Sir, there is a test
This is very performative, very self-refuting, very watch this backfire, very corroborative of the thing it claims to deny. This is Trump telling a crowd he’s not stupid, and demonstrating how stupid he is by doing so.
I think it’s diagnostic, that inability to talk in complete sentences, the helpless self-interrupting whenever a new thought intrudes. Isn’t it? That’s not normal cognitive functioning, surely. He’s trying to tell the adoring crowd how not stupid he is, but he can’t not interrupt himself to say who “Doc Ronny” is and then to interrupt that to say he’s now a Representative and then to interrupt that to say how many votes he got – fifdee doo – and so on and on. He’s too stupid to realize how he’s coming across, too stupid not to reveal his own stupidity second by second.
During Saturday’s rally in Ohio, Trump detailed once again that he aced a cognitive test in 2018. “I don’t like being called stupid,” Trump said.
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The test Trump referenced is called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. It is not an IQ test but rather a tool to spot early signs of dementia and other memory issues.
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I don’t think he’s got any sort of dementia, which would imply that he at one time was more intelligent than this. Intelligence has as much to do with adaptation and learning as needed in order to process and understand. If one does not need a deep understanding of processes used to solve problems they don’t develop the skills we refer to as “intelligence.” (I read a whole book on human intelligence for a conceptual AI course, and still didn’t think that the question has been answered as to what intelligence is. It’s certainly not a fixed biological trait as implied by the Stanford-Binet test.)
He’s only ever thought as deeply as he needs to think, because he’s got a bombastic personality, and he’s been abie to skate lazily by on many things because he can develop strategies to use his power to get what he wants. That’s all he’s needed, and his love for power has been satisfied at most steps (except last November.) People come to his rallies and cheer no matter what a lousy speaker he is, so he’s never needed to become a better speaker nor has he ever needed to make sense.
If you’re intelligent, you don’t need a test to prove it. So that’s why I don’t brag about my 145 Stanford-Binet.
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I never paid any attention to him at all before the horror of 2015, but I guess I’m assuming he wasn’t this bad at speaking in complete sentences his whole life.
Sorry about that. I don’t use derogatory or abusive language for people who are actually handicapped, I save that for people who are arrogant and think they are much more intelligent than they are. To all who saw that, my apologies. I am far from perfect myself.