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[–] 208 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Isn't this the second time this exact thing has happened?

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  • [–] 150 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yep, and despite all that and his first term half the US voters still figured he'd be a great President.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, this is Trump's second "annual visit" to Walter Reed hospital.

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    [–] 162 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    You genuinely couldn't make this shit up, could you?

    Also, I hate that I now read quotes from him in his voice. I want it out of my head.

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    [–] 143 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Tbh, those tests are normally done when you already have issues to determine the severity, and his narcissism does not allow any other message than "perfect score", so i would be more concerned about that his immediate surroundings wanted him to have an MRI and dementia screenings.

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  • [–] 117 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    There is some clip from this where he's like "Hippo, lion, tiger. Crocket couldnt do that. It gets very hard at 10."

    Bruh he's literally being asked to list just any fucking animal he can. Like... this is a test for 3yos.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    You had the spirit of the quote:

    "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."

    He's naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him!

    Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    It's actually a test for dementia patients, to gauge how severe their disease is. That he's being asked to take it at all is... not good.

    Though I'm not really sure if I would prefer him lucid or impaired. It's not like he was a good person when he was in full command of his faculties.

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  • [–] 96 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    I do not drink alcohol. The day this guy stops talking I will go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of Champagne and drink it alone.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Alcohol triggers two medical conditions I have so I to don't drink anymore. After 6 years without a drop of alcohol, trust me you're better off not having it, just buy some fireworks or something.

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    [–] 96 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    The related stories are just as funny/tragic:

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  • [–] 60 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Any IQ test is hard for him

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  • [–] 80 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It isn’t even an iq test, it’s a cognitive test. For dementia and stroke patients. Questions are things like ‘place the numbers where they go on an analog clock.’

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder if they're going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.

    People on here get all upset about kids these days who can't read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it's completely reasonable that they don't know how to drive a manual.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    People on here get all upset about kids these days who can't read an analog clock

    To be fair, it was mostly that one idiot who thought it should disqualify students from sitting exams..

    Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it's completely reasonable that they don't know how to drive a manual.

    And I agree. Just like analog clocks and indeed internal combustion engine cars in general, manual transmissions are technology that used to be the norm but is now old fashioned, unnecessary except for rare use cases, and fast approaching obsolete.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    By modern automotive standards, manual transmissions are already obsolete. That said... They're so damn fun to drive, and you feel way more in control because in some sense you are. Just not in the power and fuel savings that the machine picks

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    EVs are even better - you're fully in control of the power, without an engine and transmission imposing a bunch of limits and power bands based on engine RPM and vehicle speed.

    You actually get the experience that automatic transmissions promise but fail to deliver. If you want power, press the pedal. If you want more power, press the pedal more. That's it. No power fade, surges, hiccups as it shifts, etc.

    I prefer a manual to an automatic, but they're both obsolete. Electric motors just do as they're told.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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    [–] 45 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Okay so this is the second time he’s done that right?

    He’s confused a dementia test for an IQ test… twice…

    Is that not a sign he might have dementia or something? He should at least remember us making fun of him for it the first time right?

    This is an honest question btw. Am I’m missing something? It’s happened twice now?

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    [–] 41 points 10 months ago*

    Aww bless him, that's just what his people told him the test was for. He doesn't know any better.

    😂

    😭

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I really think AOC should take him up on this offer and demand it's broadcast live.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago

    If he found the cognitive function test very hard...

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago

    My Dad passed away from from dementia, and he was deep into it before the tests finally officially confirmed it. Literally EVERYONE around him absolutely knew it, but so much of the test had to do with numbers - telling time, adding numbers, etc. - that he did deceptively good on it. He never had a problem with numbers, right up to the end. He had been a Mathmatics major in college, and was hard-wired for numbers. Even dementia couldn't disturb that. I saw a 60 minutes piece on Tony Bennett, and he was exactly the same way with music.

    So just because you pass the test, doesn't mean you aren't already showing strong symptoms of dementia. I've never taken the test, and neither has my mother. You only take it when someone suggests that it's a good idea because you've been showing symptoms. Of Trump is taking it, it's probably because those around him are becoming alarmed at his behavior.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago

    Just another stupid story to distract from the Epstein files.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago

    Doctor: Draw a clock.

    Trump: sweating profusely

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago

    Again? 🤦

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Is this consistent misunderstanding of his more indicative of his IQ or his dementia?

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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Remember the halcyon days when this would have automatically been assumed to be an Onion article? I remember...

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    💯he has dementia.

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