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Last Updated:October 29, 2025, 10:30 IST
Trump was seen boasting about his ability to pass the test, which he claimed was "very hard", reports suggested that the President was referring to the MoCA.
US President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump was caught boasting about his “very hard IQ test", appearing to confuse it with a dementia screening test. Claiming to have gained a perfect score, Trump also challenged his Democratic rivals, Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), to take the same exam.
The 79-year-old President claimed on Monday to have taken an “IQ test" at Walter Reed Medical Center and called the test “very hard" as he slammed his opponents as “low IQ" persons.
“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. 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," Trump told reporters.
While Trump was seen boasting about his ability to pass the test, which he claimed was “very hard", reports suggested that the President was referring to the Montreat Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a short assessment test to identify early signs of dementia.
Notably, MoCA is not an IQ test. The MoCA is a 10-minute screening tool used by doctors to evaluate cognitive function. The test assesses cognitive domains like memory, attention, language, and visuospatial skills and is useful in the identification of mild cognitive impairment.
His physician, in fact, had said in April that he had undergone the test during his annual checkup at Walter Reed Medical Center and aced it.
Recounting the test format, Trump said that the Democrats would come nowhere close to answering the questions.
“The first couple of 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 added.
“The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe"As I said the last time he claimed to ace his smart test like no-one ever, they obviously again (they don’t give you this one twice for fun) gave Trump the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: the dementia test. https://t.co/Tmcu1QMwBB pic.twitter.com/7hj07Of4xi
— Seamus Ryan (@meanderingtripe) October 27, 2025
The test’s creator, Canadian neurologist Dr Ziad Nasreddine, had earlier said that the assessment is not designed to measure IQ or determine if anyone has low IQ.
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October 29, 2025, 10:30 IST
News world Trump Confuses Dementia Test With 'Very Hard' IQ Exam, Then Challenges Democrats To Take It
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