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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

Mildly amusing dystopia

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 36 points 1 day ago

My Dad passed away from from dementia, and he was deep into it before the tests finally officially confirmed it. Literally EVERYONE around him absolutely knew it, but so much of the test had to do with numbers - telling time, adding numbers, etc. - that he did deceptively good on it. He never had a problem with numbers, right up to the end. He had been a Mathmatics major in college, and was hard-wired for numbers. Even dementia couldn't disturb that. I saw a 60 minutes piece on Tony Bennett, and he was exactly the same way with music.

So just because you pass the test, doesn't mean you aren't already showing strong symptoms of dementia. I've never taken the test, and neither has my mother. You only take it when someone suggests that it's a good idea because you've been showing symptoms. Of Trump is taking it, it's probably because those around him are becoming alarmed at his behavior.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Okay so this is the second time he’s done that right?

He’s confused a dementia test for an IQ test… twice…

Is that not a sign he might have dementia or something? He should at least remember us making fun of him for it the first time right?

This is an honest question btw. Am I’m missing something? It’s happened twice now?

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it could just mean he has incredibly low IQ, maybe?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

They could also be lying to him what the test really is because he would refuse a dementia test otherwise.

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The related stories are just as funny/tragic:

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

And he couldn't even remember them, so he glanced around the room and came up with person, woman, man, camera, TV.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And... recalling the words later on in the test... is part of the test. Uh oh

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[–] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago (32 children)

I do not drink alcohol. The day this guy stops talking I will go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of Champagne and drink it alone.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DRINK WATER.

that will be the worst hangover. Drink a lot of water with that.

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My wife and I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift. The day it happens is the day we uncork the bottle.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you don't drink, can I recommend basically anything but champagne? Its not good tasting, get a sweet wine or something else instead.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

There's other varieties of Champaign that aren't Brut

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[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really think AOC should take him up on this offer and demand it's broadcast live.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

a live telacast of everyone in congress doing dementia screenings would be fantastic imo

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Doctor: Draw a clock.

Trump: sweating profusely

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember the halcyon days when this would have automatically been assumed to be an Onion article? I remember...

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[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

💯he has dementia.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this consistent misunderstanding of his more indicative of his IQ or his dementia?

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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 207 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Isn't this the second time this exact thing has happened?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah but he didn't remember the first time.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 149 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yep, and despite all that and his first term half the US voters still figured he'd be a great President.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago

But he could totally identify which one was the elephant, and didn't confuse it with the rhino or the camel even once. I'm pretty sure that qualifies anyone to be the bigliest president.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is Trump's second "annual visit" to Walter Reed hospital.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago

Different thing. During his first term, he claimed to have aced a certain cognitive test his doctors gave him. When questioned about it, it sounds like he got the MoCA test, which you can see here:

https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf

Yeah, that's not a test an adult takes when your doctor thinks everything in your brain is fine.

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[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 days ago

They're going to keep giving it to him to gauge his decline.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 days ago

If he found the cognitive function test very hard...

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 143 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tbh, those tests are normally done when you already have issues to determine the severity, and his narcissism does not allow any other message than "perfect score", so i would be more concerned about that his immediate surroundings wanted him to have an MRI and dementia screenings.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe Trump got a perfect score for dementia. You know, 100% dementia.

He's got the best dementia. It's so hot. Everyone is saying how great his dementia is.

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[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 29 points 2 days ago

That's what I said the first time he bragged about his doctors saying that he doesn't have dementia: I don't think people without indicators need in-depth screenings in the first place.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 163 points 2 days ago (7 children)

You genuinely couldn't make this shit up, could you?

Also, I hate that I now read quotes from him in his voice. I want it out of my head.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

Just another stupid story to distract from the Epstein files.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 117 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There is some clip from this where he's like "Hippo, lion, tiger. Crocket couldnt do that. It gets very hard at 10."

Bruh he's literally being asked to list just any fucking animal he can. Like... this is a test for 3yos.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've taken a number of IQ tests, not one of them had pictures of animals on it.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You had the spirit of the quote:

"The first couple 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's naming the big animals that we first learned of as toddlers, same as you attributed to him!

Tried this myself. Went about 2 minutes till I got bored.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Aww bless him, that's just what his people told him the test was for. He doesn't know any better.

😂

😭

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