As we watched former President Joe Biden continue to decline during his one and thankfully only term, the cries for the often incoherent leader to take a cognitive test increased to a roar. Although the calls came mostly from the conservative side, even some liberals encouraged him to take one and make the whole issue go away.
Of course, it would only go away if he passed it with flying colors—the way that Donald Trump has done multiple times—and his team just couldn’t take the chance, according to a book set to be published in July:
Months before President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was forced to abandon his re-election campaign, his top White House aides debated having him undergo a cognitive test to prove his fitness for a second term but ultimately decided against the move, according to a forthcoming book.
The account illustrates the degree to which Mr. Biden’s top aides harbored deep fears about how voters viewed his age and mental acuity. The book, “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” by Tyler Pager of The New York Times, Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal and Isaac Arnsdorf of The Washington Post, is set to be released in July.
🚨 WHY WON’T BIDEN TAKE A COGNITIVE TEST?
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 9, 2024
He literally got LOST trying to find his way off stage for over 30 seconds here.
Clearly has NO CLUE where he is. pic.twitter.com/Er079OIM88
Biden’s handlers—who as we reported remained delusional till the bitter end about their boss’ condition—thought he could pass the test, but were worried that by even talking about the subject they would raise more questions:
Mr. Biden’s aides were confident that he would pass a cognitive test, according to the book, but they worried that the mere fact of his taking one would raise new questions about his mental abilities. At the same time, Mr. Biden’s longtime doctor, Kevin O’Connor, had told aides he would not take the 81-year-old president’s political standing into consideration when treating him.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, has no such concerns:
Trump got his annual physical and made sure to get a cognitive test… unlike Biden.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 12, 2025
“I wanted to be a little different than Biden. I took a cognitive test, and I don't know what to tell you other than I got every answer right."
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The inner circle’s decision to not let him do the test occurred in February ’24, according to the book:
The discussion took place in February 2024, a few weeks before Mr. Biden’s final White House physical exam and a period preceding some of his most damaging public episodes.
A representative for Mr. Biden declined to comment.
The same month that Biden aides considered the cognitive test, Robert K. Hur, the special counsel who investigated Mr. Biden’s handling of classified documents, released a report concluding that the president was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Mr. Biden held a late-night news conference to deliver an angry response in which he referred to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico and declared, “My memory is fine.”
The reasons behind the Biden inner circle’s decision to not take the test are hardly surprising; they simply couldn’t take the risk that he would fail miserably. I for one, however, am enjoying the information that is coming out with all these books. Among other things, the details show how what RedState was reporting all along—and the mainstream media was covering up—was true.
They tried to foist a president who couldn’t handle the job on us, and thankfully, they failed.
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