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The main article on HuffPost this morning (shown above with my background added) was:

Riot Roh-Roh: Donald Trump Drags Nikki Haley In Massive Jan. 6 Blunder.

I didn’t know what “roh-roh” meant so turned to The Urban Dictionary: “Roh- Roh was originally one of the many iconic Scooby-Doo sayings but has been turned into a phrase used at times of wrongdoing or mistake to make people laugh or lighten the mood.”

Trump’s sing-songy 22 second gaff was published in several tweets included in the HuffPost article. I doubt I’ll ever get one of my tweets republished anywhere but I figured I’d make my own (see top of page) by adding a background of the MoCA test Trump brags about having aced.

After writing the above the following was published in RawStory (summarizing a Washngton Post article):

Trump’s latest mental decline defense undercut by creator of his cognitive test.

Excerpt:

As the report points out, the former president brought up the test before a New Hampshire crowd this week, explaining, “I think it was 35, 30 questions. They always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this, or that — a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?’ Okay? And that goes on for three or four [questions] and then it gets harder and harder and harder.”

Here’s more:

However, as the Post is reporting, the person behind the creation of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) stated the whale in the test that Trump believes he identified is non-existent.

Speaking with Post, the Canadian neurologist Ziad Nasreddine, explained that in the three versions of the test being used, “I don’t think we have a version with a whale.”

The report adds that Nasreddine added that maybe Trump was remembering the test wrong or was using a “hypothetical” to describe it.

The report also notes that Trump’s boasts about passing the test has long been a source of amusement to Republican insiders including those attending a meeting on June, 4, 2020 where Trump “suddenly asked the assembled crowd if he should challenge Biden to a cognitive test.”

In fact, every time either President Biden or Mr. Trump speaks (or in the later’s case, posts on Truth Social) they are challenging each other to a cognitive test. You don’t have to be a neurologist like Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian who created the MoCA test to determine which of these men show indications of serious cognitive decline.

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