Person, Woman, Bear, Camera, TV -- JoJoFromJerz

[erronis]

https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/person-woman-bear-camera-tv

Donald Trump is out of his fucking mind

One of Jojo's better recent rants. A whopper full of baloney and other variety meats.

In a perfect world, the sitting President of the United States does not brag -- repeatedly, compulsively, obsessively -- like it's his greatest professional accomplishment -- about how many times he has taken and "aced" a dementia screening.

Not once.
Not twice.
Not at a rally, not on social media, not in front of a room full of early-bird-special regulars who showed up expecting answers about their Social Security checks and instead got a live demonstration of "Decompensation: the musical."

Because this isn't new.

He has been bragging about this for years. Publicly. Proudly. Repeatedly. Since his first term. Like identifying a bear in a picture is the intellectual equivalent of splitting the atom. Like he just solved the great philosophical riddle of a person, woman, bear, camera, TV.

And he keeps doing this -- because of course he does -- like this is his closing argument for genius and not a cry for clinical supervision.

Because he's fucking insane.

. . .

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. trump cognitive tests are a joke

[UpInArms]

2. Someday somehow someone

Will find a potion that will wake the cult up

[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. It's begun to erode

All those morons who were DYED IN THE WOOL "RED CAP-WEARERS" are now panicking because they can't afford their gasoline. GOOD FOR 'EM!

FAFO!!!!

[ultralite001]

4. I want to see Krasnov take the MoCA on live TV...

More fun than "The Apprentice"...

[erronis]

5. I was sweating that test while watching. Thanks.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. 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.