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 cognitive test, I think, four times, and I've got nothing wrong. That's what the American people want," Trump said.
"Describing the early screen for dementia as the standard, he has passed four times. Two times in his telling, or last night he said it was only three," Wallace observed. "So the two answers he's given us are three and four times he's been administered an early screening test for dementia, that he seems to brag about passing the way one would brag about, I don't know, the LSAT."
Wallace then noted that Trump "forgetting how many times he's even taken the cognitive test" was "not so encouraging," and reminded viewers that Trump had been publicly mentioning being tested for cognitive function during his first term.
"I don't remember if either of you were here the day that he first did 'man. Woman. Tomato. Tamale. Potato,' but I remember being stunned that he was the source," she said, before acknowledging that dementia was a "wrenching" disease for many Americans taking care of elderly family members.
"And anyone who has a loved one with any of those diseases knows exactly what the test is," she said. "It is an early screen. It's not perfect, but it's a screening test for cognitive decline. And right now we have this dissonance with the commander-in-chief talking about acing a screen for cognitive decline, a test that he says he's taken four times and three times."
"So somewhere between 3 and 4 times, and then bragging about acing it," Wallace added. "What are we even to do with this?"
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