Donald Trump just gave something away about his failing cognitive abilities
There’s an old adage that says if a motel has to put a sign out front that says “clean rooms” it’s only because the motel is such a dump that people would otherwise assume the rooms are dirty. This is what came to mind when Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he took a cognitive test and got every question right.
In other words, Trump is so far gone cognitively that he’s worried everyone out there already knows it. And that’s why he has to turn around and announce that he supposedly aced the test. The problem for Trump is that the test involves questions like whether you can correctly identify a picture of a lion, and as Trump once famously boasted, whether you can remember strings of words like “woman, person, man, camera, TV.”
This isn’t something you’d brag about, any more than you’d brag about walking across the room without falling down. That is, unless you have a medical condition that makes it difficult to walk across the room without falling down. And there’s nothing wrong with that at all. Nor is there any shame in having dementia. But you can’t have a President of the United States with advanced dementia. And the mere fact that Trump is bragging about supposedly not having dementia is the cognitive equivalent of putting a “clean rooms” sign out front.
The real problem is that each time Trump and his people once again announce that he’s aced another cognitive test, most of the media prints it as if it were fact. Are there ever any serious medical results released to support Trump’s claim? No. Is there a metric ton of evidence that Trump has severe cognitive problems? Every time he appears in public. Yet the media mostly just ignores the obvious and gives Trump the puff pieces he wants about how he has the greatest cognitive abilities in the history of cognitive abilities.
Meanwhile back in the real world, Donald Trump is out there struggling to understand what’s going on, spewing strings of words that don’t go together, obsessing over sharks and batteries, and insisting that a fictional cannibal won the election for him. But by all means, mainstream media, let’s keep running stories about how Trump’s cognitive abilities are supposedly just fine.
