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highplainsdem

(48,731 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:39 PM Jul 2020

Trump bragged tonight about passing a cognitive test. It might have been given if he'd had a stroke.

Tweet from Media Matters news director with video of that part of Hannity's show tonight, Trump on the phone to him:





Trump tells Hannity that he "very recently" "aced" a cognitive test: "I took it at Walter Reed, a medical center, in front of doctors, and they were very surprised"




If this was recent, it was probably the trip to Walter Reed that was never convincingly explained, the one that many suspect was due to Trump having had a stroke.


I read a number of tweets tonight mentioning that the type of cognitive test Trump's bragging that he "aced" to his doctors' surprise was probably what's given to stroke patients.


Quite a few people on Twitter have been pointing out that Trump's doctors being "surprised" -- his word -- that he'd "aced" a simple cognitive test isn't anything to brag about.

But you can hear how thrilled Trump was to be told he'd aced a simple test. And how convinced he is, in his own deluded mind, that Biden couldn't pass such a test.
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Trump bragged tonight about passing a cognitive test. It might have been given if he'd had a stroke. (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2020 OP
He probably paid someone to take it for him. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jul 2020 #1
One of the tweets about this: highplainsdem Jul 2020 #2
Mahalo for that tweet, hpd.. I ETA it to my post below bc Cha Jul 2020 #35
Is that the one where you have to be able to distinguish The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2020 #3
Yes, I believe that's the one PatSeg Jul 2020 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author moonscape Jul 2020 #27
well yeah and the questions were probably... Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #4
OMG, is he yarping about the MoCA Test again??? Grokenstein Jul 2020 #5
Here are five words for donnie bodybags to remember in order: drop dead, you f'n traitor. niyad Jul 2020 #13
But That was 2018! Let's see what ya got today, Treasonous ASSFACE, trump. Cha Jul 2020 #36
We all remember him bragging recently about how he "stunned" his doctors with his "stellar niyad Jul 2020 #6
... And what the fuck does that mean the doctors were surprised? PCIntern Jul 2020 #7
Great post - I learned something and had myself a good chuckle too! FM123 Jul 2020 #21
I would Disaffected Jul 2020 #28
Or: Show him a picture of a mushroom and ask if it's a giraffe or Buns_of_Fire Jul 2020 #32
My doctor would not have to give me a cognitive test. Jamastiene Jul 2020 #8
Sure...cognitive tests can be as simple as state your name, date & day and time Thekaspervote Jul 2020 #9
I recently read a novel, PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #20
Thanks. :) Hortensis Jul 2020 #40
See Donny run. Run Donny run. Blue Owl Jul 2020 #10
"Walter Reed, a medical center"..... which apparently has doctors underpants Jul 2020 #11
It's not a compliment... AleksS Jul 2020 #12
Pathetic: arousing feelings of sadness or pity captain queeg Jul 2020 #14
We're all surprised he passed a cognitive test too Generic Brad Jul 2020 #15
Cheated rpannier Jul 2020 #25
Oh, yes! You did a very good thing alphafemale Jul 2020 #16
They were probably surprised, alright. Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #17
I'm a nurse. I've never seen any medical staff "surprised" when someone passes a cognitive Cousin Dupree Jul 2020 #19
Yeah, he confabulated the actual trip misanthrope Jul 2020 #30
Aquaintence on a different polititical site was right near... electric_blue68 Jul 2020 #22
A stroke would explain his trouble walking down the ramp. tinrobot Jul 2020 #23
Funny how the doctors are always "surprised" rpannier Jul 2020 #24
Include it in the debates. keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #26
My Daddy had mini-strokes. You could see it hit and he would be totally discombobulated. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author marie999 Jul 2020 #31
In cards isn't the ace either the whistler162 Jul 2020 #33
In spades it's sometimes the 4th highest trump Victor_c3 Jul 2020 #39
trump LIES.. nothing to brag about in a LIE that Cha Jul 2020 #34
:) His niece, a psychiatrist, says personality disorder. Hortensis Jul 2020 #41
I said "ptui" after I named the president Jane Austin Jul 2020 #37
maybe he DID have a stroke mnmoderatedem Jul 2020 #38

highplainsdem

(48,731 posts)
2. One of the tweets about this:
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:46 PM
Jul 2020




Trump stumbles & spills his Walter Reed trip included a cognitive test. His trip was urgent, prob after he was incoherent & prob included a sequential MRI. He's clueless a/b how bad he sounds w/ "The Doctors were very surprised." His dementia is obvious & they are carrying him

Cha

(295,926 posts)
35. Mahalo for that tweet, hpd.. I ETA it to my post below bc
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 05:14 AM
Jul 2020

my post was along those lines.. course Tom Joseph said it better!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
3. Is that the one where you have to be able to distinguish
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:47 PM
Jul 2020

a camel from a hippopotamus? If they gave him a cognitive test at Walter Reed, somebody probably thought he was having a stroke or other problem affecting cognition. "Acing" that test doesn't mean you're smart; it only means that you don't seem to have suffered a certain kind of obvious brain damage. And he's probably lying anyhow; when they asked him which drawing was of a camel he probably pointed to the hippopotamus.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
18. Yes, I believe that's the one
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 11:32 PM
Jul 2020

"The doctors were surprised" like he was some kind of genius. As usual, he is full of shit.

Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
4. well yeah and the questions were probably...
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:48 PM
Jul 2020

What day is it?
What year is it?
Who is the President?

or something equally inane, specially devised for our genius Dear Leader (wink, wink)

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
5. OMG, is he yarping about the MoCA Test again???
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:48 PM
Jul 2020

The psychotic SOB was carrying on about this back in JUNE!




"In a White House meeting, Trump — unprompted — suddenly began waxing on about a cognitive test he took in 2018, boasting about how well he’d done, and how he’d been able to repeat five words in order. Then, he challenged Biden to take the same test.

It was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) test. Someone in the replies to this tweet (where you can see the test itself) describes it as “mostly a test to make sure that the subject isn’t actually a potted plant in disguise.” And Tiny Toadstool’s shrieking about it like it proves beyond all doubt that he is Best At Smart.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
36. But That was 2018! Let's see what ya got today, Treasonous ASSFACE, trump.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 05:16 AM
Jul 2020

TY for that tweet, Grokenstein

niyad

(112,435 posts)
6. We all remember him bragging recently about how he "stunned" his doctors with his "stellar
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:51 PM
Jul 2020

performance of a cognitive test, and challenged VP Biden to take one as well.

PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
7. ... And what the fuck does that mean the doctors were surprised?
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:53 PM
Jul 2020

I’ve been a clinician for 43 years now and seen between 65 and 80,000 individual patients and nothing surprises me in that sense. Perhaps he is referring to is that they brought him in because he couldn’t stream three words together in a sentence due to transient aphasia And he recovered quickly enough to be able to tell them that red and blue are colors and that the first odd numbers are one, three, five, seven.

Or perhaps they never seen a dick that look like a mushroom before. I mean, what the fuck do I know?

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
32. Or: Show him a picture of a mushroom and ask if it's a giraffe or
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:18 AM
Jul 2020

a hippopotamus. No medical reason, just to f**k with him.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
8. My doctor would not have to give me a cognitive test.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:58 PM
Jul 2020

He can tell I am cognitive without having to give me a test. If he did give me a test anyhow, he would not be the least bit "surprised," much less "very surprised," to find out I am cognitive.

Most of us can safely say this.

What is Trump's problem that his doctors are "very surprised" if he is cognitive during the part of the time when they tested him?

That is not something to brag about.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
20. I recently read a novel,
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 11:41 PM
Jul 2020
Pushback by John Stith in which the main character keeps on needing to go to an Emergency Room, and to do a rough test for brain damage they ask him several basic questions, including who is the President. After several such trips, he expresses concern that the ER doctor apparently needs his help in remember who is President. It's a hoot.

The novel itself is more serious, as it becomes clear that someone is trying to kill him. Great book. I'd recommend it.

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
14. Pathetic: arousing feelings of sadness or pity
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 11:27 PM
Jul 2020

So I guess trump isn’t pathetic because I feel no sadness or sympathy for him.

Cousin Dupree

(1,866 posts)
19. I'm a nurse. I've never seen any medical staff "surprised" when someone passes a cognitive
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 11:33 PM
Jul 2020

test. It doesn’t work that way. We’re gathering information. Bunker Boy sounds like an immature idiot when he talks like that.

electric_blue68

(14,623 posts)
22. Aquaintence on a different polititical site was right near...
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:22 AM
Jul 2020

by or actually in that hospital that day.

It was not a schedualed visit bc there was no kind of security pre-checks that you'd normally see.

tinrobot

(10,848 posts)
23. A stroke would explain his trouble walking down the ramp.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:25 AM
Jul 2020

One leg was kind of dragging. Strokes usually hit one side of the body or another.

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
24. Funny how the doctors are always "surprised"
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:35 AM
Jul 2020

The Doctors at Walter Reed were surprised
The Doctors at the CDC were surprised
The doctor who took his physical was surprised

Midnight Writer

(21,548 posts)
29. My Daddy had mini-strokes. You could see it hit and he would be totally discombobulated.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:57 AM
Jul 2020

Eyes distant, speech slurred, disjointed rambling, sometimes a drool. It may last a few minutes, maybe hours. Then he would gradually come back to himself. Mostly. Got worse over time.

I wonder if something like this prompted the Walter Reed trip.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
39. In spades it's sometimes the 4th highest trump
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 06:04 AM
Jul 2020

1) big joker
2) little joker
3) 2 of spades
4) ace of spades

Followed by the rest of the spades in descending order

Cha

(295,926 posts)
34. trump LIES.. nothing to brag about in a LIE that
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 05:08 AM
Jul 2020

".. the Drs were very surprised.." though. Idiot.

ETA! hpd


Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
41. :) His niece, a psychiatrist, says personality disorder.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:14 AM
Jul 2020

She apparently throws in the usual about the need for proper evaluation to figure out whatever else she believes is been going on with him for most of his life.

It certainly doesn't take a clinician to know he's a mental whackjob, though, which has been extensively documented -- by his craving for attention and legal problems -- over several decades.

Personally, I think we should use him as part of a test for functional ability in citizens.

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