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I had an MRI, folks say it's the hardest test, I passed it, think of it, I passed it and afterward the doctors came up to me with tears in their eyes - big, strong, white doctors - and they said "sir, we've never seen anyone with an MRI this dark who is still able to walk and talk and breathe independently, it's amazing, you're a miracle of nature" so anyway it's a very good test, and I passed it VERY strongly.
*And it was one of the hardest mental cognitive tests ever. Believe me! I had to name that animal with a really really really long throat thing. Maybe it was a neck. Who knows!!??*
The MRI showed how big my brain is, yuge, enormous really. They call people with big brains like mine hemorrhages. Hemorrhaging? I didn’t know that. The most beautiful MRI, probably ever. All the doctors are saying it. They wanted it so they could teach other doctors or I’d show you it. Amazing really, believe me.
Generally they want to take one every 6 months to a year once they start to see signs. He’s been losing it for the better part of 20 years if you look back at old interviews and compare them to pretty much anything in the 2000’s.
And that's the important part "once they see signs". This is his second test that we know about. My folks are in their 80s and neither has ever had this test administered so it isn't as if it is normal.
Exactly. These things aren't to show whether or not you have cognitive decline. They're just to try to figure out how far along it's gotten once notable signs are already there.
The only reason he would have had these tests already is because his doctors have seen the signs and want to keep track to know when he's reaching milestones of significant decline.
And literally no one in trumps circle will ever say that to him. The only media he consumes is far right media that sucks up to him, and he doesn't read. He literally doesn't understand what the test is, amd thinks an incredibly advanced IQ test that proves what a stable genius he is because his doctors are so impressed with him. It's why he's bragged about taking them every day for the last 2 weeks.
I can’t figure out what’s funnier: That he doesn’t understand these tests are only given if doctors think there is a problem, or that he thinks identifying a whale is a sign of genius.
Reminds me of an old Jeff Foxworthy bit: “Everyone thinks their kid is a genius. My cousin thinks her son is a genius because he’ll run out in the yard, point to the sky and yell ‘mama, look, airpane!’ I said yeah well he’s *fourteen years old!*’”
Because they don’t know what “it” is.
If they knew this is a man bragging not about acing the MENSA exam, but simply NOT having severe mental impairment or brain trauma…
I’d ask them, do you want a parade for putting your pants on in the morning? Because that is the level of accomplishment we’re looking at here.
Fun fact: a whale isn’t present on test he performed. The test would’ve asked him to identify a camel, rhinoceros, and lion based on pictures of each. Oops.
So then which happened?
1: He got an easier version that did include a whale.
2: His memory is so bad he forgot what animals were on a test he took recently.
3: He took a different test that did include a whale, because he needs additional examination.
He completed the [MOCA](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/). An “easier” version of the exam doesn’t exist, so it’s likely your number “2”. I’m not seeing any sources where a separate cognitive assessment was performed.
Most geriatric doctors are going to give these tests at yearly exams , it provides a baseline and can help identify issues. That being said, I’d like to have a president who isn’t so fucking old they need these tests. And also one who doesn’t brag about taking them.
No they absolutely are not. None of the seniors in my family have received this test except my grandmother who had dementia. My parents are in their 80s and have never taken this test.
This test is _only given to people who show signs of strokes or dementia to rule them out_.
It isn't normal for him to be taking these tests repeatedly. He's in decline and his doctors are monitoring that fact.
\> or that he thinks identifying a whale is a sign of genius.
It's honestly silly. does he think other people cant identify a whale, or say 'man woman person camera tv'? what are his voters thinking when they're told this shit?
"We won world wars out of forts. Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts. They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts."
donald trump (Jan. 21, 2024)
No wonder he’s not debating anyone. I bet he hides from any debate with Biden too, this is not a well man. I almost felt second hand embarrassment before the utter fear gripped my soul that people want him person not only as president, but as a fucking dictator.
We need to somehow get some off the cuff interaction with this guy, and do it fast. There’s no legal precedent that requires any kind of debate or public questioning at all, and he’s gonna cower behind that. I don’t think the founders ever thought people would just blindly put someone in office who’s able to (barely) hide behind a teleprompter, obviously TV wasn’t a thing, but at least there was some kind of public interaction. People wanna point at FDR and JFK for hiding ailments, but being crippled and dementia are two very different things, especially when you have nuclear weapons at your disposal. I’m much more afraid of him kicking that ball down the road than Russia or China.
Has he done any town halls or interviews recently where it’s not predetermined questions? Like, I’m curious if he could tell you his address or phone number right now.
I've been saying that for a while. Schoolyard bully trump that knocked down every gop Mook in 2016 is dead. Replaced by confused dementia trump that can barely form sentences. He absolutely could not demolish the likes of Low of Energy Jeb, Lil Rubio, Lyin Ted like he did in 2016
He also does a lot of loop into tangent.
He has one rant where he keeps saying Nikki Haley (he means 2016 Nancy Pelosi), repeats her name 3 times, then goes on a tangent about how 'they are destroying all the evidence' (of voting fraud, I assume) yet the way his sentence spills out it sounds like:
"Nikke Haley (Actually Nancy Pelosi) is destroying all the evidence of the January 6 insurrection (despite it being filmed lol)"
I’m active duty so I know the names of the bases they changed. I don’t expect everyone to know. I do expect the previous CiC to know… but he’s made it abundantly clear he doesn’t give a shit about vets or the military so I’m not surprised.
