This is a slightly reworked version of something I posted in another forum
So I was looking at that cognitive test that Trump allegedly aced, and listening to him ramble about it in a Fox News interview. And I think I can make a REALLY good case that he really didn’t pass the test.
Probably the hardest part is the 5 word recall. That’s what he has been bragging about.
About halfway through the test, the doctor reads off five words and asks you to repeat them.
Face velvet church daisy red are the five words used in the sample test, but they may use 5 other unrelated words. I don’t think the tests are always identical. When I was looking for images I saw foreign language versions of the test that had different words and animals.
After you repeat the five words they continue through several other exercises designed to test attention, language and abstraction
After those exercises ( about 5 minutes worth) you are asked to remember and repeat those 5 words
The question directly before the request to repeat the words for the second time is an abstraction test.
In that test they give you two words and you need to find the similarity. They do this for two sets of words. Train-bicycle and watch -ruler are the pairs they give in the sample test. But I’m thinking that the alternate word set used in Trump’s test was man-woman and camera -TV. The answer to the first set would be, of course, person.
In a Fox News interview, Trump babbled about the memory portion of the test and his great memory and how the answers were person man woman TV camera. These are not unrelated words and are therefore probably not the 5 words he was asked to recall. But they could be the words used for the association test - man woman, TV camera - and person would be the answer for the first pair.
Here’s what I think happened. I think when the doctor asked him to repeat the 5 words he wrongly repeated the five words from the last question he heard - man woman person camera TV - instead of the correct ones. Do you think Dr. Jackson would tell him he’s wrong? So I don’t think he even passed the damn test and I bet he messed up other parts, too. I bet he can’t count backwards by 7’s, either. And frankly, I honestly don’t think he could identify a rhinoceros, unless his kid killed one recently.
Seriously, if he didn’t pass would “Dr”. Ronny Jackson tell anyone? Announce to the liberal Trump-hating media that Trump flunked his cognitive test? I bet he wouldn’t even tell Trump. He would just mark everything Trump said as correct. If Trump looked at a picture of a lion and called it an elephant, Jackson would say … “Yep, that’s an elephant. You are a genius, Mr. President. No one has ever gotten that I e right before.