Definitely not an aptitude test. It was a very simple one-page cognitive test (the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) Trump took back in 2018. The purpose of the test is to detect early signs of dementia or cognitive impairment. No president is required to take any cognitive test, much less any aptitude test. Trump’s results from an actual general aptitude test would be informative and likely hilarious since he is functionally illiterate. Easily the least knowledgeable and informed president in American history. Shows little intellectual curiosity, has no sense of logic, either deductive or inductive, and lacks even basic quantitative reasoning skills.
What a load.
You ready for another chess match?
When I was 25, when recovering my a neurological illness thought then to be multiple sclerosis, I was about as functional as Biden is today. I had trouble navigating a grocery checkout and keeping track of what was happening.
I was unable to work, but I got myself up outta bed, got my car and drove the Eccles Library at the UofU Meciical Center, and spent the day reading all I could find in the medical journals that related to my health. I developed exercises to deliberately check my memory, which I still do today. I made it an objective to scan my surroundings and my perception looking for missed stuff.
Biden doesn't do any of that. Never did. He's always been a "skater", a weather-vane reflexive politician who doesn't even care what is true. Lying is not second nature to him. It's all he knows.
I've known quite a few people like that. Very sociable, very likeable. They are always reading stuff into you and trying to say what you want to hear.
Biden is the perfect fit for the job of being an unthinking, unquestioning Party Man, the most manipulatable President in US History.
The good thing about that, in the view of real power brokers, is that it is reflexive, and needs little pushing.
Trump is nobody's man, and the Press mistakes that for being every conceivable evil for the agenda.
The way you make it out suggests to me that either you just believe the Press, or you actually are committed yourself to the "Establishment" Program. Would make sense if you are, say, an executive for Rio Tinto, or have vested interests in business which are benefited by reducing competitive opportunities or are inherently benefited by your social milieu.
I am just the old has-been who for all of my life has been a non-joiner to the crusade, though friends and relatives have been very involved. I just don't believe in it.
Trump is possibly the victim of his chosen advisors to some extent, and obviously also the dupe of some of his Establishment men he's included in his circle, who have played him pretty badly.
But his mental acuity is still pretty good. You mistake his decisions for being uniformed or illogical when it's just different values, different information, and rhetorical pandering to his base.
He is not a politician, and his inexperience in politics is more to the point of his weaknesses.
