Nicolle Wallace alarmed after Trump admits to taking multiple 'cognitive decline' tests
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MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace on December 10, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via MS NOW / YouTube)
President Donald Trump recently admitted on Truth Social that he was given multiple screenings to gauge his cognitive function. MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace thinks more Americans should be concerned about whether the president is of sound mind.
During a Wednesday segment on "Deadline: White House," Wallace began a monologue by playing a clip of Trump discussing his Truth Social post with reporters on Air Force One. The president was seen boasting about passing the dementia screening tests in front of multiple physicians.
"I've taken the cognitivetest, I think, four times, andI've got nothing wrong. That'swhat the American people want," Trump said.
"Describing the early screenfor dementia as the standard,he has passed four times. Twotimes in his telling, or lastnight he said it was only three," Wallace observed. "So the two answers he's givenus are three and four timeshe's been administered an earlyscreening test for dementia,that he seems to brag aboutpassing the way one would bragabout, I don't know, the LSAT."
Wallace then noted that Trump "forgetting how many timeshe's even taken the cognitivetest" was "not so encouraging," and reminded viewers that Trump had been publicly mentioning being tested for cognitive function during his first term.
"Idon't remember if either of youwere here the day that he firstdid 'man. Woman. Tomato. Tamale.Potato,' but I rememberbeing stunned that he was thesource," she said, before acknowledging that dementia was a "wrenching" disease for many Americans taking care of elderly family members.
"And anyone who has aloved one with any of thosediseases knows exactly what thetest is," she said. "It is an early screen.It's not perfect, but it's ascreening test for cognitivedecline. And right now we havethis dissonance with thecommander-in-chief talkingabout acing a screen forcognitive decline, a test thathe says he's taken four timesand three times."
"So somewherebetween 3 and 4 times, and then bragging about acing it," Wallace added. "What are we even to do with this?"
Watch the segment below: