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Trump Boasted About His Physical Exam to Lawmakers

February 2, 2018 · 7:12 am ET · Leave a Comment

After the press was escorted out of the conference room, Breitbart News obtained an audio recording of the rest of President Trump’s speech to Republican members of Congress “as he delighted the crowd by discussing the details of his cognitive exam at Walter Reed Military Hospital. He boasted that he got a ‘30-for-30’ score… He said that in the beginning of the test, he had to identify sketches of animals, which was pretty easy.”

“Later in the test, he explained, he had to repeat disassociated words as the test administrators asked him to repeat them at different points in the test: ‘Let me tell you, those last ten questions are hard,’ he said, and added. ‘There aren’t a lot of people that can do that.'”

“Trump said he was up to nine minutes on the treadmill for his physical, even though he was only asked to do five before the doctor asked him if he wanted to keep going. ‘I said, “What do I have to prove?”’ he said. ‘I’m telling you, I could have gone much longer.’”

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