Donald Trump is rather famous at this point for insisting that everything he’s ever done has been done better by him than any person “in the history of our country.” When jobs reports are positive, the numbers are higher than ever “in the history of our country.” When he won the election in 2016 without even winning the popular vote, he won it by more electoral college votes than any president “in the history of our country.” When he shuffles down a ramp, he shuffled better than anyone.
Surreal exchange between Trump and Wallace about whether the cognitive test is hard. Trump insists it is, Wallace says it isn’t after taking it. “They have a picture and it says ‘What’s that?’ and it’s an elephant,” Wallace says. Trump says the last five questions are “very hard” pic.twitter.com/nCem860ldN
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That boasting extended recently to a cognitive function test that Trump took at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of what he says was his annual physical exam. He insisted that doctor there told him that not a lot of people could do what he was capable of doing on that cognitive test and that he passed it with flying colors.
Fox News Sunday host and interviewer Chris Wallace pulled some receipts.
One of the questions, Wallace said, was “they have a picture and they say ‘what’s that?’ And it’s an elephant.” Trump denied that it was that easy and said the last five questions were very hard. Wallace answered that one of the questions asked respondents to count backwards by seven. Trump didn’t even try.
After being shown up more than once by the persistent Wallace, he finally gave up and said that, anyway, Joe Biden couldn’t pass it.
Twitter was stunned at the utter ignorance Trump displayed during the interview, although it shouldn’t really surprise anyone at this point. Read some of their comments below:
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