The point isn't that the cognitive test is easy. The point is that Trump keeps bragging about it.

[Zorro]

Let’s imagine a disease called H-itis. The disease has one consistent symptom: Those who have contracted it cannot say the letter H.

All a doctor has to do to determine if someone is suffering from the ailment, then, is to ask a patient to recite the alphabet. If they stumble after G or jump from G to I, that’s a pretty good indicator that the unfortunate soul has H-itis.

Were I to come up to you and ask you to recite the alphabet, you’d likely do so without issue. It wouldn’t even seem like a test, just that I were for some reason questioning your basic literacy. If I explained that it was a test aimed at determining if you had the aforementioned invented disease, you’d probably shrug and accept it.

The preceding paragraphs are a test of its own, really; a measure of your ability to translate odd hypotheticals into topical subjects in American politics. Here, of course, you have the added hint of the headline and the photo, meaning that you likely passed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/10/point-isnt-that-cognitive-test-is-easy-point-is-that-trump-keeps-bragging-about-it/

[procon]

1. Trump thinks the test determines his intellectual prowess,

not simply that his mental functioning is somewhat higher than a turnip.

[Harker]

2. Perhaps on a good day.

I'm pretty sure a rutabaga could out think him any time.

[safeinOhio]

3. Have a reporter ask him to

Count backward from 100 by 7. We want proof.