Trump Confesses That He Found Elementary School-Level Test ‘Very Hard’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-confesses-that-he-found-elementary-school-level-cognitive-test-very-hard/

https://archive.today/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fdonald-trump-confesses-that-he-found-elementary-school-level-cognitive-test-very-hard%2F

Also note: This is his super hard test

https://championsforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MOCA-8.1.8.2-English.pdf

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kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 155 pts · 303d (16 replies)

Maybe because he's a fucking moron

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 91 pts · 303d (5 replies)

He's too stupid to realize that going on and on about how difficult the test was that he aced does not make him look smart. He's too stupid to realize other people know what's on that test and just how straightforward it is. He's too stupid to understand that it's not an intelligence test. He's too stupid.

bagsy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 303d (1 reply)

Now do his supporters!!!

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 303d

I could completely believe passing this test is impressive to his supporters and that most of them would fail it.

Auli@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 302d

You know there was a whole game show about this.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 302d (1 reply)

So stupid....and yet, he got re elected, has the whole government living in fear and is stealing billions in corruption, without any consequences. Sure, he's stupid, and 78 million people who voted for him are geniuses.

niva@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 299d

Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the one that follows the fool?

crandlecan@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 303d (1 reply)

Don't forget old...

rayyy@piefed.social · 7 pts · 302d

Has little to do with being old. Bernie Sanders is old but he is sharp. The orange dolt never even approached average except in being a shit-head - he honed this skill.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 302d (5 replies)

Sure, if he's the moron, then what do you call the millions who voted for him?

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 302d (2 replies)

America has an education problem and it's been getting worse for decades, especially in the South and rural areas.

Professorozone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d (1 reply)

Yeah, but it's ok. The states will handle it as soon as the department of education is shut down.

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d

As long as the states follow the Republican Christian doctrine

The_v@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 302d

Assuming human intelligence naturally follows a normal distribution model plus add in confounding factors like: malnutrition, chemicals, abuse, etc. that are known to degrade human reasoning. Reasoning is further restricted by limiting access to education and extensive false propaganda. These factors flattens and shift the distribution curve to the left.

The millions of people who voted for him are morons what are easily manipulated by their ignorance and fear.

This has always been the Achilles heal of a democratic systems.

niva@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 299d

The bigger morons!

PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 303d

No "maybe" about it.

Lon3star@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 303d

It's an older response, but checks out

Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 303d (8 replies)

I want to know if the MRI was ordered before or after the "very hard" cognitive test..my grandfather's dementia was diagnosed as due to multiple infarctions and he lived a long time in memory care. Get the 25th ready

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 37 pts · 303d (3 replies)

The fact that such legal measures aren't used on so many of our representatives when they show obvious decline (or incompetence) shows that others behind the scene are gaining from keeping them in place as long as possible. This isn't a way to run a government.

applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 303d

It sure is a way to cling to power.

al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 303d

Watching McConnell fall because he can walk and talk at the same time is very depressing to me. Remember when ghouls would venture off and haunt a cave or abandoned graveyard?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 302d

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. Feinstein.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 303d

Why would they?

His base worships him. And miller et al already do whatever the hell they want. Just drag trump out to drool on camera and show proof of life a few times a month and then run the country themselves.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 303d (2 replies)

Make him smell peanut butter.

Cypher@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 303d (1 reply)
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 302d

Like 99% of Alzheimer's research.

ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 39 pts · 303d (4 replies)

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV

SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 303d (2 replies)

The best thing about that is that he wasn’t even remembering the words from the test, he was naming things he could see

troybot@midwest.social · 10 pts · 303d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 3 pts · 303d

Phone. Pillow. Darkness. Maybe monsters.

tisktisk@piefed.social · 5 pts · 303d

you def beat me to it, but I love the last bit too much sry

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 303d

Dementia test is hard - Trump

Redditsux@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 303d (3 replies)

Yeah he has early dementia.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 302d

He is 79. That's not early.

skozzii@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 302d

Considering how said the test got very difficult after the first few questions, yeah, I'd say Americans are in trouble.