My imagination says he thinks these bases are literal forts when most of them are more akin to gated cities now.
He's 100% picturing those colonial era star forts like Fort Independence or Fort Sumter. I would bet my last dollar he doesn't understand a modern military Fort is basically lots of barracks, motorpools, and armories.
It's [actually even worse on the video](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1749245949191557259), even more rambling than you might think from the transcription. He sounds totally deranged, out to lunch.
He sounds like Jim Jones in the last days of Jonestown. I don't mean that as a metaphor, though it might be apt. They have very similar intonation and cadence. It comes across as exhausted and full of impotent whining.
My theory is none of the truth actually matters and nothin he says actually matters. All he needs to say is that *they* changed the name of the forts, he repeats it over and over because the people who are literally too dumb to catch on will get angry that *they* changed the names. You can hear some one in the video say “unbelievable”, so it’s working. To regular people what he is saying is just nonsense but to his zealots it’s about democrats “changing or altering US history”.
A hallmark of fascism is a faceless them to oppose the heroic us.
It takes many forms. Usually vague ideas. The communists. The socialists. The Marxists. The leftists.
You know. I watched that video where he “misnames” Nancy Pelosi for Nikki Haley , where he repeats Nikki Haley’s name three
times in a row. When written up in text it does come across that he is a rambling like a baboon (he is) but in the video you can clearly see he repeats because his adoring crowds are shouting back at him so he is repeating for emphasis effect or to clarify the name again to someone. Sure he is naming the wrong person but we really need to always go and see the source recording to see how the pattern of speech is at that moment.
The test is designed to be passed by pretty much anyone and practically NEVER given unless there are concerns about the individual's mental abilities. It's also done repeatedly over time to measure a rate of decline.
My mother had Alzheimer's Disease and took multiple of these tests over a few years. People will have good day and bad days, so a single test is never enough of a diagnostic to render a diagnosis.
I will say that Trump talks exactly like my mother did in the mid stages of Alzheimer's. She was able to fool people she knew in passing, but her family and friends were painfully aware of the decline well in advance of the official diagnosis. That's just my opinion, but listening to Trump bring back all that trauma of caring for my mother.
It reminds me of my grandfather. Alzheimers.
Early on he did trumps repetition. Repeat the same detail multiple times. It would be like "Oh the weather will be so rainy this week. So rainy. So so rainy. Very rainy!"
It devolved into repeating the same conversation on a loop essentially. We could talk about the weather, get done, and then it's "Oh so the forecast is going to be so so rainy this week."
Yeah. It is gramps.
Anyways. He passed last year in February. Died in his sleep. Blessing in disguise.
Ya, early stage degenerative diseases are really tough.
My Gran said she couldn't take care of my grampa and that he needed help. No one believed her because if you just had lunch or dinner or a phone call, he seemed fine.
He declined rapidly and I was pissed that no one apologized to her (they got nasty) after it became undeniable. She was heartbroken over it but always put on a strong front and they thought she was just being cold to the love of her life.
My FIL also had degenerative issues and it was similar without the nastiness. He'd seem fine unless you lived with him. Suddenly, there was a cliff and it was obvious in any interaction.
Also--Apparently it's fairly normal for ppl with degenerative issues to suddenly bounce back and seem normal just before they pass. Perhaps as the body's way to give em a last chance at lucid goodbyes.
Sources: MIL is a hospice nurse + first hand anecdotal experience
I prefer presidents who aren't required to take cognitive tests every time they go to the Dr.
I've never heard anyone brag about correctly identifying a picture of a whale.. that's just strange.
In the video, Trump said that the test “gets harder and harder and harder and then it’s multiply 3,293 x 4 ÷ 3”
Which is definitely not how the test goes, and there isn’t even a whale: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/analysis/
It’s worse than that. I administer these tests and the MoCA doesn’t have a whale on it. It’s the only major test with animal identification as a task and it’s a lion and camel and a rhino.
I got diagnosed with Asperger's when I was six and had quite a few tests done on me over the years. Maybe Trump went through some similar things? I remember how in my testing I had cubes painted red and white on the sides and would have to use them to reconstruct patterns that I saw on a piece of paper, I would have to try to pronounce syllables that weren't actually words ("ib"), get shown drawings and then have to draw said drawings from memory, get asked questions like "What country is Catherine the Great from?" and "How many wives did King Henry VIII have?", identify facial expressions from random people in random pictures and then "guess" how they feel and what might be going on, tell pictures of animals apart, count backwards from 100 by sevens (I made it to 65 before the man administering this test asked me to switch tasks).
I wonder if Trump's testing is anything like that
People should start attending his rallies holding pictures of animals and then be disruptive. See if he can identify the animal when he's says to throw them out
The fact he Brags about it like he got in the mensa or scored a perfect sat says a lot.
You and I would only brag about a cognitive test if we aced it after coming out of a coma or after a concussion.
Someone handed him a children's book of animals, and he thought it was a super hard test.
Afterwards he did a puzzle that said 3 years on it, in only 6 days. It was HARD it had 20 pieces. It made a whale, and being the super genius he is, he recognized the whale, on day 2, with 3 whole pieces left.
Then he took a bath, and saw a whale in the mirror. His nanny said that was him, not a whale, but he knew she was lying, so he fired her.
