“ACED IT. AGAIN.”
Trump’s cognitive test changes animals every week. This time it’s the giraffe.
YouTubeAlso on X: Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) ↗
Tuesday night in Greenville, Trump walked the crowd through the famously brutal cognitive test he keeps acing. “The first questions are easy; you have a lion, a snake, a bear and a giraffe, and they say, which is the giraffe?”
Strange. Last Wednesday in Bullhead City, Arizona, it was the same four animals and a different question: “Which one is the lion?” Same test, same zoo, new answer key. The questions change every week. The score never does.
The real thing, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, has a naming section with three animals: a lion, a rhinoceros and a camel. No snake. No bear. No giraffe. You don’t pick one out, you name each of them. He has now described the test more times than he has described it correctly.
About a minute before the giraffe, he did give the crowd a heads-up: “Someday I won’t be able to get out of a chair or something, say this is not good.” Something to look forward to.
Source files
- Aaron Rupar: the “which is the giraffe” clip, Greenville rally
- Aaron Rupar: the “won’t be able to get out of a chair” clip, same rally
- Trump Archive: transcript of the Greenville rally, from 01:26:52
- GOP (YouTube): full Bullhead City rally, 14 Oct, the “which one is the lion” version
- MoCA administration instructions: the naming task, lion, rhinoceros, camel





