The Doctor Who Created Cognitive Test Trump Was Mocked Over Says Most People Don't Pass President Trump’s mental acuity again became a hot button topic this week after the president boasted acing what many called an “easy” cognitive test.

“If you’re in the office of the presidency, we have to be sharp,” President Trump told Fox News medical correspondent, Dr. Marc Siegel, on Wednesday. “It was 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very easy, the last questions are much more difficult.”

Trump said he requested the test “a little less than a year ago” to silence critics who have repeatedly called his mental fitness into question.

Trump cited as one of the “more difficult” questions one that required him to repeat a set of words in the correct order.

“It’s like, you’ll go, ‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV’,” Trump said. “So, they’d say, ‘Could you repeat that?’ So, I said, yeah — person, woman, man, camera, TV.”

While critics ridiculed Trump for touting the cognitive test as proof of his sharpness, Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, who created the test Trump took, said in a recent interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett that the test is actually “somewhat hard” for “normal” people and only about 10% have gotten all the questions right.

He mentioned the specific “5-word recall question,” saying most people get about 2 or 3 out of 5 words in the correct order.
CNN anchors Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo were among the many to ridicule Trump, with Cuomo saying the test looked “like something for middle school.”

Cuomo asked Lemon to name three animals drawn on the test but Lemon mistook a rhino for a hippo.

“What were the animal shapes?” Cuomo asked.

“Well, it’s a lion, a hippo, and a camel,” Lemon said.

“Isn’t that a rhino in the middle?” asked Cuomo, prompting an awkward response from Lemon who explained his mistake was because he was looking at the test backward.

Some on social media also mocked Cuomo for having “poor short-term memory” after he later asked Lemon what it meant if a person does not know “an elephant from a rhino.”

“An elephant?” asked a confused Lemon.
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