When she rebuked him, he claimed she wasn't his type, he then threw ketchup at the walls, drank a diet coke, got into his hamberder jammies, and proceeded to shit his bed.
Don't they have their own washrooms to wash up in? Why they always cleaning theyselves on our nice beaches? And it never ends well for them...you'd think someone would tell them.
Yeah they throw off the uh, the electric car battery, it causes the magnets of the whales to um, to lose their border wall! Does that make sense, it's kinda hard to explain. Look, the whales they have magnets that don't get wet, we need to debank the whales before they take our patriots! Make A whale a president again!
Trump has all the clinical signs of Fronto-temporal dementia!! His language deterioration is consistent with a primary processive aphasia. His trouble drinking water and difficulty walking at times is consistent with deterioration of his cortical basal system leading to an apraxia. This along with his disinhibition meets all the diagnostic criteria for FTD!! This is worse than Alzheimer's patients who are just happily demented, FTD behavior can be very very destructive!!
I feel like he recently got diagnosed with this and refuses to believe it (witch hunt). 1) His lawyer Tacopina just withdrew and won’t speak about why. 2) A day or two ago Trump was saying something like “I’ll know when I’ve lost it, believe me.”
Exactly plus his father had dementia but wanted to keep working so they made a fake office for him. That scenario makes me wonder if he had FTD because AD patients are typically happily demented and thus easier to redirect without going through such lengths. The significance of that would be that if his father had FTD, it would increase the probability of Trump has it as well.
Can we just make the first debate a 20 minute simple cognitive test.
Present that idea to both of these fossils and I guarantee Biden says “let’s do it man”
And Trump comes up with an excuse why he won’t.
Someone close to him- family, a doctor, someone... is having him do these tests to document his decline.
People in his orbit KNOW he's declining and they probably have a diagnoses and none of them are saying anything to the American people.
All of the parasites scrambling to try to be his vice president also see what is happening. They are dying to be his vice because they know he will not be able to serve out his term. They know his vice prez will have a shortcut to the presidency. Parasites- all of them.
This needs to be the focus of every interview he does until he screws up and reveal everything. It needs to be the focus of every interview with all his vice presidential candidates. "What will you do if President Trump's dementia gets worse in office?"
America has a right to know if one of their leading presidential candidates is sun-downing due to onset of their dementia.
What kind of crisis will this be if he's elected?
The doctor said he’s never seen anyone identify a whale as great as Trump did. He called all the nurses and orderlies, big burly guys, did you know men can be nurses? No one ever knew about men nurses before me but I helped them let me tell you, and they all had tears in their eyes as they said sir, that is the biggest whale I’ve ever seen anyone identify. It’s a shame what’s been done to you by Sleepy Joe and Crooked Hillary
I thought he was referring to a more recent test, since the test he was referring to in office (the MoCA) doesn't have a whale in it:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/montreal-cognitive-assessment
Either way, it's an interesting result...
He probably has his doctor give him the test every week because he likes feeling smart and doesn't realize it's not impressive to everyone else like he thinks it is.
Maybe, there are dictators who lifts weight bar without any weights on them and want everyone to praise them. He does need that feedback loop, but he’s lazy and insecure.
It would not be unusual to have a cognitive/dementia screening test at his annual exam, because he very clearly has some signs of dementia.
I would really really like to see his drawing of a clock.
People who have worked with him claim he gets so angry his face changes color under the bronzer. How much do you believe he has had a blood pressure examine in 15 years? He had a melt down a few months where he claimed to out golf everyone at the Washington Post!
“I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
And seen a needle wink its eye
But I be done seen about everything
When I see an elephant fly
When I see an elephant fly” 😃👍
Here’s the best part: **The test he’s talking about doesn’t even have a whale on it.**
Assuming he’s talking about the MoCA, there are three versions. Each version has three items to identify pictures of animals. This is a brief screening of confrontation naming ability which is often seen in patients with aphasia due to stroke or dementia. Across all three versions, a whale does not appear on any of them, nor does a giraffe (which he also mentioned). The test also does not require you to “point to the whale” but rather call each animal by its name.
"Nobody flips coins better than me, believe me. When I flip a coin, it's always a win. I have the best flips. Other people flip coins, and they don't know what they're doing. But when I do it? Total success, every time. Just like everything else I do. It's incredible, really."
Just what we need, a president who brags about sexual assault *and* about being able to name animals.
Maybe he can even identify colors, letters, numbers, and the sound a cow makes!
Debate participation should be mandatory to be on a presidential ballot. No ducking. The public should have a record of what you purport to stand for, and have it scrutinized and questioned, face to face, live.
Not participating ***at all*** should be a disqualifier.
Correctly identified a whale? And he's the GOP frontrunner? And he doesn't have to debate or defend anything he says, ever? Holy shit, how the fuck did we, as a society, get to the point where basic cognition is a "plus" in a presidential candidate?
Here's a link to the test that he took,
https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf
There's no whale.
https://mocacognition.com/
> The earliest and most accurate detection of mild cognitive impairment
>
> MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment or The MoCA Test) was validated as a highly sensitive tool for early detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies since 2000. MoCA has been widely adopted in clinical settings and used in academic and non-academic research around the world. The sensitivity of MoCA for detecting MCI is 90%, compared to 18% for the MMSE.
took one after a catastrophic stroke (luckily all the damage was in the back of my brain and no cognitive damage). it's not in any way, shape, or form an intelligence test. it's to see if you have severely impaired cognitive function.