Octavio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
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60d@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 303d

No one's ever got perfect, he said. He dares everyone that disagrees with him on policy to go up against his score.

Sounds like he's surrounded by sycophants telling him how smart he is.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 23 pts · 303d (2 replies)

"My IQ is in the 99.99th percentile!"

daannii@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 303d (1 reply)

It sure is. On the left side.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d

hemmes@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 303d (3 replies)

Yeah, this is definitely funny. But these aren’t the headlines that really get me feeling good. What really gets my going are the headlines that say a judge blocked another selfish, unconstitutional order, or when a MAGA supporter or member of the Republican Party in Congress realizes the greed is out of control and starts to buck back, when an institution or organization decides to push back against the bullshit and say no — I like those headlines the best. (can’t recall if we’ve truly seen that last one actually).

Because the reality is that Trump isn’t dumb. He’s a lying, cheating, asshole. Has been his whole life, every New Yorker knows that. And what he does know is that if he lies or cheats, and nobody does anything about it, he gets away with it, each time getting easier.

Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 303d (1 reply)
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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 303d

He knows the Church of the Subgenius mantra quite well - "Act like a dumbshit and they'll treat you like an equal" - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
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mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 19 pts · 303d

He truly is one of the dumbest people I've ever witnessed.

Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 303d

He loves the uneducated. They are as stupid as he is.

bluemoon@piefed.social · 13 pts · 302d

and the US school tests are the simplest in the world...

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 303d

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 303d (1 reply)

Can he read the phrase "go to jail"

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 303d
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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 303d (2 replies)

Didn't Donbald say it gets super-hard when the questions get up to 20 or 25 or something?

If we are talking about MoCA, there are only 11 questions on the versions I've seen. What is he even talking about when he challenges AOC and Jasmine Crocket to take the test? It's not a test to prove how smart you are, but he's there talking about how "low IQ" they are and how tough this cognitive exam is. It's not even close to the flex he thinks it is.

Someone needs to take the keys away from Grandpa....

bunnyBoy@pawb.social · 3 pts · 302d (1 reply)

The MOCA is scored up to 30 points with 26 being a 'normal' score. My assumption is he's talking about achieving that score is difficult, not getting that many questions correct.

Source : Someone else posted the test in this thread and it's at the top in the scoring instructions

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d

He continued, "Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don't think Jasmine– 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."

Indeed. But he used the word "questions", and so I don't know if in his addled brain he's confusing the score with the number of questions. I see 11 questions in the versions I could find.

Some Intrepid Reporter (TM) should ask him for an example of the type of questions you have at 10, 20, and 25.... :)

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 303d

Didn’t he do that in his first term as well?

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d (1 reply)

Trump: You voted for me because I am stupid like you!

CityPop@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 301d

He tells it like it is!

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 303d

Again‽

1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 302d (3 replies)

i know id fail math 100% need a calculator at all times.

IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 302d (2 replies)

I'm the same way. I can't do math in my head. Never have been able. My brain just wasn't wired that way.

1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 302d (1 reply)

im actually trying to find a good course on algebra because i want to learn calculus and algorithms.

IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 302d

Awesome. Good luck on the course. Never stop learning!

tisktisk@piefed.social · 4 pts · 303d

Person, woman, man, camera, TV...if you get it all right, you get an extra point
🤣

CritFail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 303d

He's got a certificate to show he hasn't got donkey brains to boot!

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d

"Camel or dromedary? That's a new one for me. That is apparently the name for a one-humped camel.

modern_drift@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d

I'm sure he has a serious condition and (if it was anyone else) I would say that should never be taken lightly.

But... They need to put him on stage with AOC and Crockett. Give the reps a college entrance exam and Trump a grade school one. See who scores better. He wants to keep calling them out, he needs to follow through.