Trump Confuses Dementia Screening with IQ Test: Claims Perfect Score and Challenges Democratic Rivals

US President Donald Trump has claimed that he took an "IQ test," seemingly confusing it with a cognitive screening test designed to detect dementia. He boasted about achieving a perfect score while challenging Democratic rivals Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to undertake the same examination.

Speaking aboard Air Force One, the 79-year-old president described the test as "very hard" while criticizing his opponents as having "low IQ."

"They have Jasmine Crockett, a low-IQ person. AOC is low IQ... You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard. They're really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump," Trump told reporters.

Evidence suggests the president was referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a brief screening tool designed to identify early indications of dementia, not an intelligence quotient test. According to his physician's April statement, Trump completed this assessment during his annual medical examination at Walter Reed Medical Center and scored perfectly.

Describing the test format, Trump claimed that Democrats would struggle significantly with the questions.

"The first couple of 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 added.

A sample of the assessment is included below.

"The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe"As I said the last time he claimed to ace his smart test like no-one ever, they obviously again (they don't give you this one twice for fun) gave Trump the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: the dementia test.

The MoCA is a 10-minute screening instrument utilized by healthcare professionals to evaluate cognitive function. It assesses various cognitive domains including memory, attention, language, and visuospatial abilities, proving valuable for identifying mild cognitive impairment.

Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian neurologist who created the test, has previously clarified that the assessment is not designed to measure intelligence quotient or determine whether someone has low IQ.

In 2020, Trump had suggested that his predecessor, Joe Biden, should take the same cognitive assessment.