Donald Trump wants presidential candidates to take a cognitive exam to avoid ending up with leaders like Barack Obama, and all the irony meters melted – 18 top takedowns
Never let it be said that Donald Trump passed up an opportunity to boast about his cognitive tests – the cognitive tests that people are given when they display signs of dementia.
He’s been taking them since 2020, when ‘person, woman, man, camera, TV’ nearly broke the internet. Here’s CNN’s brilliant explanation of what happened.
This may be the best 14 seconds in the history of CNN.pic.twitter.com/v4K6LV0ACu
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 20, 2020
Since then, he’s been wanging on about that and the two subsequent tests as though he’d passed the entrance exam for Harvard, rather than – for example – successfully identifying a giraffe.
Trump: I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe. pic.twitter.com/IQhU9pdnMj
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 20, 2025
In a Truth Social post on Thursday, he shared his wish that potential presidents and vice presidents should come up to the same exacting standards as he has.
Trump: "Anybody running for President or Vice President should be forced to take a Cognitive Examination prior to entering the Race! By doing so, we wouldn’t be surprised at people like Barack 'Hussein' Obama, or Sleepy Joe Biden, getting 'ELECTED.' Our Country would be a much… pic.twitter.com/pb7s0BWHn9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2026
The irony may have flown completely over the head of the stable genius, but it was certainly not lost on these people.
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Never in history has one guy been so thrilled that he can identify a giraffe.
— Bill Johnson (@Bill43111) April 30, 2026
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Trump picked a cow and an elephant out of a picture and now he thinks he's a MENSA member?🤡🤡
— Denison Barb (@DenisonBarbs) April 30, 2026
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He’s still bragging about his dementia test.
Nobody has told him it was a dementia test yet. 🤦♂️ https://t.co/gkC2f1Szg8
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) April 30, 2026
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Old man Trump identified a hippo in a way we’d never seen before, the doctors said with treats in their eyes https://t.co/micdsNsYNs
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 30, 2026
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He’s bragging about passing a dementia test that he originally thought was an IQ test.
What an embarrassment. https://t.co/zjn2ywZq3y
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 30, 2026
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It’s so funny how everybody around Trump is such a humiliated yes-man that nobody is brave enough to say “hey maybe knock it off about the dementia test they keep giving you” https://t.co/GdDBNrBRVz
— Duncan Smith (@DuncanSmithNBA) April 30, 2026
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His IQ is less than his age. pic.twitter.com/RvzkGa9bou
— Flowrchk ☮ (@flowabug) April 30, 2026
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He has way too much free time on his hands… https://t.co/FaYNDoaPc7
— Sophia A. Nelson (@IAmSophiaNelson) April 30, 2026
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Straight ONION material. You just can't make this shit up! https://t.co/VR95x2dTzD
— Gilda Morkert🍉☮️❤️🩵🌊 (@g_morkert) April 30, 2026