Last week Donald Trump had his second “annual check up” since taking office, where he took a test commonly used to measure mental decline. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCa) is a one page inventory doctors use to quickly determine if their patients are showing signs of memory loss or dementia. The seventy-nine-year-old Trump bragged to reporters about his own high score while trash talking about the “low IQ” of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), age 36, and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), age 44, whom he suggested wouldn’t do well on such a tough assignment.
“One of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. I had the highest score. And that made me feel good." In fact, between five and ten percent of test takers receive the highest possible score of 30. While the questions may challenge some, the average third grader could tackle most of them.
Can you name these animals?
Copy this cube as accurately as you can.
Draw a clock with the hands showing the time to be 11:10
Trump said that the first few questions were fairly easy but then get “very hard.” For example, in one task you hear a sequence of five unreleated words (e.g "face, velvet, church, daisy, red") and must then repeat them back in proper order, and there is a similar task with sequences of numbers. Judge for yourself. Here’s an overview of the complete test.
It’s good to know that our President is not demented but worrisome he thinks himself a “very stable genius” whose perfect score on the MoCa qualifies him as an intellectual heavyweight.
In fact, Trump seems less demented that delusional, surrounding himself with sycophants and courtiers chosen to confirm that, whatever nonsense he may be spouting, he is always the smartest person in the room.
