Donald Trump would love folks to know he “ACED” a cognitive check, and that he completely is aware of who the present president of the USA is.
The previous president claimed in a Reality Social screed Monday morning that he’s been referring to former President Barack Obama because the sitting president “sarcastically,” to recommend that Obama is secretly calling the pictures as an alternative of President Joe Biden.
Trump lashed out at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who can also be searching for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, and at Democrats for highlighting his misstatements and suggesting he “should be cognitively impaired.”
“No, I do know each names very effectively, by no means combine them up, and know that they’re destroying our Nation. Additionally, and as reported, I simply took a cognitive check as a part of my Bodily Examination, and ACED it,” Trump wrote. “Additionally ACED (an ideal rating!) one taken whereas within the White Home.”
Trump has closely leaned into this explicit Obama conspiracy idea earlier than, although he’s additionally appeared to genuinely confuse Biden and Obama a number of instances in current weeks. (Biden, for his half, has additionally dedicated a variety of verbal blunders throughout his time in workplace.)
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In his submit on Monday, Trump didn’t supply any justification for his different previous slips, like when he referred to as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban the “chief of Turkey,” or when he appeared to combine up former President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
The struggling DeSantis marketing campaign has seized on these moments and posted a working social media thread of the verbal stumbles.
Final week, Trump’s marketing campaign launched a imprecise observe from a physician declaring that his “general well being is great” and his “cognitive exams had been distinctive,” with out offering any specifics concerning the outcomes.
Trump has repeatedly bragged about a cognitive check he handed as president that required him, partly, to recollect 5 phrases in a row.
He famously boasted throughout a 2020 Fox Information interview that he amazed his medical doctors when he was in a position to recall the phrases “particular person, girl, man, digital camera, TV” so as.