• Aeao@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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?

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      20 hours ago

      They could also be lying to him what the test really is because he would refuse a dementia test otherwise.

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      20 hours ago

      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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      1 day ago

      a live telacast of everyone in congress doing dementia screenings would be fantastic imo

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    19 hours ago

    Good lord, he doesn’t know how to be discreet about anything. Every topic is a chance for him to try to show off. No one likes a braggart, and no one takes a transparent braggart seriously.

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    2 days ago

    Aww bless him, that’s just what his people told him the test was for. He doesn’t know any better.

    😂

    😭

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    2 days ago

    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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    2 days ago

    There is some clip from this where he’s like “Hippo, lion, tiger. Crocket couldnt do that. It gets very hard at 10.”

    Bruh he’s literally being asked to list just any fucking animal he can. Like… this is a test for 3yos.

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      You had the spirit of the quote:

      “The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”

      He’s naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him!

      Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored.

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        It would be literally the most hilarious in the history of US politics if it wasn’t such a horrible reality we’re in.

        If you wrote something this absurd into a book, your editor would make you rewrite it.

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It’s actually a test for dementia patients, to gauge how severe their disease is. That he’s being asked to take it at all is… not good.

      Though I’m not really sure if I would prefer him lucid or impaired. It’s not like he was a good person when he was in full command of his faculties.