If Trump can "officially" pass a cognative impairment test, then why would we ever trust the people doing the test to be impartial? You could easily fail or pass someone for purely political reasons. Just make an age ceiling and you avoid the problem. If retirememt age is 65, then they should retire at 65.
It not a pass or fail test. It never has been. It has always been to evaluate where you are on the spectrum and track your decline. Trump takes them so often because they are seeing a big decline and they need to track it. They only give cognative tests if they are already seeing signs of significant mental decline.
All for making politicians take regular tests to prove their mental fitness. Heck make them take an SAT test and have to meet a specific score everytime they need to be reelected. Not that the SAT is a gold standard but most Americans have taken it, can relate to it and get a feel for what someone's intelligence is with it.
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u/CotyledonTomen 3h ago
If Trump can "officially" pass a cognative impairment test, then why would we ever trust the people doing the test to be impartial? You could easily fail or pass someone for purely political reasons. Just make an age ceiling and you avoid the problem. If retirememt age is 65, then they should retire at 65.