Jon Stewart Trolls Trump Cognitive Test Boasts With Flashback To Embarrassing Math Fail On Howard Stern Show

Jon Stewart's latest volley astatine President Donald Trump focused connected nan president's changeless boasting astir his cognitive wellness – and resurrected an aged clip of an embarrassing mathematics neglect to undermine his claims.

Trump, who turns 80 adjacent month, has been insistent that he is still perfectly healthy, some successful assemblage and mind. He has claimed connected galore occasions that he has "aced" multiple cognitive tests and is sharper than immoderate erstwhile president.

“I took 3 cognitive tests. Aced each of them, by nan way. ... I don’t deliberation Obama could walk it,” Trump said connected Friday during a property conference.

But he wasn't done. On Monday, Trump continued to tout his clarity of mind.

“No president has ever taken a cognitive trial isolated from me," Trump said. "I’ve taken 3 of them.”

While Trump intelligibly sees nan number of tests he's taken to beryllium a constituent of pride, Stewart sees it differently.

"Why do you deliberation that is?" nan comedian asked during his speech connected Monday.

He challenged nan president to see that doctors demanding he return a watercourse of cognitive tests mightiness propose thing different than top-tier intelligence acuity.

“Why do you deliberation that you’re nan only president that that happens to?” Stewart asked. “That for immoderate reason, each clip you spell to nan doctor, which is simply a lot, nan expert is ever like, ‘Hey, while you’re here... Could you travel complete present quickly and explicate which 1 is nan bear?’”

After calling Trump a "regular Stephen Hawking," he besides accused nan president of lying astir nan results of 1 of his cognitive tests.

During a Friday property conference, Trump gave an illustration of a mobility he was asked — and, he claims, answered correctly — during a test.

“You know, they say, ‘Take a number, immoderate number,’ OK, I’ll return 99, ‘Multiply times nine,’ OK, ‘Divide it by three,’ good, ’Add 4,293.’ That’s good. ‘Divide by two. Subtract 93. Divide by nine,’” Trump said.

Stewart was skeptical that Trump could really reply a mathematics mobility pinch that level of complexity. He backed up his skepticism pinch a clip from a 2006 Howard Stern power show section in which Stern stumps Trump and 2 of his children — Ivanka and Don Jr — pinch a mathematics question.

“What is 17 times 6?” Stern asks.

After Don Jr. stumbles done an effort and Ivanka tries to tally defense for his incorrect answer, Trump himself chimes successful and confidently answers nan question.

"It's eleven-twelve," he says, earlier correcting himself to "one-twelve."

Even aft nan correction, he was wrong.

"It's 102," Stewart said aft nan clip. “But someway we’re expected to judge that 20 years later you’ve turned into a genius?”

Trump has been nan taxable of galore health-related issues. Earlier this year, bruising astir Trump's hands drew speculation that he was suffering from immoderate malady. The White House claims Trump’s bruising is caused by nan vigorous handshaking he does passim nan day, mixed pinch his precocious intake of aspirin. Presidential wellness trackers pointed retired that Trump was photographed pinch swollen ankles pursuing his travel to Florida, which was apt nan consequence of his chronic venous insufficiency.

According to nan Cleveland Clinic, "CVI damages those valves, causing humor to excavation successful your legs."

"This increases unit successful your limb veins and causes symptoms for illustration swelling and ulcers," according to nan hospital.

The nationalist has noticed Trump’s various aesculapian issues, according to a caller poll.

The findings from The Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos recovered that 59 percent of respondents don't judge that Trump has nan intelligence acuity to service arsenic nan president. Another 55 percent said they do not deliberation he is physically patient capable to transportation retired his statesmanlike duties.

Last fall, nan canvass asked nan aforesaid question, and astatine that clip only 45 percent of Americans believed Trump lacked nan beingness wellness to service arsenic president.