Donald Trump's latest boast about his brainpower has renewed concern in Washington over what his medical team is not saying, after a doctor warned on US television that his repeated cognitive tests look less like a show of strength and more like medical 'surveillance' for an underlying problem.
Trump used Truth Social to trumpet the results of what he said was his third physical since returning to the White House. In the same post, he revealed he had again taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a screening exam often used to pick up early cognitive decline, and claimed a perfect score. That victory lap prompted MSNBC's streaming channel, MS Now, to ask its senior medical analyst to unpack what the test actually measures and why someone might be given it so often.
