Twitter Destroys Donald Trump Jr. After His Comments About Donald Trump’s Mental Competency
February 25, 2023 by Marissa Matozzo
Donald Trump Jr. gave many Twitter users a good laugh this week after bragging that his father, Donald Trump easily passed a “mental competency test.”
It was later proven, as many users pointed out, that the twice-impeached former president had not taken such a test, but rather one called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (or MoCA) which is used to check for signs of cognitive impairments that could indicate dementia.
As the creator of the test, Dr. Ziad Nasreddine said to MarketWatch in 2020, “It is supposed to be easy for someone who has no cognitive impairment,” and it consists of asking the subject to do simple tasks like identifying an elephant, or remembering and reciting five words.
This week, the billionaire’s son echoed a call from his father that presidential candidates “take a full & complete Mental Competency Test” in order to run for office. The eldest son of the ex-president wrote on his father’s Truth Social Page, “He did this himself when he was president.”
Critics on Twitter, however, were fast to note that the Apprentice alum didn’t actually take a “mental competency test,” or at least didn’t announce the results if he did. Instead, he took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. In 2020, as many may recall, the former president revealed that he had to recall the following five words, “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”