Trump: "I took the Exam three times during my ('THREE!') Terms as President, and ACED IT ALL THREE TIMES"

[Miles Archer]

Trump announced on Thursday that he has served three terms as president and bragged about passing his cognitive exams — something he thinks all presidential or vice presidential candidates should be "forced" to do.

The boast about his mental fitness came amid a flurry of Truth Social posts in which he inaccurately referred to having served a triple term as president. Trump has only served two terms as commander-in-chief.

He also unleashed insults at former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, whom he has often targeted via social media rants.

"Anybody running for President or Vice President should be forced to take a Cognitive Examination prior to entering the Race! By doing so, we wouldn’t be surprised at people like Barack 'Hussein' Obama, or Sleepy Joe Biden, getting 'ELECTED.' Our Country would be a much better place! I took the Exam three times during my ('THREE!') Terms as President, and ACED IT ALL THREE TIMES — An Achievement that, even on a single Exam, according to the Doctors, has rarely been done before! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-cognitive-test/

[Tripper11]

1. just what the actual fuck anymore? eom

[yellow dahlia]

10. You said it for me.

[malaise]

2. Bwaaaah

Raving lunatic Dementia Donvict has really lost it

[PatSeg]

3. He just can't help himself

He seems incapable of keeping his mouth shut. I wonder what kind of madness is going on inside that brain of his.

[chowder66]

4. Ultimate Self-Own.

[Jim__]

5. And just flunked, "Count to 3."

[surfered]

6. The deluded idiot is only calling attention to the fact someone felt it necessary to test him for dementia...Three Times!!

[RockRaven]

7. I like Presidents who don't need to take cognitive tests.

The Dotard, in his dotage, is forgetting that most people's doctors deem them not in need of cognitive testing. The fact of the test itself is saying something, Dotard.

[Americanme]

8. Reporters need to ask

Who made you take the dementia test 3 times? Why did they make you take the dementia test 3 times? What were they concerned about? Do you have another dementia test scheduled?

[LoisB]

13. They should ask but they won't.

[chouchou]

9. Donny-Baby has lots of Maggots in his brain.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. In other words, he's been screened for severe dementia three times, and he still didn't trigger any alarms ?

Something's wrong there.

[rurallib]

12. They should also be screened for felony convictions

[flvegan]

14. 77 million idiots voted for this dope. n/t

[Aristus]

15. I'm so sick of this revolting child.

When will it end?...

[Totally Tunsie]

16. moron

[LudwigPastorius]

17. He is insisting that 2020-2024 was his second term, because the election was "stolen" from him.

So, in his diseased, traitorous mind, this is his third term.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Jen Psaki laughs as she mercilessly mocks GOP's desperate rebrand attempt

Jen had fun last night

MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off Thursday night's edition of "The Briefing" by ruthlessly mocking the House GOP's latest rebranding attempt to try to stave off defeat in November.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-05-01T11:00:06.676Z

https://www.rawstory.com/jen-psaki-2676838226

MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off Thursday night's edition of "The Briefing" by ruthlessly mocking the House GOP's latest rebranding attempt to try to stave off defeat in November.

"It seems like little Mike Johnson has finally, finally settled on his pitch for the midterms," said Psaki. "He has managed to boil it all down to one simple message."

"House Republicans continue to deliver for the American people," said Johnson in a clip. "We will continue to do that for the remainder of the year, and that is a large reason why we are going to win the midterms, so that the grown-ups can stay in charge here."....

"I think Ukraine, militarily, they're defeated," said Trump. "Okay, you wouldn't know that by reading the fake news, but militarily, look, their navy, so they had 159 ships. Every ship is right now underwater. They have no navy, no air force, no anti-aircraft apparatus other than what they may have put there — they may have brought in some light stuff during the ceasefire."

"Ukraine is defeated," said Psaki. "That's what he said. All their ships are underwater. Think you mean Iran? Their pal Iran. See, Donald Trump doesn't even know which war he's talking about."

"So I'm going to put this in terms I think he can probably understand," said Psaki. "Donald Trump started a war with Iran. That war with Iran has made the price of gas go up. And gas is the thing that makes cars go zoom. Got it? And thanks to the war Trump started with Iran, Americans have spent the last two months watching the price at the pump climb higher and higher."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. MaddowBlog-Trump's incessant talk about cognitive tests isn't reassuring people about his mental fitness

The percentage of Americans who believe that Trump is “mentally sharp” has dropped below 50%. He’s apparently feeling rather defensive on the issue.

The percentage of Americans who believe that Trump is “mentally sharp” has dropped well below 50%.

He’s apparently responding with manic rhetoric about cognitive tests.

I have a hunch that won’t turn things around for him.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-05-04T20:02:33.737Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-incessant-talk-about-cognitive-tests-isnt-reassuring-people-about-his-mental-fitness

If his public remarks are any indication, few topics are of greater interest to Donald Trump than cognitive tests. The president has long struggled to understand the point of these tests, but that hasn’t stopped him from his obsessive boasts about being able to pass exams used to identify dementia, mental deterioration and neurodegenerative diseases.

On Friday, for example, Trump spoke to a supportive crowd in Florida, where he went on an extended riff, claiming that he’s the only president to have taken a cognitive test, pretending it’s impressive that he’s taken three and insisting that Barack Obama would fail such a test......

I am going to resist the temptation to comment on that quote and will instead note that around the same time, the president suggested some of his own supporters on hand for the event would struggle to answer the questions on the exams he’s taken repeatedly for reasons the White House hasn’t explained.

Trump suggests his own supporters couldn’t pass a cognitive test.

I took three of them. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don’t think Obama could pass it. The first question is a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. A lot of you wouldn’t have been able to answer those questions.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-05-01T20:50:37.879Z

If it seemed that Trump was feeling a bit defensive on the issue, it’s easy to understand why. It was just a few weeks ago when The New York Times published a striking report with an unsubtle headline: “Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate.” The same article highlighted a lawyer who used to work with Trump who described the president as “a man who is clearly insane.”

It also noted a recent comment from Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary who worked for Trump in his first term. Grisham wrote online a week earlier that her former boss is “clearly not well.”....

But just as important is the degree to which Trump’s fixation on the subject doesn’t seem to be persuading anyone. As recently as November 2024, when he won a second term, a Pew Research Center poll found that 55% of Americans considered the Republican to be “mentally sharp.” That number has now dropped to 44%, with slides among Democrats, independents and even GOP voters.

If the president wants to reassure the public he’s mentally fit to serve, he’ll have to try something other than obsessing over his alleged successes on dementia tests.