After telling supporters that President Joe Biden ought to be made to take a cognitive test, Donald Trump mispronounced the name of the physician who gave the exam to him in 2018.
“He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means,” Trump declared on Saturday while speaking at a Turning Point Action convention in Detroit. He ought to do a cognitive exam, just like I did, in my opinion.
However, a little while later, the outgoing president called Texas Republican Representative Ronny Jackson, who served as the White House physician from 2013 to 2018, “Doc. Ronny Johnson.”
Trump forgets Ronny Jackson’s name while attacking Biden for purported cognitive decline: “Doc Ronny Johnson. Does everyone know Ronny Johnson?” pic.twitter.com/UFZltgFKt2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 15, 2024
“Doc Ronny Johnson. Does everyone know Ronny Johnson, congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor, and he said I was the healthiest president, he feels, in history, so I liked him very much indeed immediately,” Trump stated.
Trump accuses Biden of having cognitive degeneration while forgetting Ronny Jackson’s name: “Dr. Ronny Johnson. Does Ronny Johnson have a broad following?
After Trump completed a cognitive exam in 2018, Jackson stated that he saw “no issues whatsoever” with Trump’s mental capacity. He went on to say that Trump was “very sharp” and “articulate,” and that he received a perfect score on a test that measures dementia.
The Trump campaign called Joe Biden a “brain-dead zombie” on Friday following the appearance of a video purporting to depict Biden straying from other leaders during this week’s G7 summit.
“From Italy to the United Kingdom to New York, millions of people around the world woke up to headlines about crooked Joe Biden’s cognitive decline on full display at the G7 Summit,” Trump’s spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt stated.
Later, it was discovered that the footage had been edited, and a broader view of the same incident revealed the president had turned to confront a recently landed skydiver.
The video was extensively circulated on right-wing media platforms following the Biden campaign’s condemning statement, which listed 78 things that Trump had done this year, including numerous felony convictions, in honor of his 78th birthday this week.
“Happy birthday, Donald. You’re a crook, a failure, a fraud, and a threat to our democracy, economy, rights, and future,” James Singer, a Biden campaign spokesman stated.