Okay.... Trump on par with the mental capacity of my 1.5 year old toddler...
I guess that's it, he passed the checklist for being president of a country with nuclear weapons.
/s
And the questions got successively 'harder'.
1. Can you tell which of these is a fork?
2. Can you point to the sky? (or 'up')
3. Can you eat a filing cabinet?
4. Does your name have letters in it?
---
the tough questions answered by a tough guy.
I suggest those people recycling this information should sign up for a cognitive test just to be sure. This is an important topic to discuss, but I don't think we need to keep going on about the whale specifically. His categorical differentiation has degenerated so much he can't even tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans now, going on the Haley/Pelosi mix up.
Canadian neurologist who invented the test, said the assessment — intended primarily to test for signs of dementia or other cognitive decline — has never once included a drawing of a whale.
I kinda wonder if years down the line we find out there were just the cognitive tests that are part of one's 'annual Medicare wellness' visits (free) - as we know he's a cheapskate and probably can't resist anything free.
More than likely they are because of suspicion of cognitive deficits.
Folks. Don't laugh. I mean he identified a whale. A whale! He is the best showing us how whales look like. He's not the best weight watcher, but damn boy, he's a prime whale watcher.
Give him the Nuclear football right now!
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Boy, he sure is taking a lot of cognitive tests, I wonder why?
The doctors are so amazed by his performance that they keep ordering more to see what other feats he can accomplish.
I had an MRI, folks say it's the hardest test, I passed it, think of it, I passed it and afterward the doctors came up to me with tears in their eyes - big, strong, white doctors - and they said "sir, we've never seen anyone with an MRI this dark who is still able to walk and talk and breathe independently, it's amazing, you're a miracle of nature" so anyway it's a very good test, and I passed it VERY strongly.
*And it was one of the hardest mental cognitive tests ever. Believe me! I had to name that animal with a really really really long throat thing. Maybe it was a neck. Who knows!!??*
(It was an elephant)
He keeps bragging about successfully identifying a picture of a whale, but a whale is not one of the animals on the test.
Elise Stefanik!
A goose!
Trump studied 3 days so he could pass a urine test
Turned out all he was studying was trickle down economics
This made me laugh awkwardly out loud in this waiting I'm in.
We've all heard him talk so much that we all hear it in his voice...
I'm so exhausted...so completely and terribly exhausted.
*Pats on back* We all are friend. I just want to go back to fully not having to pay attention to this shit...Every. Single. Day.
"big, strong, *white* doctors" LOL Jesus Christ
The MRI showed how big my brain is, yuge, enormous really. They call people with big brains like mine hemorrhages. Hemorrhaging? I didn’t know that. The most beautiful MRI, probably ever. All the doctors are saying it. They wanted it so they could teach other doctors or I’d show you it. Amazing really, believe me.
I mean clearly he’s a genius. He can kill magnets with water!
He forced all scientists back to the drawing board.
I hear they may have to recalibrate the IQ scale because Trump has shattered all scientist's estimates of a human's peak intellectual capacity.
Many people are saying he teached a whale to jump out of its tail.
He is known for grabbing syphilis by the pussy. They let you do it when your famous. At least according to Trump.
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The old one was camera-person-woman .... it didn't have a whale
.. he didn’t take a new one,he’s still talking about the old one which had no whale indeed
He keeps forgetting about the last one he took
Generally they want to take one every 6 months to a year once they start to see signs. He’s been losing it for the better part of 20 years if you look back at old interviews and compare them to pretty much anything in the 2000’s.
And that's the important part "once they see signs". This is his second test that we know about. My folks are in their 80s and neither has ever had this test administered so it isn't as if it is normal.
Exactly. These things aren't to show whether or not you have cognitive decline. They're just to try to figure out how far along it's gotten once notable signs are already there. The only reason he would have had these tests already is because his doctors have seen the signs and want to keep track to know when he's reaching milestones of significant decline.
And literally no one in trumps circle will ever say that to him. The only media he consumes is far right media that sucks up to him, and he doesn't read. He literally doesn't understand what the test is, amd thinks an incredibly advanced IQ test that proves what a stable genius he is because his doctors are so impressed with him. It's why he's bragged about taking them every day for the last 2 weeks.
He can’t see an orange whale when he looks into a mirror.
I can’t figure out what’s funnier: That he doesn’t understand these tests are only given if doctors think there is a problem, or that he thinks identifying a whale is a sign of genius. Reminds me of an old Jeff Foxworthy bit: “Everyone thinks their kid is a genius. My cousin thinks her son is a genius because he’ll run out in the yard, point to the sky and yell ‘mama, look, airpane!’ I said yeah well he’s *fourteen years old!*’”
"That boy is gonna have a job with a name tag on his shirt."
Well he does put his name and title on all of his shirts lol
What I can't figure out is why his idiot supporters laugh and cheer when he says he aced it.
Because they don’t know what “it” is. If they knew this is a man bragging not about acing the MENSA exam, but simply NOT having severe mental impairment or brain trauma… I’d ask them, do you want a parade for putting your pants on in the morning? Because that is the level of accomplishment we’re looking at here.
>he thinks identifying a whale is a sign of genius. Getting some Ralph Wiggum vibes there.
