Trump doctors check 'how bad he's doing' as cognitive decline continues: psychologist

Frequent check-ups for Donald Trump could point to "monitoring" a health problem rather than finding it, a psychologist has claimed.

Dr. John Gartner believes the three Montreal Cognitive Assessments is to monitor an existing condition that could indicate just how rapid the president's cognitive decline is. Dr. Garter, speaking to The Daily Beast, says Trump "gave the game away" when boasting about his brilliant health aboard Air Force One.

Speaking in April this year, Trump says he "got every answer right" on the cognitive test. He would repeat this claim in October, saying he had passed a "very hard" test which "a low IQ person" would not manage to pass.

He said at the time, "They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. You give her an IQ test, have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed."

"I took– Those are very hard– They're really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don't think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know."

"When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions." Dr. Gartner believes these tests are to monitor an existing dementia condition than track for signs of it starting.

He claimed, "You know, he kind of gave the game away again, as he often does. You could maybe justify giving someone the MoCA once, just on their age, just as part of a physical. If you’re giving it to him three times, that means you’re not assessing dementia. That means you’re monitoring dementia."

"Because if you keep feeling like, no, he’s still got the symptoms, we’ve got to see how bad he’s doing now, we’ve got to check again, see how bad he’s doing now—I think they’re giving him cognitive tests and M.R.I.s every six months to monitor the progress of his dementia, and/or strokes."

Dr. Gartner has since suggested there has been a "change of some kind" in the president that can be linked to his mental decline.

He added, "We have to judge people against their own baseline, and if somebody doubles their rate of speed, that’s a mental status change of some kind."