Trump Wanders Through New Riff on ‘Tough Questions’ in Cognitive Test as He Lashes Out During Cabinet Meeting

Tommy Christopher Dec 2nd, 2025, 12:49 pm

President Donald Trump wandered through an augmented version of his riff about his cognitive test as he lashed out at the press during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Trump has spent years bragging about his performance on a test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA), which begins, as Trump himself has noted , with tasks like identifying animal drawings and progresses to a climax of knowing where you are and what day it is.

Over the years, it has become clear that Trump falsely equates the assessment with an “aptitude” or IQ test.

Trump held his final Cabinet meeting of the year, which was carried live on Tuesday’s

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