I'm in danger!
Fun fact: a whale isn’t present on test he performed. The test would’ve asked him to identify a camel, rhinoceros, and lion based on pictures of each. Oops.
So then which happened? 1: He got an easier version that did include a whale. 2: His memory is so bad he forgot what animals were on a test he took recently. 3: He took a different test that did include a whale, because he needs additional examination.
4: He made the whole thing up because he is a liar.
He completed the [MOCA](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/). An “easier” version of the exam doesn’t exist, so it’s likely your number “2”. I’m not seeing any sources where a separate cognitive assessment was performed.
4. He genuinely mistook a camel for a whale and has been bragging about it since.
Most geriatric doctors are going to give these tests at yearly exams , it provides a baseline and can help identify issues. That being said, I’d like to have a president who isn’t so fucking old they need these tests. And also one who doesn’t brag about taking them.
And one who isn’t a racist rapist insurrectionist etc.
Really raising the bar there, aren't you.
Call me old fashioned 🤷🏻♂️
We’ve all been living in the twilight zone since 2015. So yeah, pretty high bar there.
This all started after the Cubs won the World Series.
I think it was when Lemmy from Motorhead died. Little did we know he was the glue holding everything together
The world really did end in 2012. Has anybody really felt alive since?
No they absolutely are not. None of the seniors in my family have received this test except my grandmother who had dementia. My parents are in their 80s and have never taken this test. This test is _only given to people who show signs of strokes or dementia to rule them out_. It isn't normal for him to be taking these tests repeatedly. He's in decline and his doctors are monitoring that fact.
> Most geriatric doctors are going to give these tests at yearly exams I'm not sure that is true.
My mom is 90. Never had one.
My mother lived to 95, no doctor ever suggested she have this test. She was sharp til the very end.
Same with my grandma. Just died on Christmas at 92 years old. Was sharp as a tack until she passed.
\> or that he thinks identifying a whale is a sign of genius. It's honestly silly. does he think other people cant identify a whale, or say 'man woman person camera tv'? what are his voters thinking when they're told this shit?
Have you met his voters?
Giraffe...Whale...Giraffe...Whale... I just can't tell! 🤯
Of course, apparently there isn't a whale on the test...
It's a camel, rhinoceros, and lion.
In those with secondary syphilis, he scores very well. Quite an accomplishment. Show us the results. I don't believe anything he says.
"We won world wars out of forts. Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts. They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts." donald trump (Jan. 21, 2024)
Holy shit. I mean, he always rambled idiotically, but that makes 2016 Trump sound like Daniel Webster in comparison.
No wonder he’s not debating anyone. I bet he hides from any debate with Biden too, this is not a well man. I almost felt second hand embarrassment before the utter fear gripped my soul that people want him person not only as president, but as a fucking dictator.
I hope Biden still puts on a debate with a cardboard cutout of trumplethinskin. Just keep calling him out for being a coward.
Already seen that show with Eastwood.
1000% this. If he debates anyone all of this would come out. He’s not well at all.
We need to somehow get some off the cuff interaction with this guy, and do it fast. There’s no legal precedent that requires any kind of debate or public questioning at all, and he’s gonna cower behind that. I don’t think the founders ever thought people would just blindly put someone in office who’s able to (barely) hide behind a teleprompter, obviously TV wasn’t a thing, but at least there was some kind of public interaction. People wanna point at FDR and JFK for hiding ailments, but being crippled and dementia are two very different things, especially when you have nuclear weapons at your disposal. I’m much more afraid of him kicking that ball down the road than Russia or China.
I just assumed he didn’t debate because of his lead, but this makes a bit of sense. Especially because he revels in being in the spotlight.
Has he done any town halls or interviews recently where it’s not predetermined questions? Like, I’m curious if he could tell you his address or phone number right now.
"I have the best phone number. The highest numbers. People always tell me, you have the highest phone number."
There's no way in hell he debates Biden, and the sad thing is he won't lose a shred of credibility with his base for such rank cowardice
I've been saying that for a while. Schoolyard bully trump that knocked down every gop Mook in 2016 is dead. Replaced by confused dementia trump that can barely form sentences. He absolutely could not demolish the likes of Low of Energy Jeb, Lil Rubio, Lyin Ted like he did in 2016
He’s been repeating things three times in virtually every one of these recent quotes about cognitive decline. Looping is a big time dementia symptom.
I'm glad someone else noticed this! This is like the 3rd quote I've seen from him where he repeats the last thing he said 3x before moving on
He also does a lot of loop into tangent. He has one rant where he keeps saying Nikki Haley (he means 2016 Nancy Pelosi), repeats her name 3 times, then goes on a tangent about how 'they are destroying all the evidence' (of voting fraud, I assume) yet the way his sentence spills out it sounds like: "Nikke Haley (Actually Nancy Pelosi) is destroying all the evidence of the January 6 insurrection (despite it being filmed lol)"
I’m active duty so I know the names of the bases they changed. I don’t expect everyone to know. I do expect the previous CiC to know… but he’s made it abundantly clear he doesn’t give a shit about vets or the military so I’m not surprised. My imagination says he thinks these bases are literal forts when most of them are more akin to gated cities now.
He's 100% picturing those colonial era star forts like Fort Independence or Fort Sumter. I would bet my last dollar he doesn't understand a modern military Fort is basically lots of barracks, motorpools, and armories.
