Late-night host Seth Meyers concerned about Trump's cognition (Photo: Screen capture)
Late-night host Seth Meyers called for the president to do another cognitive exam as Donald Trump spirals into another rant calling "affordability" a made-up work by Democrats.
This week, Trump spoke at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he went off on a tangent about “affordability,” saying it is “a fake word that they use.”
Trump frequently refers to things he doesn't like as "fake," such as "fake news," the fake 2020 election, fake scandals that are "hoaxes" and "witch hunts," or even "fake polls."
According to Trump, “They caused the affordability problem. It’s called high prices. They came up with this word. They’re good at coming up with words." They, in this case, were Democrats. He then explained his new invention of changing the word "Democrat" to "Dumocrat," outlining how it's spelled to the crowd, and neglecting that the word "dumb" is spelled with a "b."
“When your doctors heard that, did they say, ‘Hey buddy, you wanna come take a fifth cognitive test? We think you’ll ace it!” Meyers questioned Trump.
“I get you think it’s cool that you’re four for four in dementia tests; it’s not a good sign that they keep making you take them,” Meyers said.
Trump has had four of what he calls cognitive exams, which are actually tests to examine the degree to which his brain might be changing over time. He bragged that he got a "perfect score" on the test he claimed was difficult.
Meyers played through some of the older Trump clips where he made lofty campaign promises like, "We will end inflation and make America affordable again. Prices will come down, you just watch. They'll come down and they'll come down fast. I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again. We're gonna get your energy prices down by 50 percent. Groceries, cars, hou-- everything. We're going to get the prices down. We will end inflation and make America affordable again. A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper. Getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs. They call it groceries. Bacon, lettuce, tomato, all the everything is so much higher than it ever was, and we're going to bring that down."
Meyers commented, "Looking back, this might have been a bad sign."
He then replayed the clip of Trump explaining what "groceries" were.
"We should have known he wasn't gonna be able to bring down the price of groceries because it seemed like he just found out about groceries," Meyers said. "He's talking about it like he's doing an exposé for 'Dateline.'"