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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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My Dad passed away from from dementia, and he was deep into it before the tests finally officially confirmed it. Literally EVERYONE around him absolutely knew it, but so much of the test had to do with numbers - telling time, adding numbers, etc. - that he did deceptively good on it. He never had a problem with numbers, right up to the end. He had been a Mathmatics major in college, and was hard-wired for numbers. Even dementia couldn't disturb that. I saw a 60 minutes piece on Tony Bennett, and he was exactly the same way with music.
So just because you pass the test, doesn't mean you aren't already showing strong symptoms of dementia. I've never taken the test, and neither has my mother. You only take it when someone suggests that it's a good idea because you've been showing symptoms. Of Trump is taking it, it's probably because those around him are becoming alarmed at his behavior.
Okay so this is the second time he’s done that right?
He’s confused a dementia test for an IQ test… twice…
Is that not a sign he might have dementia or something? He should at least remember us making fun of him for it the first time right?
This is an honest question btw. Am I’m missing something? It’s happened twice now?
I mean it could just mean he has incredibly low IQ, maybe?
Or both
They could also be lying to him what the test really is because he would refuse a dementia test otherwise.
The thing with IQ or any cognitive test, is they’re only administered when there’s a call for one.
If trump was behaving like a normal man his age, then there wouldn’t likely be a cognitive test. Just like how most people who get an IQ test are only tested if they’re either exceptionally advanced or exceptionally behind in their learning.
Yet he’s either too demented or too cognitively slow to realize that the fact his doctors want tests means that something seems wrong to them.
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Remember the halcyon days when this would have automatically been assumed to be an Onion article? I remember...
Pepperidge farm remembers
💯he has dementia.
The related stories are just as funny/tragic:
5 words? oh the humanity
And he couldn't even remember them, so he glanced around the room and came up with person, woman, man, camera, TV.
And... recalling the words later on in the test... is part of the test. Uh oh
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I do not drink alcohol. The day this guy stops talking I will go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of Champagne and drink it alone.
DRINK WATER.
that will be the worst hangover. Drink a lot of water with that.
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If you don't drink, can I recommend basically anything but champagne? Its not good tasting, get a sweet wine or something else instead.
There's other varieties of Champaign that aren't Brut
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My wife and I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift. The day it happens is the day we uncork the bottle.
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I really think AOC should take him up on this offer and demand it's broadcast live.
a live telacast of everyone in congress doing a dementia screening would be fantastic imo
Is this consistent misunderstanding of his more indicative of his IQ or his dementia?
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Doctor: Draw a clock.
Trump: sweating profusely
If he found the cognitive function test very hard...
Isn't this the second time this exact thing has happened?
Yeah but he didn't remember the first time.
Yeah, this is Trump's second "annual visit" to Walter Reed hospital.
Different thing. During his first term, he claimed to have aced a certain cognitive test his doctors gave him. When questioned about it, it sounds like he got the MoCA test, which you can see here:
https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf
Yeah, that's not a test an adult takes when your doctor thinks everything in your brain is fine.
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Yep, and despite all that and his first term half the US voters still figured he'd be a great President.
But he could totally identify which one was the elephant, and didn't confuse it with the rhino or the camel even once. I'm pretty sure that qualifies anyone to be the bigliest president.
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Just another stupid story to distract from the Epstein files.
Tbh, those tests are normally done when you already have issues to determine the severity, and his narcissism does not allow any other message than "perfect score", so i would be more concerned about that his immediate surroundings wanted him to have an MRI and dementia screenings.
Maybe Trump got a perfect score for dementia. You know, 100% dementia.
He's got the best dementia. It's so hot. Everyone is saying how great his dementia is.
His test came back positive!
That's what I said the first time he bragged about his doctors saying that he doesn't have dementia: I don't think people without indicators need in-depth screenings in the first place.
You genuinely couldn't make this shit up, could you?
Also, I hate that I now read quotes from him in his voice. I want it out of my head.
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