Trump brags about passing cognitive test during rambling Cabinet speech

Trump brags about passing cognitive test during rambling Cabinet speechReuters

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00:00I'll let you know when there's something wrong there will be someday that's going to happen to

00:04all of us but right now I think I'm sharper than I was 25 years ago but who the hell knows I took

00:09by the way I took my physical I got all A's everything but they said to me would you like

00:17to take a cognitive test I said is it hard they said yes I said well I'm a very smart person

00:26who was the last president to take one no president has ever agreed to take one because

00:33when you get into the mid questions meaning you know 10 question number 10 11 12 28 30 they get

00:41harder and harder and they said would you like to do it I said well no reason to do it nobody's ever

00:50done it I'll do it maybe but there's really no reason they said sir the problem is this is Walter

00:55Reed Hospital and that's a military hospital and that means that things are you know sort of open

01:02it's not like private where you have if you do poorly we'll have to probably you'll you'll find

01:11out they said I won't do poorly I'm a smart person not a stupid person and as the doctor will tell you

01:18I aced it right Susie I aced I got every question right and these are tough questions these are

01:24questions that I would say 99% of the people that I'm talking to right now meaning the people that

01:31from the fake news would not do well in those exams but I'm the only one that took it I got every

01:37single question right and then I read in the New York Times is Trump sharp Trump is sharp but they're not

01:45sharp that's why they're going out of business the New York Times