Trump Brags About ‘Hard’ IQ Test Scores, Completely Missing That It Was Just a Dementia Check.NH
President Donald Trump appeared to boast about his results on a dementia screening test while speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One.
The president, 79, claimed on Monday, Oct. 27, to have taken an “IQ test” at Walter Reed Medical Center, challenging Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who are 44 and 36 years old, respectively — to take the same exam.
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“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,’ ” the president said. “I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”
He continued, “Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”
Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, “a 10-minute assessment designed to identify signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s,” according to The New Republic.
In April, Trump’s physician said in a memo that the president had undergone the MoCA during his annual physical exam at Walter Reed and had received a perfect score.
The president was also given the test in 2018, according to NBC News, and allegedly scored 30 out of 30 on the exam then, too. In 2020, he challenged former President Joe Biden to take the test, and later described one section of the assessment during a Fox News appearance.
“It’s like you’ll go: Person, woman, man, camera, TV,” he said at the time. “So they say, ‘Could you repeat that?’ So I said, ‘Yeah. So it’s person, woman, man, camera, TV.’ ‘Okay, that’s very good. If you get it in order, you get extra points.’ “
He added, “They say nobody gets it in order, it’s actually not that easy. But for me it was easy. And that’s not an easy question.”
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 22, 2025.
Canadian neurologist Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, who created the MoCA test in 1996, told NBC News that the screening should not be used to measure intelligence.
“There are no studies showing that this test is correlated to IQ tests,” Nasreddine said. “The purpose of it was not to determine persons who have a low IQ level. So we cannot say that this test reflects somebody’s IQ.”
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Trump returned to Walter Reed earlier this month for another check-up, but it’s not clear if he took the MoCa once more then. During the visit, the president underwent lab testing, advanced imaging, and “preventive health assessments,” according to a summary of the exam from White House physician Sean Barbabella.
While speaking with reporters on Air Force One Monday, Trump said an MRI he’d undergone earlier this month had shown “perfect” results. He did not disclose why he received the scan.
