New Yorker Cartoon Imagines All The Absurd Guesses From Trump In Cognitive Test
Image via Benjamin Clapp / Shutterstock.com
US president Donald Trump has emphasized enough about being awarded top marks for a cognitive test, even though the last five questions got “very hard.”
However, people have come to realize that the exam he “aced,” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), isn’t an IQ test of sorts, but a set of measures used to determine cognitive dysfunction, like early signs of Alzheimer’s. The MoCA’s designer, Dr Ziad Nasreddine, also confirmed that the test is supposed to be easy for anyone with functioning cognitive abilities.
Questions in the MoCA include asking respondents to name animals, copy simple drawings, and rank numbers in ascending and descending orders.
Veteran artist Barry Blitt’s new cartoon, published by the New Yorker magazine, at least gives some credit to Trump for his performance in the test, imagining that he must have thought out of the box in order to “ace” it.
Blitt recreated the quiz’s format to depict what the president might have answered to warrant a high score.
In the section where participants are supposed to name animals, Trump is imagined to have labeled pictures of a lion, rhinoceros and camel as Gus, Jeff and Bob.
Under “copy cube,” the president is envisioned to have answered, “cube.” Technically, he’s not wrong.
POTUS hasn’t claimed to have received full marks for the exam, so there might be some areas he didn’t fare so well in. In Blitt’s cartoon, the faces of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama are displayed alongside a picture of a pineapple to get respondents to indicate the odd one out. ‘Trump’ circles the Democrat.
You can click on the image in the tweet below to view this brilliant artwork in full.
In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, the President passes his cognitive test with flying colors.https://t.co/Owbb3WRV7n
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) July 23, 2020
[via The New Yorker, cover image via Benjamin Clapp / Shutterstock.com]
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