Group of Republicans Are Calling on Biden to Take Same Cognitive Test Democrats Demanded of Trump

Leah Barkoukis | June 18, 2021 10:30 AM

In 2018, then-President Donald Trump requested, as part of his annual physical exam, to undergo a cognitive test. He ended up receiving a perfect score, 30 out of 30, on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, with then-White House physician Ronny Jackson noting afterward that he "has absolutely no cognitive or mental issues whatsoever."

Now, a group of Republican lawmakers, led by Jackson, who currently represents Texas's 13th Congressional District, is calling on President Biden to undergo the same test "so the American people know the full mental and intellectual health of their president."

In a letter to Biden, the lawmakers expressed concern over Biden's "forgetfulness and cognitive difficulties," which they say "have been prominently on display over the past year."

Examples include forgetting his defense secretary's name, the name of the Pentagon and DoD in March; confusion over the time of day and lawmakers' titles in February; his Amtrak story that didn't add up in May; and forgetting the first line of the Declaration of Independence, when he said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing."

"Most school-age children could recite that famous and revered patriotic phrase by heart, but you could not," the lawmakers wrote.