What about that cognitive test Trump said he "aced" and was so “very hard”

Trump told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he “aced” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a 35-question test designed to detect early signs of memory loss and other mild cognitive impairment. Trump said the questions get difficult, and challenged former Vice President Joe Biden to take it — and claimed Wallace wouldn’t score as high as he did on it.

Wallace, however, said during the interview that aired on Sunday that he took the test himself, and said it is “not the hardest.” The host said the exam, which takes roughly 10 minutes to complete, includes a “picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant.”

But Trump called that a “misrepresentation. Because, yes, the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions.”

“Well, one of them was count back from 100 by seven,” Wallace said. “You couldn't answer — you couldn't answer many of the questions,” Trump said. “I'll get you the test, I'd like to give it. I'll guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions.”

Trump said he answered all 35 questions correctly. He told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on July 9 that he took a cognitive exam at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland “in front of doctors and they were very surprised.” “They said, ‘That’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anyone do what you just did.’” "[The] radical left was saying, 'Is he all there? Is he all there?’' and I proved I was all there because I aced it, I aced the test," Trump said.

During Trump’s first presidential physical in 2018, Navy doctor Ronny Jackson said Trump received a perfect score on the test. Presidents don’t typically sit for cognitive assessments during their periodic physical exams, But Jackson said Trump personally requested the test. “He’s very sharp. He’s very articulate when he speaks to me,” Jackson said in 2018.

Trump has claimed Biden is too mentally weak to be president, prompting the subject of cognitive tests to come up in recent months. On Friday, Wallace asked Trump if he thinks Biden is senile. “I don't want to say that. I'd say he's not competent to be president,” Trump said. “To be president, you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things ... Joe doesn't know he's alive, OK? He doesn't know he's alive.”

The mental assessment Trump took includes remembering a list of spoken words, and listening to a list of random numbers and repeating them backward. Test-takers also have to name as many words that begin with, say, the letter F as possible within a minute and accurately drawing a cube. They also have to describe concrete ways that two objects — like a train and a bicycle — are alike.

The total possible score for the cognitive test is 30 points, and a score of 26 or above is considered normal. (The Sun).