U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement about lowering the cost of drug prices, at the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 19, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
A physician and pulmonologist said President Donald Trump may have accidentally let it slip that White House doctors could be treating him for "cognitive impairment" based on one of the president's recent social media posts.
During a Friday posting spree to his Truth Social account, Trump announced that doctors declared him to be "in 'PERFECT HEALTH,' and that I 'ACED' (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take." According to Dr. Vin Gupta, Trump was boasting taking the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (or MoCA), which doctors use when they're concerned a patient may have "age-related cognitive decline, so-called mild cognitive impairment or early stage dementia."
"Maybe people are forgetting linear thinking. They lose their train of thought," Gupta explained. "So we do something called a MoCA test, Montreal Cognitive Assessment tool, to to see is there issues with recall."
Gupta said the frequency Trump brags about passing cognitive tests suggests that the White House's medical team is likely so concerned about Trump's cognitive health that they're administering far more than the standard number of tests given to a typical elderly patient.
"It's OK to do that once or twice a year, perhaps," Gupta said. "But he talks about doing it maybe weekly, or almost every single time he does a truth ... Maybe he's not listening to his physicians. It seems like they're trying to give him some good advice, but it's a mixed bag. But this is not the flex that he thinks it is ... you don't do this every other day and somehow use that as evidence that you're cognitively there."
"Those that tend to do Montreal tests with that level of frequency usually are worried about the presence of early stage dementia or cognitive impairment," he added. "So he might be ruling himself into something that he doesn't want to rule himself into."
At the age of 78 years and seven months, Trump was the oldest person to ever be administered the presidential oath of office beating out former President Joe Biden, who was 78 years and 61 days old as of his inauguration in 2021. Trump will turn 80 years old in June.
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