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Trump and Biden's slips of the tongue are provoking heated debates in the US election campaign. The state of Trump's mental fitness was now the topic of Fox News. The ex-president probably doesn't like the content.
Washington – The mental fitness and age of incumbent US President Joe Biden (81) have repeatedly made headlines in recent months. For example, while he was looking for a deceased member of parliament during a speech or mistaking French President Macron, his deputy Kamala Harris rejects critical allegations.
For Biden's election campaign opponent Donald Trump (77), moments like these are always opportunities for public ridicule. But the Democrats are also using Trump's promises for their election campaign. Most recently, Donald Trump's sanity was
discussed - and questioned - on
Fox News .
Trump brags about the results of his cognitive test – Fox News strategist calls it “embarrassing”
Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to address Democratic President Joe Biden's mental state and age. He publicly nicknamed him “Sleepy Joe” and described Biden, among other things, as “cognitively impaired.” Also the right-wing conservative TV station
Fox News
took up the topic last. On
The Five
last Wednesday (March 27), one of the hosts, Jeanine Pirro, asked Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov: "Trump took a cognitive ability test and passed it - why not Biden?"
Tarlov then explained that the test involved identifying animals and counting backwards by a factor of seven. “It’s something you give to people who have had traumatic accidents. It’s embarrassing when Trump refers to it,” says the Democratic strategist on
Fox News
. Trump took the test while in office. In a 2020 interview with former Fox News host Chris Wallace, he said he passed the mental fitness test with flying colors. Since then, the Republican has mentioned it on a number of occasions, telling another US news anchor a few months later: "I've proven that I'm all there because I passed the test." He also claimed that doctors in the state of Maryland were thrilled from his test result. “Rarely does anyone do what you just did,” Trump quoted the doctors as saying.
Identifying animals, repeating terms in the correct order: Trump mastered these questions “with flying colors”
Trump said at the time that he answered around 35 questions. The first ones were very easy, later ones became more difficult. "They say, 'Man, woman, man, camera, television.' And then they say, 'Can you repeat that?' So I said: 'Man, woman, man, camera, television.' If you repeat the correct order, you get extra points," the former US president explained
on
Fox News , according to
Newsweek
, giving an example of the task in the test.
But does this test really prove Trump's mental fitness? The Democratic strategist at
Fox News
doesn't seem so sure about that. The US news portal
Newsweek
also reports that the test is similar to another that is used to examine the early stages of dementia. This is very simple. For example, a person might be asked to draw a clock with a specific time or to identify a whale among other animals.
When it comes to his mental fitness, Trump has referred to a test for years. At Fox News, a strategist calls this “embarrassing.” © picture alliance/dpa/AP | Mike Stewart & X/@acyn
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Not just Joe Biden: Donald Trump's mental fitness is also in the media spotlight
In addition to Joe Biden, Trump has also repeatedly made embarrassing slips of the tongue and signs of confusion in recent months. During an acceptance speech in South Carolina, he forgot to mention his son and his wife and had to read their names off a piece of paper. He referred to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as the leader of Turkey and repeatedly confused Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Most recently, the Republican presidential candidate caused outrage with a disturbing video of Biden.