Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for ‘Very Hard’ IQ Test as He Brags About Results

President Donald Trump appeared to tout his performance on a cognitive screening while speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One.

The 79-year-old president said on Monday, Oct. 27, that he had taken what he called an “IQ test” at Walter Reed Medical Center and challenged Democratic Representatives Jasmine Crockett, 44, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 36, to take the same exam.

“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,” Trump told reporters. “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. Let Jasmine go against Trump.”

He went on to describe the early questions on the test as simple—“a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe”—and claimed that as the questions grew harder, “they couldn’t come close to answering any of those.”

Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a 10-minute screening tool designed to detect early signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, according to The New Republic.

In April, Trump’s physician stated that the president had taken the MoCA during his annual physical at Walter Reed and received a perfect score. He previously took the same test in 2018, reportedly scoring 30 out of 30, and later challenged President Joe Biden to take it as well. During a Fox News interview that year, Trump famously recalled one of the test’s memory sequences: “Person, woman, man, camera, TV.”

“They say nobody gets it in order—it’s actually not that easy. But for me it was easy,” he said at the time.

Canadian neurologist Dr. Ziad Nasreddine—who created the MoCA in 1996—told NBC News that the test is not designed to measure intelligence. “There are no studies showing that this test is correlated to IQ tests,” he said. “Its purpose is to identify cognitive impairment, not to assess intelligence.”

Earlier this month, Trump returned to Walter Reed for a routine check-up that included lab tests, imaging, and preventive assessments, according to White House physician Sean Barbabella. Speaking with reporters, Trump said an MRI performed during that visit showed “perfect” results, though he did not specify the reason for the scan.