{"id":259730,"date":"2026-05-04T17:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=259730"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:58:17","slug":"are-you-as-good-at-math-as-donald-trump-us-president-says-he-took-cognitive-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/259730\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you as good at math as Donald Trump? US president says he took cognitive tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump used a Florida rally to claim once more that he “aced” three cognitive tests, seemingly trying to dispel persistent scrutiny surrounding the 79-year-old’s mental health, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Speaking at The Villages on Friday, Trump’s cognitive test “perfection” boast included identifying animals and arithmetic as examples.<\/p>\n

“The first question is very easy. It’s a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, ‘which one is the bear’?”<\/p>\n

He went on to say: “There’s a very standard test, but very tough around those last 10 questions… I’m in a room of brilliant people, but a lot of you wouldn’t have been able to answer those 10 questions.”<\/p>\n

As an example of the “tough” ones, he shared: “You know, they say, ‘take a number, any number’, ‘OK, I’ll take 99’, ‘multiply times nine’, ‘OK’, ‘divide it by three’, ‘good’, ‘add 4,293’, ‘that’s good’, ‘divide by two, subtract 93, divide by nine, what’s your answer?’”<\/p>\n

He continued: “There aren’t a lot of people that get it right. I got it right.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump used a Florida rally to claim once more that he “aced” three cognitive tests, seemingly trying to dispel persistent scrutiny surrounding the 79-year-old’s mental health, Euronews writes. Speaking at The Villages on Friday, Trump’s cognitive test “perfection” boast included identifying animals and arithmetic as examples. “The first question is very easy. It’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":259722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259731,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259730\/revisions\/259731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}