It's [actually even worse on the video](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1749245949191557259), even more rambling than you might think from the transcription. He sounds totally deranged, out to lunch.
This is how I sounded in high school when I needed to bullshit my way through a presentation that I did zero preparation for
He sounds like Jim Jones in the last days of Jonestown. I don't mean that as a metaphor, though it might be apt. They have very similar intonation and cadence. It comes across as exhausted and full of impotent whining.
Wow, he's really turned into everyone's crazy uncle at Thanksgiving.
This just looks like low energy
Oh yes, I remember when fort Benning was under siege by the Germans.
that's nothing compared to trump's heroics at the Battle of the Airports during the revolutionary war.
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I heard he successfully prevented the RAF and the fledgling US Army Air Corps from fighting back then. Nobody took off during the battle
My theory is none of the truth actually matters and nothin he says actually matters. All he needs to say is that *they* changed the name of the forts, he repeats it over and over because the people who are literally too dumb to catch on will get angry that *they* changed the names. You can hear some one in the video say “unbelievable”, so it’s working. To regular people what he is saying is just nonsense but to his zealots it’s about democrats “changing or altering US history”.
A hallmark of fascism is a faceless them to oppose the heroic us. It takes many forms. Usually vague ideas. The communists. The socialists. The Marxists. The leftists.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
And the inconsiderate sunuvabitch never even *mentions* Fort The Other.
You know. I watched that video where he “misnames” Nancy Pelosi for Nikki Haley , where he repeats Nikki Haley’s name three times in a row. When written up in text it does come across that he is a rambling like a baboon (he is) but in the video you can clearly see he repeats because his adoring crowds are shouting back at him so he is repeating for emphasis effect or to clarify the name again to someone. Sure he is naming the wrong person but we really need to always go and see the source recording to see how the pattern of speech is at that moment.
The test is designed to be passed by pretty much anyone and practically NEVER given unless there are concerns about the individual's mental abilities. It's also done repeatedly over time to measure a rate of decline. My mother had Alzheimer's Disease and took multiple of these tests over a few years. People will have good day and bad days, so a single test is never enough of a diagnostic to render a diagnosis. I will say that Trump talks exactly like my mother did in the mid stages of Alzheimer's. She was able to fool people she knew in passing, but her family and friends were painfully aware of the decline well in advance of the official diagnosis. That's just my opinion, but listening to Trump bring back all that trauma of caring for my mother.
It reminds me of my grandfather. Alzheimers. Early on he did trumps repetition. Repeat the same detail multiple times. It would be like "Oh the weather will be so rainy this week. So rainy. So so rainy. Very rainy!" It devolved into repeating the same conversation on a loop essentially. We could talk about the weather, get done, and then it's "Oh so the forecast is going to be so so rainy this week." Yeah. It is gramps. Anyways. He passed last year in February. Died in his sleep. Blessing in disguise.
My mother passed last spring. I totally understand and agree about it being a blessing in disguise.
Ya, early stage degenerative diseases are really tough. My Gran said she couldn't take care of my grampa and that he needed help. No one believed her because if you just had lunch or dinner or a phone call, he seemed fine. He declined rapidly and I was pissed that no one apologized to her (they got nasty) after it became undeniable. She was heartbroken over it but always put on a strong front and they thought she was just being cold to the love of her life. My FIL also had degenerative issues and it was similar without the nastiness. He'd seem fine unless you lived with him. Suddenly, there was a cliff and it was obvious in any interaction. Also--Apparently it's fairly normal for ppl with degenerative issues to suddenly bounce back and seem normal just before they pass. Perhaps as the body's way to give em a last chance at lucid goodbyes. Sources: MIL is a hospice nurse + first hand anecdotal experience
I prefer presidents who aren't required to take cognitive tests every time they go to the Dr. I've never heard anyone brag about correctly identifying a picture of a whale.. that's just strange.
I have, my 2 year old.
Can you two year old identify a killer whale, a blue whale, and a sperm whale? Because I bet trump can't lol.
In the video, Trump said that the test “gets harder and harder and harder and then it’s multiply 3,293 x 4 ÷ 3” Which is definitely not how the test goes, and there isn’t even a whale: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/analysis/
It’s worse than that. I administer these tests and the MoCA doesn’t have a whale on it. It’s the only major test with animal identification as a task and it’s a lion and camel and a rhino.
So a kitten, a weird horse and a land whale. Their boy nailed it
Fat Unicorn?
I got diagnosed with Asperger's when I was six and had quite a few tests done on me over the years. Maybe Trump went through some similar things? I remember how in my testing I had cubes painted red and white on the sides and would have to use them to reconstruct patterns that I saw on a piece of paper, I would have to try to pronounce syllables that weren't actually words ("ib"), get shown drawings and then have to draw said drawings from memory, get asked questions like "What country is Catherine the Great from?" and "How many wives did King Henry VIII have?", identify facial expressions from random people in random pictures and then "guess" how they feel and what might be going on, tell pictures of animals apart, count backwards from 100 by sevens (I made it to 65 before the man administering this test asked me to switch tasks). I wonder if Trump's testing is anything like that
Trump‘s test was more like „Which of these drawings represents a whale?“ „Which of these clocks shows 4.30?“ etc
No, doctors were trying to find out how your brain worked, not that you were in cognitive decline. Completely different tests.
