First lady Jill Biden called it 'ridiculous' for GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley to demand cognitive function testing when politicians turn 75, a poke at...
Haley was referring to neurocognitive or “mental status” testing like the, a common tool for detecting dementia related to Alzheimer’s, stroke and other ailments. As White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo, conducted that test on Trump in January 2018.
Trump had declared himself a “very stable genius” to refute reports of erratic behavior that somePresident Donald Trump speaks with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Sept. 18, 2017. A year ago, Jackson, called Biden “brain dead” and rounded up three dozen other Republicans for a letter demanding he undergo such testing himself.Nine of the 38 Texans in the U.S. House would be subjected to the Haley test by the end of her first term. Sen. John Cornyn would face the test early in her second term. That includes House Appropriations Chair Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, 79 and Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, 81, and on the Democratic side, Houston Rep. Al Green, 75, and Austin Rep. Lloyd Doggett, 76, and four other septuagenarians: GOP Reps. Roger Williams of Austin and Michael Burgess of Pilot Point, and Reps. Sylvia Garcia and Sheila Jackson Lee, both Houston Democrats. The test also would apply to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, 81 – one of 13 octogenarians in Congress. President Joe Biden speaks about the Chinese surveillance balloon and other unidentified objects shot down by the U.S. military on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, after his annual medical exam.after Biden’s annual exam last month made no mention of cognitive testing. Dr. Kevin O’Connor described Biden as “a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.” Trump was 70 when he took office as the oldest person to become president, a record that Biden then smashed.. Todd became Washington Bureau Chief in 2009 and has covered East Texas, Dallas City Hall and politics since joining The News in 1989. He's been elected three times to the White House Correspondents’ Association board, with a term ending in 2023. Todd has a Master in Public Policy from Harvard and a BA from Johns Hopkins in international studies.
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