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DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results

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Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results

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  • Muffi@programming.dev
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    The related stories are just as funny/tragic:

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      5 words? oh the humanity

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        And he couldn’t even remember them, so he glanced around the room and came up with person, woman, man, camera, TV.

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          And… recalling the words later on in the test… is part of the test. Uh oh

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          ah yes, the 5 genders.

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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    Isn’t this the second time this exact thing has happened?

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      They’re going to keep giving it to him to gauge his decline.

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      Yeah, this is Trump’s second “annual visit” to Walter Reed hospital.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Different thing. During his first term, he claimed to have aced a certain cognitive test his doctors gave him. When questioned about it, it sounds like he got the MoCA test, which you can see here:

        https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf

        Yeah, that’s not a test an adult takes when your doctor thinks everything in your brain is fine.

  • AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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      DRINK WATER.

      that will be the worst hangover. Drink a lot of water with that.

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        Feeling hungover and not having gods chosen around will probably at least balance it out where you’ll still be ecstatic at least. Champagne is damn good though, hangover be damned so long as you drink a normal amount of water.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      If you don’t drink, can I recommend basically anything but champagne? Its not good tasting, get a sweet wine or something else instead.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        yeah i celebrate with port

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      My wife and I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift. The day it happens is the day we uncork the bottle.

    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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      I do not drink alcohol. the day this guy stops talking i will continue to not drink alcohol. Just because someone you hate stops talking doesn’t mean you need to drink.

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        Martinelli’s was good enough for me when I was 8, and it is good enough for me at 48.

        Explanation: this is a carbonated apple juice, growing up this was provided at many parties for kids as an alternative to champagne. We keep a bottle in our house for celebrations still.

        • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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          ill stick to my brio thanks.

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            I was agreeing with you and offering a non-alcoholic analog, but you do you bro.

            • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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              cheers allan.

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        I’m glad you are staying to true to yourself and your own needs, but you can find other ways to celebrate that work for you.

        • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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          ok

    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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      I’m going to drink a couple bottles of any Mexican beer

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        I love the specificity of Mexican beer.

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        Until he stops talking I’m drinking Mexican water :(

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      wouldn’t be too fast…shit is only getting worse when he croaks.

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    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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      My tired ass first read “you genetically couldn’t make this shit up”, and frankly, we should preemptively make a law for this.

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      Easy. Just swap his voice out for Kevin Hart’s.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        Fucking cash back credit card ads in my head now. I wish ublock worked on my TV

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          PiHole. 🤘🏼

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            Yeah it’s been on my todo list for years. I gotta pick up an Ethernet cable for adding it to my lan.

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    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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      I mean it could just mean he has incredibly low IQ, maybe?

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        Or both

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      They could also be lying to him what the test really is because he would refuse a dementia test otherwise.

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      The thing with IQ or any cognitive test, is they’re only administered when there’s a call for one.

      If trump was behaving like a normal man his age, then there wouldn’t likely be a cognitive test. Just like how most people who get an IQ test are only tested if they’re either exceptionally advanced or exceptionally behind in their learning.

      Yet he’s either too demented or too cognitively slow to realize that the fact his doctors want tests means that something seems wrong to them.

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    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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      I’ve taken a number of IQ tests, not one of them had pictures of animals on it.

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        And I think it’s about time we do something about it!

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      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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        It would be literally the most hilarious in the history of US politics if it wasn’t such a horrible reality we’re in.

        If you wrote something this absurd into a book, your editor would make you rewrite it.

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

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      a live telacast of everyone in congress doing dementia screenings would be fantastic imo

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    Doctor: Draw a clock.

    Trump: sweating profusely

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    If he found the cognitive function test very hard…

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    Just another stupid story to distract from the Epstein files.

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    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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    Any IQ test is hard for him

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      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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        I remember that episode of Hannibal. Did not end well.

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      He can’t even spell IQ

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        Eyeque

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          1)When your optometrist is busy

          2)when someone hits you in the ocular region with an implement usually intended for playing pool, billiards, or snooker

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            1. When you are in line for an eye transplant.
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              When you’re waiting your turn to go on a multi-elevation walking tour of South London

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        Well there’s a lower side to the IQ spectrum. It’s why I like to call people idiots.

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          New Mexico used to have a law that idiots could not vote, too bad it did not bar them from running for office.

          New Mexico Supreme Court affirms amendment ending ban on ‘idiot’ voters interesting to note, this happened in 2016, right before trimp was elected. Coincidence? Maybe not.

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      https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf

      The test

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

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    Again? 🤦

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

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      Pepperidge farm remembers

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