{"id":2029000,"date":"2023-09-12T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-challenges-biden-murdoch-to-mental-competency-tests\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:32:40","slug":"trump-challenges-biden-murdoch-to-mental-competency-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-challenges-biden-murdoch-to-mental-competency-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for Biden and Murdoch to undergo mental competency tests."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-challenges-biden-murdoch-to-mental-competency-tests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2029000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Donald Trump Challenges Biden and Murdoch Family to \u2063Mental Competency Tests<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to\u200b President Joe Biden and\u2064 the Murdoch family to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-just-getting-started-janice-dean-blows-up-don-lemon-over-sexist-dig-at-nikki-haley\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re Just Getting Started!\u2019: Janice Dean Blows Up Don Lemon Over Sexist Dig At Nikki Haley\">undergo mental competency tests<\/a>. This comes \u2062after a Wall Street\u200c Journal (WSJ) \u2062poll raised questions about\u200b Trump&#8217;s mental \u2063fitness for office.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI hereby challenge \u200bRupert Murdoch &#038; Sons, Biden, WSJ heads, to acuity \u200dtests!\u201d President Trump wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042877248242940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth \u2063Social\u200b post<\/a> on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In \u2064a\u200c separate post, the former president\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/111042977918767542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added:<\/a> \u201cI will name the place and the test, and it\u200d will be a tough one. Nobody will come even close\u2064 to me!\u2064 We can also throw some physical activity into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-files-motion-for-judge-tanya-chutkan-to-recuse-herself-in-federal-case-5489759\">Trump \u200dFiles Motion for Judge Tanya Chutkan to Recuse Herself in \u200cFederal Case<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/11\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-says-void-from-9-11-victims-will-never-be-filled-praises-supreme-heroism-of-responders-5489627\">Trump \u2063Says Void \u2064From 9\/11 Victims &#8216;Will Never\u200b Be\u2063 Filled,&#8217; Praises &#8216;Supreme Heroism&#8217; of \u2064Responders<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/11\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The former president then dismissed questions about his fitness \u2062for another term in the White House by pointing to his abilities as a\u2063 golfer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2062 just\u2063 won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf \u200dclub,\u200c with many very good players. \u200bTo do so you need strength, accuracy, touch \u200band, above\u200d all, mental toughness,\u201d President Trump\u200d wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/house-democrat-aligned-non-profit-launches-20-million-voter-registration-campaign-5486978?cmt=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/documents\/WSJ_Poll_Aug_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf<\/a>), which questioned 1,500 registered voters\u2064 from Aug. 24 to\u200c 30, found that 73\u2064 percent \u200dof respondents believe \u206380-year-old President Biden\u2063 is too old to \u2062seek a second White House term, compared with 47 percent who\u200d said the same of 77-year-old President Trump.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll also found that \u206260 percent thought President Biden was not mentally up to the task of being the \u200bpresident, while 49 percent\u2064 said the same thing about President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>At\u200b the same time, 57 percent of \u2062respondents disapprove of how President Biden \u200cis\u200b handling his job, according \u200cto the poll.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump questioned the integrity\u2063 of the \u2064poll in his Truth Social posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn a phony and probably \u200crigged Wall Street Journal poll, coming out\u2062 of nowhere to softened the mental incompetence blow that \u2062is so obvious \u200cwith Crooked Joe Biden, they\u200d ask about my age and mentality. Where did that \u200bcome from?\u201d President Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Tests<\/h2>\n<p>In February, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki\u2064 Haley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/nikki-haley-calls-for-a-new-generation-of-leadership-and-competency-tests-for-politicians-over-75-5063922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">floated<\/a> the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-holds-first-campaign-event\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley Holds First Campaign Event\">mandatory mental competency tests<\/a> for politicians over\u200d 75, one day \u200bafter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/nikki-haley-makes-major-announcement-regarding-2024-presidential-bid-5056364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing<\/a> her candidacy for the White House.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley participates \u200bin the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by \u2062FOX News \u200dat the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., on Aug. 23, 2023. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Days\u200b later, President Trump appeared to agree with Ms. Haley\u2019s suggestion, when he announced that all presidential candidates \u200bshould take a mental\u200d competency test\u200d for the\u200b 2024 election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cANYBODY running for \u200cthe Office of President of the United States should agree to take a full &#038; complete Mental Competency Test simultaneously (or before!) with the announcement that he\u2062 or she is running, \u200b&#038; likewise, but to a somewhat lesser extent, agree to a test\u200c which \u200dwould\u200b prove that you\u200c are physically capable of doing the job,\u201d the former\u2062 president \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109902651243954125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> \u200don Truth Social.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBeing an outstanding President requires great mental acuity\u2062 &#038; physical\u2062 stamina. If you don\u2019t have these qualities or traits,\u200b it \u200bis likely you won\u2019t succeed. MAGA!\u201d he added, referring to his campaign slogan of Make America Great\u2063 Again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Ms. Haley\u2019s proposal has\u200d been rejected by \u2064First \u200dLady Jill \u200dBiden. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/05\/politics\/jill-biden-nikki-haley-mental-test\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with CNN in early\u2062 March, Ms. Biden called the proposed tests \u201cridiculous.\u201d\u2064 Asked whether her\u200d husband would take such a test, the first lady\u200c said, &#8220;We \u2062would never even discuss \u200csomething like that.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Ms. \u2064Haley \u200dhas\u2063 repeated her proposal\u200b in recent\u200c months. In August, she wrote\u2062 on\u200d X, \u201cPermanent politicians should finally retire and the best way to do that is through term limits and mental competency tests.\u201d<\/div>\n<h2>Poll<\/h2>\n<p>President \u2063Biden \u200bis widely \u200dseen as too old to \u200ceffectively\u200c serve \u2064as president for another four years, \u2063according \u200dto a recent national <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/bidens-age-is-a-significant-concern-for-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> \u200d from\u2063 The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public\u200d Affairs Research. The poll \u200bquestioned \u200d1,165 adults from Aug. 10 to 14.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-seven percent of respondents \u200dsaid President Biden is too \u200cold to be effective for a\u2062 second term, compared\u200d with \u200b51 percent who said the same\u200d thing about President Trump. Among those who held such\u200c a view \u200babout the \u2063current president, \u206469 percent \u200cwere Democrats and 89 \u200bpercent were Republicans.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>President Joe Biden delivers remarks before\u200d presenting the Medal \u2064of Honor to a retired veteran in the East Room of the White \u200dHouse on March\u2064 3, \u200b2023. (Win\u200b McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Words like \u201cold,\u201d \u201coutdated,\u201d \u201caging,\u201d and \u2063&#8221;elderly\u201d were \u2062the first words that\u2064 26 percent of respondents said came\u2064 to their mind\u200c when describing President Biden, in contrast \u200dto 1 percent who \u200bused these words for President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 15 percent\u200d mentioned words like \u201cslow,\u201d \u201cconfused,\u201d and \u201cbumbling\u201d to describe\u2063 President Biden, while 3 percent did so for President Trump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">About two-thirds of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-challenges-biden-murdoch-to-mental-competency-tests\/\" title=\"Trump calls for Biden and Murdoch to undergo mental competency tests.\">polled\u2062 supported \u200dsetting age limits<\/a> for the \u200dpresidency.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump challenged President Joe Biden, the Murdoch family, and the heads of the Wall Street Journal to mental competency tests. This came after a WSJ poll revealed doubts among registered voters about Trump&#8217;s fitness for office. Trump stated, &#8220;I challenge Rupert Murdoch &amp; Sons, Biden, WSJ heads to acuity tests!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":2029001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}