Donald Trump is eager to tell everyone that doctors and medical experts are bowled over by the repeated cognitive tests they’re subjecting him to. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to him that being subjected to repeated examinations to check if his brain is functioning correctly is itself concerning.
Trump is currently still sore about a report in The New York Times that he’s slowing down as he fast approaches 80. And, as someone who never plays defense, he’s on the attack. In a lengthy ramble on Truth Social, he claimed “there has never been a President that has worked as hard as me!” and went on to boast about his largely fictitious achievements in office.
But he also, perhaps inadvertently, dropped some very telling insights into his doctors’ concerns about his brain:
Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) December 10, 2025
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful. pic.twitter.com/b782x30o9c
“I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT marks – Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results.”
He goes on to describe his “cognitive examinations”:
“I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do poorly.”
Oh, uh, absolutely, Mr President, your brain is… uh, great!
It’s worth emphasizing that these cognitive tests are designed to ensure the subject is functioning at baseline human cognition. “Acing” this test isn’t something to be proud of: it’s simply confirmation that your brain is ticking over normally.
What’s more troubling is that Trump appears to be so gullible that he believes the doctors when they’re flattering him by telling him they’ve never seen someone so readily able to identify a silhouette of an elephant, or that understands an apple and an orange are both fruit.
On top of all that, it’s worrying that “large numbers” of medical professionals arrive to observe the president’s cognitive tests. When medical professionals need to compare notes and ask each other’s opinion on an unusual case, that’s rarely good for the patient.
The reality is that any doctor who dared tell Donald Trump that he was cognitively unsuitable to be president would find themselves instantly out of a job and pilloried in right-wing media. Trump doesn’t want to hear bad news – especially not bad news about his disintegrating brain!
But, for now, we guess the testing must continue, even as doctors silently catch each other’s eyes behind Trump’s back and subtly shake their heads.
Published: Dec 10, 2025 07:12 am