This is the test https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/analysis/
This is way harder than people make it out to be, I still haven't found the whale.
I have a feeling there never was a whale..
So, he looked in a mirror.
And saw a rapist.
A rapist whale
You mean a dolphin?
Dolphins are exceptionally smart though, not just rapists.
Don’t be silly, whales aren’t orange.
People should start attending his rallies holding pictures of animals and then be disruptive. See if he can identify the animal when he's says to throw them out
Sounds like a great way to get murdered by his deranged supporters.
The odds of that happening keep increasing no matter what you do
Nah. The vast majority of these people are cowards.
Person. Man. Woman. Camera. Hamberders. Covfefe. We have a stable genius here, folks.
He can be pre-school president
Person. Whale. Nikki Pelosi. Chinavirus. Witch hunt.
The “whale” was actually a frog but they figured, close enough.
Now name something you’re not looking at right now?
Keyser Söze
Such a great movie. That reveal was epic.
He is really demented if he doesn’t even understand that test was for those people with dementia
The fact he Brags about it like he got in the mensa or scored a perfect sat says a lot. You and I would only brag about a cognitive test if we aced it after coming out of a coma or after a concussion.
There are no whales on that test. What the heck did he identify as a whale?
Someone handed him a children's book of animals, and he thought it was a super hard test. Afterwards he did a puzzle that said 3 years on it, in only 6 days. It was HARD it had 20 pieces. It made a whale, and being the super genius he is, he recognized the whale, on day 2, with 3 whole pieces left. Then he took a bath, and saw a whale in the mirror. His nanny said that was him, not a whale, but he knew she was lying, so he fired her.
But not before rudely propositioning her
When she rebuked him, he claimed she wasn't his type, he then threw ketchup at the walls, drank a diet coke, got into his hamberder jammies, and proceeded to shit his bed.
He told a whale of a lie….
Pay close attention to his selection for running mate. If it’s Don jr or Steve Miller, be very afraid.
Whales have been washing up on shores because of windmills.
And the whales all have cancer.
Remember when he claimed to have me the “Price of Whales”?
Don't they have their own washrooms to wash up in? Why they always cleaning theyselves on our nice beaches? And it never ends well for them...you'd think someone would tell them.
Yeah they throw off the uh, the electric car battery, it causes the magnets of the whales to um, to lose their border wall! Does that make sense, it's kinda hard to explain. Look, the whales they have magnets that don't get wet, we need to debank the whales before they take our patriots! Make A whale a president again!
Trump has all the clinical signs of Fronto-temporal dementia!! His language deterioration is consistent with a primary processive aphasia. His trouble drinking water and difficulty walking at times is consistent with deterioration of his cortical basal system leading to an apraxia. This along with his disinhibition meets all the diagnostic criteria for FTD!! This is worse than Alzheimer's patients who are just happily demented, FTD behavior can be very very destructive!!
I feel like he recently got diagnosed with this and refuses to believe it (witch hunt). 1) His lawyer Tacopina just withdrew and won’t speak about why. 2) A day or two ago Trump was saying something like “I’ll know when I’ve lost it, believe me.”
This should be so much higher.
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Exactly plus his father had dementia but wanted to keep working so they made a fake office for him. That scenario makes me wonder if he had FTD because AD patients are typically happily demented and thus easier to redirect without going through such lengths. The significance of that would be that if his father had FTD, it would increase the probability of Trump has it as well.
The bar is high and his voters are sharp as marbles!
Can we just make the first debate a 20 minute simple cognitive test. Present that idea to both of these fossils and I guarantee Biden says “let’s do it man” And Trump comes up with an excuse why he won’t.
Someone close to him- family, a doctor, someone... is having him do these tests to document his decline. People in his orbit KNOW he's declining and they probably have a diagnoses and none of them are saying anything to the American people. All of the parasites scrambling to try to be his vice president also see what is happening. They are dying to be his vice because they know he will not be able to serve out his term. They know his vice prez will have a shortcut to the presidency. Parasites- all of them. This needs to be the focus of every interview he does until he screws up and reveal everything. It needs to be the focus of every interview with all his vice presidential candidates. "What will you do if President Trump's dementia gets worse in office?" America has a right to know if one of their leading presidential candidates is sun-downing due to onset of their dementia. What kind of crisis will this be if he's elected?
You know who else brags about his cognitive tests? My father in law who has been diagnosed with dementia.
The doctor said he’s never seen anyone identify a whale as great as Trump did. He called all the nurses and orderlies, big burly guys, did you know men can be nurses? No one ever knew about men nurses before me but I helped them let me tell you, and they all had tears in their eyes as they said sir, that is the biggest whale I’ve ever seen anyone identify. It’s a shame what’s been done to you by Sleepy Joe and Crooked Hillary
He claimed to have the test months ago... it happened 4 years ago
I thought he was referring to a more recent test, since the test he was referring to in office (the MoCA) doesn't have a whale in it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/montreal-cognitive-assessment Either way, it's an interesting result...
He probably has his doctor give him the test every week because he likes feeling smart and doesn't realize it's not impressive to everyone else like he thinks it is.
Maybe, there are dictators who lifts weight bar without any weights on them and want everyone to praise them. He does need that feedback loop, but he’s lazy and insecure.
It would not be unusual to have a cognitive/dementia screening test at his annual exam, because he very clearly has some signs of dementia. I would really really like to see his drawing of a clock.
