Donald Trump did himself no favors Saturday in the cognitive-decline-off that he and President Joe Biden are currently engaged in.
The MAGA crowd has longed targeted the 81-year-old Biden with accusations of mental decline and dementia, and that was something the 78-year-old Trump — who has also had his share of missteps during speeches of late — looked to pounce on while speaking at Saturday’s Turning Point Action convention in Detroit.
“He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means,” Trump told the crowd. “I think he should take a cognitive test like I did.
“Doc Ronny Johnson,” Trump said seconds later. “Does everyone know Ronny Johnson, congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor, and he said I was the healthiest president, he feels, in history. So, I liked him very much indeed immediately.”
One big problem, there.
Ronny Jackson, the congressman from Texas, was Trump’s White House doctor. Not Ronny Johnson.
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And if you are going to claim someone is suffering from cognitive decline, it is a bad look to miss on something that should be so well known to you, as Trump did here.
That, of course, did not escape the anti-Trump crowd on social media.
The Biden-Harris X, formerly Twitter, account quickly reposted the clip, quoting Trump, and then pointing out that it was Ronny Jackson and not Ronny Johnson who was his doctor.
There were plenty more folks pointing out the irony in the former president’s misstep in the wake of the fumble. It will be interesting to see if he addresses it moving forward.