{"id":37647,"date":"2023-09-11T22:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/trump-is-extremely-touchy-about-voters-saying-he-is-not-mentally-up-for-the-job-of-being-president\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:04:50","slug":"trump-is-extremely-touchy-about-voters-saying-he-is-not-mentally-up-for-the-job-of-being-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/trump-is-extremely-touchy-about-voters-saying-he-is-not-mentally-up-for-the-job-of-being-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Extremely Touchy About Voters Saying He Is Not \u201cMentally Up for the Job\u201d of Being President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Last week, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> released a poll showing that <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/documents\/WSJ_Poll_Aug_2023.pdf\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/documents\/WSJ_Poll_Aug_2023.pdf&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/documents\/WSJ_Poll_Aug_2023.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">49%<\/a> of registered voters believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> is not \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/bidens-age-economic-worries-endanger-re-election-in-2024-wsj-poll-finds-67a7bba8?mod=hp_lead_pos4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentally up for the job\u201d of being president<\/a>. How did the former guy take the news? We\u2019ll give you two guesses, but you will definitely only need one.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, after apparently having gotten around to reading or having the article read to him, Trump <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042877248242940\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042877248242940&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042877248242940\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raged<\/a> on Truth Social that the whole thing was was clearly a plot on <em>Journal<\/em> owner <strong>Rupert Murdoch<\/strong>\u2019s part to make <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> look good. \u201cIn a phony and probably rigged Wall Street Journal poll, coming out of nowhere to softened the mental incompetence blow that is so obvious with Crooked Joe Biden, they ask about my age and mentality,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhere did that come from? A few years ago I was the only one to agree to a mental acuity test, &amp; ACED IT. Now that the Globalists at Fox &amp; the WSJ have failed to push their 3rd tier candidate to success, they do this. Well, I hereby challenge Rupert Murdoch &amp; Sons, Biden, WSJ heads, to acuity tests!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">So, just a few things to note: One, it\u2019s pretty unlikely that Murdoch, whose properties were basically state-run TV when Trump was president\u2014and whose <em>New York Post<\/em> leads the field in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/new-york-post-reporter-refused-to-put-name-on-hunter-biden-article-report-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obsessive <strong>Hunter Biden<\/strong> coverage<\/a>\u2014wants to do Joe Biden any favors. Two, as others have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/trumps-mental-acuity-challenge-gets-080409785.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>, Trump has never taken a \u201cmental acuity test\u201d; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-amazing-cognitive-test_n_5f18eca0c5b6128e68208922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took<\/a> the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in 2020, which is used to test for signs of dementia. (In other words, having \u201cACED IT\u201d is not something to brag about.)<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1700989846872010756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">And then, of course, there\u2019s the hilarious \u201cchallenge\u201d to Murdoch, Murdoch\u2019s sons, Biden, and various <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> brass\u2014the terms of which Trump stipulated in a second post, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042977918767542\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042977918767542&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042977918767542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writing<\/a>: \u201cI will name the place and the test, and it will be a tough one. Nobody will come even close to me! We can also throw some physical activity into it. I just won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf club, with many very good players. To do so you need strength, accuracy, touch and, above all, mental toughness. Ask <strong>Bret Baier<\/strong> (Fox), a very good golfer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Ah, yes, nothing says, <em>I\u2019m confident in my abilities,<\/em> quite like, <em>I determine the test and the ground rules.<\/em> Also, \u201cI just won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf club\u201d sounds less impressive when you know he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/08\/donald-trump-megan-rapinoe-world-cup-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has a reputation for cheating at golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Anyway, this challenge comes just a few months after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/02\/donald-trump-mental-competency-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> that everyone running for president should have to take a \u201cmental competency test.\u201d So we can probably expect the former guy to soon require any voters questioning his presidential potential to take an IQ test as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, click<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/newsletter\/the-levin-report?itm_content=inline&amp;itm_campaign=levin-report-article-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>here<\/em><\/a> <em>to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/09\/donald-trump-mentally-up-for-the-job-of-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, The Wall Street Journal released a poll showing that 49% of registered voters believe that Donald Trump is not \u201cmentally up for the job\u201d of being president. How did the former guy take the news? We\u2019ll give you two guesses, but you will definitely only need one. On Sunday, after apparently having gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,54,643,3781],"class_list":{"0":"post-37647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-2024-election","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-joe-biden","11":"tag-rupert-mudoch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}