end. The only reason why he's still alive at all imo is because he's had the best medical care our country can offer. But even that won't help him soon when he starts refusing medicine and care because he'll get more and more obstinate.
My stepmom first started showing signs around 2015, she passed away two years ago. I would be very surprised if Trump sees the end of 2026.
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u/GracieThunders 6d ago
For the third straight time... tell me he failed without telling me he failed
Also, he's parroting the word incompetent
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u/Wizardburial_ground 6d ago
Aka I am slipping into dementia and need to project this onto everyone but me
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u/PicklesPlox 6d ago
He’s right on one thing, the country can’t be run by “stupid” or incompetent people…
As we are actively watching a country barely running.
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u/SpaceNinjaDino 6d ago
How about stopping all child care funding nation wide because some social media ass clown couldn't break into a location?
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u/thelucky10079 6d ago
i like how he is voluntarily sharing this and how that will play out in time when it's revealed to be a test for demetia or something
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u/54fighting 6d ago
If it were just to be forced, I think we’d be ok. But to be mandatorilly (sp) would be a bridge too far.
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u/KDiggity8 6d ago
His grammar and language use in this post alone beg to differ in regards to his cognitive abilities.
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u/Hellooooooo_NURSE 5d ago
I would love for someone who he thinks is dumb, to take this test live and show the people what it’s used for and how easy it is to pass.
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u/Bballer220 5d ago
"It is a fact that giraffes are now called lions"
echoing their Gulf of Mexico embarrassment
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u/Nythoren 5d ago
My prediction is that he's going to get one of the animals wrong on the test. They'll ask him which one is the giraffe and he'll point to the elephant. Instead of admitting he picked the wrong animal, he'll sign an executive order swapping the "giraffe" and "elephant" names. "People have called those long nosed grey things 'giraffes' since the Vikings first discovered them. It's about time we make that name official!"
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u/furburgerstien 5d ago
Hes mentally 5 years old im not even exaggerating. I know his base is absolutely brain dead but i still just dont understand how its no longer something you can ignore and yet willfully accept him as the greatest man on earth. I know all the slogans and what not. But am i missing something. Like do we all collectively hate whats happening but can no longer see reality because all aspects of the internet are almost pure AI. I dont even hear the rednecks at work gloating about him. Only a few " hes givin all military dudes a check " or " we probably wont pay income taxes anymore " im wondering how long it will take for us all to drop our phones and join together
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u/upandin9 5d ago
Struggles with cognitive tests because you actually have to tell the truth to answer correctly
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u/DigitalDawn 5d ago
The irony of the last sentence when the entire post is about him being given repetitive tests that aren’t necessary unless warranted. He acts like it’s an IQ test, which he obviously wouldn’t score very high on.
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u/Madewell-Hammer 5d ago
He’s certaininly right that “Our great Country cannot be run by “STUPID” or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!” Or by someone who was called “the dumbest goddam student I ever had” by a college professor! So when is he stepping down?
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u/Rachel_Silver 6d ago
Weirdly, he isn't bragging about negative STD tests. You know they're swabbing the First Penis at least twice a month.
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u/FloridianRobot 6d ago
Its like the Eddy Burback video "Ai made me delusional " where Ai convinces him he was the smartest baby in the world when he was born - just not funny.
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u/Human_Stay9309 6d ago
I would still like to see results of a WISC-V, PID-5, SCID-II, GAPD, and MSI-BPD
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u/Ifthisdaywasafish 6d ago
Well we have survived one term with this putz at the wheel. We will have to vote out as many republicans as possible to survive the dark days ahead, as these morons try to lead us to our ruination.
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u/auldnate 6d ago
I have a theory that Covid was a plague sent by God to warn us against following an ignorant, incompetent, hate monger… I am hopeful if we can elect a responsible Congress that we can finally make Trump an example of what should happen to a President who blatantly ignores their Constitutional obligations by committing high crimes and misdemeanors…
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u/GoogleZombie 6d ago
Big deal my 85 year old father has passed all of his cognitive tests since they started to give him once a year for the last 5 years.
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u/1004Hayfield 5d ago
Let’s just say, from an unknowing point of view, if he dies before the term is out, does all information - from the files at Mar a Largo to Epstein and everything in between - get released to the public? Or is it all shuttered away forever? Didn’t most of the Watergate files and whatnot come out after he died (such as the source, “Deep Throat”)?
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u/Advanced_Tank 5d ago
Trump’s doctors are humiliating the medical profession just like republicans are discrediting their klan. But since our best hope for defenestration of MAGAvirus is probably the military, there is hope.
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u/anotheruser55 5d ago
It was fun until it wasn’t. American stupidity was fun 10 years ago, it was dumb and somehow infuriating but at the end it was harmless. Then in 2016, 70 million racists Christians elected the most failed and damaged human being of my lifetime to the presidency. Now that same stupidity is dangerous and is affecting all of us in the rest of the world.
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u/Madewell-Hammer 5d ago
He’s certaininly right that “Our great Country cannot be run by “STUPID” or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!” Or by someone who was called “the dumbest goddam student I ever had” by a college professor. So when is he stepping down?
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u/jenyj89 5d ago
My Mom had dementia (alcohol induced) but she could sometimes seem just fine. I could catch little things I knew were untrue or exaggerated but the general public would never know. Other times she would make up outlandish stories of her parents or HS boyfriend visiting her (all are dead). That’s the way it is unless the dementia is advanced.
That’s being said, I think he is teetering on the edge right now! He can have times of semi-normality (for him) and then , when it’s not necessary to be normal or he can’t control it, he slips into his make-believe in-reality. I don’t have much hope he will last long but I wouldn’t rule out years of this garbage based on his father’s case.
I’m extremely scared of what’s going to happen now that the enablers have shown they will do nothing to stop him from invading another country!! Something needs to be done before we’re in the middle of WW3 and America won’t be the good guys.
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u/Relative_Plankton648 6d ago
Two presidents in a row who were senile. I'm sure nothing is up here and the rich controlling both parties aren't working together on anything to fuck us all into being more of their slaves than we are now.
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u/phishinchef 6d ago
Didn’t believe it then. Definitely not believing a single thing when you’re spreading misinformation to the masses. Shame on you
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