This deserves its own thread. I don't think Trump realizes how much he's told us when he described the amazement of the doctors on how well he did on a test designed to ferret out dementia...
Trump's cognition test...
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did you see the look on his face when Chris Wallace said counting backwards from 100 by 7 isn't hard? Just that sentence confused him
The whole interview was scary, but that was the scariest part. Of course, reading Mary Trump's book is pretty scary also...
What's funny to some of us is that I'm old enough to remember when then candidate Ronald Reagan said that if rumors arose about "an old coot" around the White House, he was willing to take a senility test. This inspired Georgia comedian Lewis Grizzard to say, "Of course he will - if he can find it."
If you are bragging about passing a dementia test.... Then you might not need to be president
Especially if you say that the last five questions are hard and doubt the interviewer could pass it. ugh.
Im just wondering if it is true that Daddy Murdoch truly hates Trump. Because it’s odd that it was Wallace who did that interview. Unless they were preparing for opposition questioning it is totally bizarre that Fox sent their un indoctrinated bull dog to interview the most vulnerable republican president since Ford.
it's even more amazing watching it. it makes it a little more clear why his base supports him
Basically, I see Trump's entire argument for re-election is him saying this:
1) Biden botched the swine flu response and thousands died.
I mean, no comment is even necessary here.
2) Biden is incoherent.
Biden HAS always been a bit of a gaffe machine, that's true. But that was true 34 years ago, too, so this hardly shows he's had a decline in mental health.
Maybe Chris Wallace should have asked Trump if he thinks that Biden thinks the Revolutionary War soldiers seized airports........
1) Biden botched the swine flu response and thousands died.
I mean, no comment is even necessary here.
2) Biden is incoherent.
Biden HAS always been a bit of a gaffe machine, that's true. But that was true 34 years ago, too, so this hardly shows he's had a decline in mental health.
Maybe Chris Wallace should have asked Trump if he thinks that Biden thinks the Revolutionary War soldiers seized airports........
Last year, when I turned 65, my doctor gave me a required once-over to get on Medicare. They had a list of stuff for him to do. I remember taking this test where part of it was answering questions from the nurse, and some of it was written. Draw a picture of a clock that reads ten 'til eleven... which is the camel in this group of animals, etc...
I asked the nurse, "Is this a joke?" She told me, "you might think these are childish, simplistic questions. Trust me, the day will come, when you are proud of being able to answer them. We want to be there for you and aware of your condition when that day gets here."
I asked the nurse, "Is this a joke?" She told me, "you might think these are childish, simplistic questions. Trust me, the day will come, when you are proud of being able to answer them. We want to be there for you and aware of your condition when that day gets here."
I agree it was a surprisingly tough interview but then again, not a single question as to why he has been silent on Putin putting a bounty on our troops.
But my Lord, how can he be unaware enough to not realize how nuts he looks to be to be so proud of passing this test? Completely out to lunch.
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This reminds me of one of Lewis Grizzard's old stories (I believe it was in his book, "If I Ever Get Back to Georgia").
He went in and applied to work at a bank. They told him before the interview that he was going to have to take a test. He did. It basically said, "Match the column on the right with the one on the left." He noted that you'd look on the left and see "314" and then see it on the right and match them. His immediate thought was, "Gee, I shouldn't have wasted any time with calculus; I could've done this when I was four years old and playing with blocks." He goes in for the interview, and the bank manager says, "Congratulations, you aced the test."
Grizzard said his immediate thought was, "You mean you have people who come in here who DON'T?"
That being said - they're telling you straight. After my Dad had his three strokes on Father's Day four years ago - it's been a challenge with his cognitive deficits.
I still say the most striking thing about Trump's response was his raving about how surprised the doctors were that he could do it. It would scare the crap out of me, if my doctors reacted that way...
I understand. I helped my sister with her brilliant husband as he had Alzheimer's take over. He was a retired Delta pilot who moonlighted as a lawyer. Watching the decline up close for several years will make an impression.
Alzheimer's, as I'm sure you know, can be especially cruel. After having Nixon roaming the halls at the White House in the middle of the night taking to portraits of dead Presidents...and then Reagan's decline...
I had hoped we had seen the last of doddering old fools with the nuclear code.
Well, as a doddering old fool, I'd trust me with the nuclear code over Trump, any day. I would never consider using a nuke against a hurricane...
Yeah, it sounded like when parents are looking down in the crib glad their baby "made poo poo!"
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