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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Feb 1, 2026, 04:06 PM Feb 1

Is Trump OK? What He Isn't Telling the American Public. [View all]

.President Donald Trump repeatedly tells Americans he has taken cognitive exams and passed them easily. He has not released the records. What remains available for public evaluation is observable behavior, a documented history of false self-reporting, and a growing body of expert warnings framed explicitly as risk rather than diagnosis. In the gap between assertion and evidence sits something unusual in modern American politics: a presidency asking for trust while declining the verification that trust ordinarily requires.

President Donald Trump was not asked about his mental fitness. He raised the subject himself.

In a recent Oval Office meeting captured on video, the president shifted from prepared remarks into an unsolicited account of cognitive testing. He said he had taken cognitive exams. He said he had taken them multiple times. He said he had passed them easily. He said he had “aced” them.

He did not identify the tests, the clinicians who administered them, or the dates involved. No medical documentation accompanied the claims. No underlying cognitive test records, serial scores, or clinician documentation have been released publicly at any point during his presidency.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/is-trump-ok-what-he-isnt-telling

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