President Donald Trump boasted about his brain power as he raged against his foes in a fresh Truth Social posting spree on Thursday.
Trump, 79, touted that he “aced” his cognitive exams as he took a swipe at his predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, in a bizarre flurry of posts that took aim at everyone from the chancellor of Germany to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
“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,’” he wrote in one post.
“Our Country would be a much better place! I took the Exam three times during my (“THREE!”) Terms as President, and ACED IT ALL THREE TIMES — An Achievement that, even on a single Exam, according to the Doctors, has rarely been done before!” he added.
Trump has bragged extensively about acing what he has described as a “very hard” test—even though it’s for detecting cognitive impairment, not measuring mental aptitude.
The test, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, is a 10-minute, 30-point screening tool that assesses areas such as short-term memory, executive functioning, and visuospatial abilities. Questions include naming the pictured animals, reading a list of letters and numbers, and performing basic arithmetic.
“I’m the only president that ever took a cognitive test,” Trump told his Cabinet last month. “I took it three times. It’s actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn’t hard for me.”
“It’s a cognitive test. It starts off with an easy question. And by the time you get to the middle, it gets tougher,” he went on. “By the time you get to the end, very few people can answer those questions. They get very tough mathematical equations and things. I took it three times. I aced it all three times in front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are.”
Trump, the oldest person to be inaugurated U.S. president, has regularly faced scrutiny of his health thanks to his mental flubs, public bouts of drowsiness, bruised hands, and swollen ankles. The White House has consistently maintained that the president is in “excellent” health.
The president made 13 posts in five hours between Thursday morning and afternoon.
In one post, Trump branded Jeffries a “low IQ individual” over his remarks about the Supreme Court in the wake of a bombshell ruling that could reshape the fight to control Congress.
“Hakeem Jeffries just called the Supreme Court of the United States an illegitimate Court!” Trump said. “This is a Low IQ individual, who should not be allowed to talk that way about one of the Greatest Institutions anywhere in the World. He should withdraw the statement, IMMEDIATELY!”
For some reason, the rant was paired with a portrait of Trump looking menacing as he leaned over the Resolute Desk. Jeffries’ team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a separate post, Trump also gave German Chancellor Friedrich Merz some guidelines for improvement after the European ally said that “a whole nation is being humiliated” by the Iranian leadership in its war with the U.S.
“The Chancellor of Germany should spend more time on ending the war with Russia/Ukraine (Where he has been totally ineffective!), and fixing his broken Country, especially Immigration and Energy, and less time on interfering with those that are getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat, thereby making the World, including Germany, a safer place!” he said.
The German Embassy in Washington, D.C. did not immediately return a request for comment.
The president also took fresh aim at “radical left lunatics” as he renewed his calls to abolish the filibuster. He also called on “all of the Great Republican People of Louisiana” to vote Bill Cassidy out of office in the upcoming Republican primary.
Trump didn’t forget about the “seriously unfunny” Jimmy Kimmel, calling on ABC to take him off the air.
“When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television? People are angry. It better be soon!!!” he said.
An ABC/Disney representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s temperature appeared to cool when it came to the British royals, whom he fawned over during their state visit to the U.S.
“In Honor of the King and Queen of the United Kingdom, who have just left the White House, soon headed back to their wonderful Country, I will be removing the Tariffs and Restrictions on Whiskey having to do with Scotland’s ability to work with the Commonwealth of Kentucky on Whiskey and Bourbon,” he announced.
“The King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking! A wonderful Honor to have them both in the U.S.A.”
