CNN’s Dr. Jonathan Reiner isn’t shopping for Donald Trump’s repeated claims about acing a cognitive take a look at.
The previous president has insisted that the Montreal Cognitive Evaluation (MoCA) ― aka the notorious “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” take a look at he took in 2020, when he was president ― was “difficult.”
Reiner stepped in with a fact-check on Sunday.
“In the event you suppose a dementia screening take a look at could be very troublesome, you will have early dementia,” Reiner, who’s director of cardiac catheterization laboratories at George Washington College, wrote on X:
Trump has repeatedly insisted that the take a look at could be very onerous, and earlier this month claimed it accommodates superior math corresponding to “multiply 3,293 instances 4, divide by 3.”
It doesn’t, as can be seen on a sample test here.
The take a look at was created to assist docs detect the warning indicators of the cognitive impairments that may result in dementia.
“It’s alleged to be simple for somebody who has no cognitive impairment,” Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, who developed the take a look at, told MarketWatch in 2020.
But Trump has consistently claimed in any other case.
“It’s not simple!” he told supporters on Saturday, saying solely 2 p.c of his followers might cross it.
Reiner additionally shared a clip of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley ― Trump’s rival for the Republican nomination ― saying the previous president is in “decline.”