Trump challenges Biden to cognitive test but confuses name of doctor who tested him

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Donald Trump on Saturday night suggested President Joe Biden should have to take a cognitive test, only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence...

The moment came as Trump was questioning Bidens mental acuity, something he often does on the campaign trail and social media...

But online critics quickly seized on his Saturday night gaffe, with the Biden campaign which has long fought off criticism about the Democratic presidents verbal missteps posting a clip of the moment minutes later...

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment that Trump took includes remembering a list of spoken words; listening to a list of random numbers and repeating them backward; naming as many words that begin with, say, the letter F as possible within a minute; accurately drawing a cube; and describing concrete ways that two objects like a train and a bicycle are alike...

During the same speech in Detroit, Trump also referenced a video clip widely circulated online in Republican circles where Biden is seen during the recently concluded Group of Seven summit in Italy watching skydivers land with flags from different nations...

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