'Beg him to stop': Trump's brag about basic brain health test alarms ex-White House doc
Raw Story reports:
A former White House cardiologist has begged Donald Trump to stop bragging about his mental health — as his next checkup deadline looms.
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as Dick Cheney's cardiologist during the George Bush administration, urged the current president to stop gloating about cognitive tests he's done. Trump bragged yesterday about results that he's referenced many times, prompting Reiner to note a new cognitive test will be administered to the president soon.
Trump said yesterday, "I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it 3 times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me.
"It starts off with an easy question and by the time you get to the middle it gets tougher — mathematical equations and things."
The test Trump referred to during his statement is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a 30-point exam that takes roughly 10 minutes to complete.
Reiner quoted the video of Trump explaining his cognitive test results, and urged the president to stop bragging about his health.
He wrote, "If I were one of the president’s advisers I would beg him to stop bragging about doing well on a dementia screening tool which requires the patient to identify a camel and subtract 7 from 100.
"I do agree that all candidates for POTUS should have comprehensive physical exams, and the data should be made public. The presidents next annual comprehensive examination is due next month."
Healthcare strategist Adam Brown MD, replying to Reiner, mocked the president for bragging about passing the quick cognitive abilities test.
Brown wrote, "John, camels are quite challenging to identify, as is subtracting by 7. Clearly, this is genius-level stuff."
My comments:
Typical Demented Donnie here. He handles the MoCA like he describes his golf trophies. His long standing golf cheating is common knowledge and only emphasizes his pathological lying and flagrant cheating.
The expected result is a perfect or darn near perfect score unless one is fairly far along in dementia where their functioning is showing significant deterioration.
The fact that disgraced, demoted former White House Physician Ronny Jackson administered it to tRUMP in and of itself makes the results suspect. What’s more, tRUMP when bragging about it, actually mispronounced Jackson’s name as “Johnson!” Jackson was called back to active duty following his retirement and court-martialed for numerous infractions (including improper prescribing and mismanaging the White House Infirmary), and was demoted from Rear Admiral Lower Half to Captain. He continues to call himself an Admiral.
As for tRUMP’s claim to being the only President to pass the MoCA; I have no idea if this is true or not, but my retort would be: probably because you are the only President whose behavior has ever required it—that’s not something to brag about. In fact, it raises very serious questions.
I, and many other health care professionals, have long advocated for requiring tRUMP to face extensive screening by an impartial panel of neuroscientists composed of at least psychiatrists (including a forensic psychiatrist), clinical psychologists, neurologists, with appropriate laboratory tests and medical imaging to include a brain MRI, an FDG PET scan, and any other tests deemed necessary.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-reiner-2676628034/
A former White House cardiologist has begged Donald Trump to stop bragging about his mental health — as his next checkup deadline looms.
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as Dick Cheney's cardiologist during the George Bush administration, urged the current president to stop gloating about cognitive tests he's done. Trump bragged yesterday about results that he's referenced many times, prompting Reiner to note a new cognitive test will be administered to the president soon.
Trump said yesterday, "I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it 3 times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me.
"It starts off with an easy question and by the time you get to the middle it gets tougher — mathematical equations and things."
The test Trump referred to during his statement is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a 30-point exam that takes roughly 10 minutes to complete.
Reiner quoted the video of Trump explaining his cognitive test results, and urged the president to stop bragging about his health.
He wrote, "If I were one of the president’s advisers I would beg him to stop bragging about doing well on a dementia screening tool which requires the patient to identify a camel and subtract 7 from 100.
"I do agree that all candidates for POTUS should have comprehensive physical exams, and the data should be made public. The presidents next annual comprehensive examination is due next month."
Healthcare strategist Adam Brown MD, replying to Reiner, mocked the president for bragging about passing the quick cognitive abilities test.
Brown wrote, "John, camels are quite challenging to identify, as is subtracting by 7. Clearly, this is genius-level stuff."
My comments:
Typical Demented Donnie here. He handles the MoCA like he describes his golf trophies. His long standing golf cheating is common knowledge and only emphasizes his pathological lying and flagrant cheating.
The expected result is a perfect or darn near perfect score unless one is fairly far along in dementia where their functioning is showing significant deterioration.
The fact that disgraced, demoted former White House Physician Ronny Jackson administered it to tRUMP in and of itself makes the results suspect. What’s more, tRUMP when bragging about it, actually mispronounced Jackson’s name as “Johnson!” Jackson was called back to active duty following his retirement and court-martialed for numerous infractions (including improper prescribing and mismanaging the White House Infirmary), and was demoted from Rear Admiral Lower Half to Captain. He continues to call himself an Admiral.
As for tRUMP’s claim to being the only President to pass the MoCA; I have no idea if this is true or not, but my retort would be: probably because you are the only President whose behavior has ever required it—that’s not something to brag about. In fact, it raises very serious questions.
I, and many other health care professionals, have long advocated for requiring tRUMP to face extensive screening by an impartial panel of neuroscientists composed of at least psychiatrists (including a forensic psychiatrist), clinical psychologists, neurologists, with appropriate laboratory tests and medical imaging to include a brain MRI, an FDG PET scan, and any other tests deemed necessary.
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