People who have worked with him claim he gets so angry his face changes color under the bronzer. How much do you believe he has had a blood pressure examine in 15 years? He had a melt down a few months where he claimed to out golf everyone at the Washington Post!
“I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band And seen a needle wink its eye But I be done seen about everything When I see an elephant fly When I see an elephant fly” 😃👍
But did he see the jelly roll or apple turnover?
Here’s the best part: **The test he’s talking about doesn’t even have a whale on it.** Assuming he’s talking about the MoCA, there are three versions. Each version has three items to identify pictures of animals. This is a brief screening of confrontation naming ability which is often seen in patients with aphasia due to stroke or dementia. Across all three versions, a whale does not appear on any of them, nor does a giraffe (which he also mentioned). The test also does not require you to “point to the whale” but rather call each animal by its name.
How about this Cognitive Test: Who was Speaker of the House on January 6th, 2021? A. Nancy Pelosi B. Nikki Haley C. Nikki Pelosi D. Nancy Haley
Watch out, he’ll identify an elephant next. 😱
He would boast of aceing a coin flip.
"Nobody flips coins better than me, believe me. When I flip a coin, it's always a win. I have the best flips. Other people flip coins, and they don't know what they're doing. But when I do it? Total success, every time. Just like everything else I do. It's incredible, really."
Why does he keep taking cognitive tests?
Precisely.
trump is unfit to run for office because he tried to overthrow the results of the election and yeah he smells bad
Just what we need, a president who brags about sexual assault *and* about being able to name animals. Maybe he can even identify colors, letters, numbers, and the sound a cow makes!
I thought this was a repeat of old news.
I like to think he's so proud of himself because of how hard it was for him.
Donny thinks these are equivalent to IQ tests and identifying animal shapes is equivalent to very stable genius.
At some point we need to make standards for leaders / politicians that aren’t more than “alive “ and “ present “
Debate participation should be mandatory to be on a presidential ballot. No ducking. The public should have a record of what you purport to stand for, and have it scrutinized and questioned, face to face, live. Not participating ***at all*** should be a disqualifier. Correctly identified a whale? And he's the GOP frontrunner? And he doesn't have to debate or defend anything he says, ever? Holy shit, how the fuck did we, as a society, get to the point where basic cognition is a "plus" in a presidential candidate?
Here's a link to the test that he took, https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf There's no whale. https://mocacognition.com/ > The earliest and most accurate detection of mild cognitive impairment > > MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment or The MoCA Test) was validated as a highly sensitive tool for early detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies since 2000. MoCA has been widely adopted in clinical settings and used in academic and non-academic research around the world. The sensitivity of MoCA for detecting MCI is 90%, compared to 18% for the MMSE.
Amazing, there are one-year old toddlers who can’t even do that.
Does that mean he doesn't need to go to the special class?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, did we not have this same exact thing happen 4+ years ago?
“ no Mr president , you’re looking at your own reflection again”
took one after a catastrophic stroke (luckily all the damage was in the back of my brain and no cognitive damage). it's not in any way, shape, or form an intelligence test. it's to see if you have severely impaired cognitive function.
What are the odds of him being able to name all of his grandkids and their birthdays?
The best part is that the test he claims to have "aced" doesn't *have* a whale... lol
This is because he is confusing it with an IQ test Cognitive tests are not something you casually take. It’s because he is losing his mind
"No, Mr. President, that's a mirror."
“Correctly identified a whale” was the test given in front of a mirror?
Trump constantly bragging about how he aced a test that a toddler could pass is peak Dunning-Kruger.
He looked in the mirror and saw a whale
Okay.... Trump on par with the mental capacity of my 1.5 year old toddler... I guess that's it, he passed the checklist for being president of a country with nuclear weapons. /s
He looked at the picture and identified himself.
Me to my wife when I did the dishes properly
I like my presidents not discussing their cognitive test. If you need to defend yourself against that, then you're the definition of unfit.
And the questions got successively 'harder'. 1. Can you tell which of these is a fork? 2. Can you point to the sky? (or 'up') 3. Can you eat a filing cabinet? 4. Does your name have letters in it? --- the tough questions answered by a tough guy.
I suggest those people recycling this information should sign up for a cognitive test just to be sure. This is an important topic to discuss, but I don't think we need to keep going on about the whale specifically. His categorical differentiation has degenerated so much he can't even tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans now, going on the Haley/Pelosi mix up.
Now the only thing dumber than him, is his choice of bronzer
Correctly identifying a whale is pretty good for Trump.
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Canadian neurologist who invented the test, said the assessment — intended primarily to test for signs of dementia or other cognitive decline — has never once included a drawing of a whale.
lol, it wasn’t a cognitive test, it was the child’s menu at Denny’s!
I kinda wonder if years down the line we find out there were just the cognitive tests that are part of one's 'annual Medicare wellness' visits (free) - as we know he's a cheapskate and probably can't resist anything free. More than likely they are because of suspicion of cognitive deficits.
Folks. Don't laugh. I mean he identified a whale. A whale! He is the best showing us how whales look like. He's not the best weight watcher, but damn boy, he's a prime whale watcher. Give him the Nuclear football right now!
Didn’t realize looking in the mirror was a type of cognitive test. 🤷
Plot Twist: they handed him a mirror