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Trump says that he passed EVERY question on his cognitive test.

Trump took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a widely used screening assessment for detecting cognitive impairment. The MoCA is a one-page 30-point test administered in approximately 10 minutes.

The MoCA assesses several cognitive domains:
  • The short-term memory recall task (5 points) involves two learning trials of five nouns and delayed recall after approximately five minutes.
  • Visuospatial abilities are assessed using a clock drawing task (3 points) and a three-dimensional cube copy (1 point).
  • Multiple aspects of executive function are assessed using an alternation task adapted from the trail-making B task (1 point), a phonemic fluency task (1 point), and a two-item verbal abstraction task (2 points).
  • Attention, concentration, and working memory are evaluated using a sustained attention task (target detection using tapping; 1 point), serial sevens (serial subtraction task; 3 points), and digit span forward and backward (1 point each).
  • Language is assessed using a three-item confrontation naming task with low-familiarity animals (lion, camel, rhinoceros; 3 points), repetition of two syntactically complex sentences (2 points), and the aforementioned fluency task.
  • Abstract reasoning is assessed using a describe-the-similarity task with 2 points being available.
  • Finally, orientation to time and place is evaluated by asking the subject for the date and the city in which the test is occurring (6 points).
 
You don't pass the questions on a screening test. They're not pass/fail in that sense. By definition the subject can't know, anyway. If I ask you the time, and you get it wrong, you believe you were right.
 
Variant said:
I'm glad the president can pass a basic cognitive test and knows at a minimum what year it is and how to tell time on an analog clock.
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Hell, if he can walk, not fall up a flight of stairs, read from a teleprompter, take questions and answer without a cheat sheet, not stare off into space for minutes at a time, he's way the hell ahead of the last democrat who occupied the White House.
 
Nickyjo said:
Perhaps the next cognitive test should include questions on how to close an umbrella.
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It is something that people without severe cognitive impairment seem to be able to figure out.
 
Integrityrespec said:
Hell, if he can walk, not fall up a flight of stairs, read from a teleprompter, take questions and answer without a cheat sheet, not stare off into space for minutes at a time, he's way the hell ahead of the last democrat who occupied the White House.
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Trump sounds like an addled fool when he takes questions so I wouldn't brag.

The current administration can't seem to keep itself from threatening Greenland. I don't remember policies so stupid when Biden was in office.
 
And just think, 98% of his followers can't pass the test.
 
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