Overview
- The White House physician’s three-page memo following a May 26 Walter Reed exam reported that President Trump “remains in excellent health,” is “fully fit to carry out all duties,” and scored 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
- The president posted the perfect MoCA result on Truth Social, called it proof of “extreme intelligence,” said it was his fourth perfect score, and urged that candidates be required to take similar tests.
- Clinicians and the MoCA’s developer stressed the test is a 10-minute dementia screen designed to detect mild cognitive impairment and is not an intelligence or IQ test, with scores of 26 or higher generally considered normal.
- Several physicians said the memo omitted standard cardiac specifics—such as calcium score, plaque description, CAD-RADS and ejection fraction—and questioned why coronary CT scans and repeat cognitive screens were done so frequently.
- The exchange has sharpened debate over presidential health transparency, leaving lawmakers and medical commentators calling for fuller data or independent review and keeping public trust in an elderly president at stake.