Trump also said cognitive tests should be mandatory for all presidential candidates.
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday suggested he and President Joe Biden should take cognitive exams together—echoing Biden’s Democratic allies who have also called on both candidates to take cognitive tests in the wake of the June 27 debate that raised questions about Biden’s mental fitness.Key Facts
Trump, 78, offered to “go with” Biden, 81, as he takes a cognitive test, writing on Truth Social that he would “take one also . . . for the first time we’ll be a team, and do it for the good of the Country.”
Trump said that all presidential candidates should be required to take cognitive and aptitude tests.
Trump has previously called on Biden to take a cognitive test, but this is the first time he’s asked the president to do so since the June 27 debate.
Prominent Democrats, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Reps. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi have also called on Biden and Trump to take cognitive tests since the debate, but Biden has rebuffed the calls, insisting in an interview with ABC News last week “every day I have that test,” referring to the challenges of his job.
