U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
During a lengthy Tuesday night, December 9 post on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump bragged that "There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me" — noting that he has undergone three cognitive tests.
Trump's post comes at a time when his physical and mental well being are the subject of countless media reports. During former President Joe Biden's four years in the White House, Trump relentlessly mocked him as "Sleepy Joe." Now, Trump is being bombarded with reports that he is falling asleep during Cabinet meetings.
Trump pushed back against those reports in his Truth Social post, writing, "I go out of my way to do long, thorough and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks. — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know."
Trump's post is receiving a lot of scrutiny on X.com, formerly Twitter.
MS NOW's Chris Hayes tweeted, "I guess the president just announced he recently took his latest in a series of cognitive tests, this one in front of a room full of medical personnel observing him?"
Other journalists weighed in as well.
Roger Sollenberger, formerly of the Daily Beast, tweeted, "Wonder what kind of conversation we’d be having if everyone in America were forced to read every word of this post out loud, all the way through."
The 74's Jim Roberts wrote, #25A."
TikTok News' John Aravosi commented, "This pretty much confirms Trump is having serious health problems. The first part of the tweet is a feint. The main purpose was to counter the rumors of his failing health. And mentioning that he had to go for three cognitive tests? What healthy senior has to go for three cognitive tests? I don’t think my parents ever went for one, and they lived to be 87 and 94. Everything Trump says is a lie. This is a confession."
Former Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan), a libertarian/conservative Never Trumper, posted, "If anyone else wrote something like this, it would be universally acknowledged that the person is mentally unstable."