Donald Trump, 74, makes dementia a campaign issue in duel with Joe Biden, 77

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>President Donald Trump’s phrase &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Person&period; Woman&period; Man&period; Camera&period; TV&period;” is getting an unlikely moment in the spotlight as the politics of dementia enters the campaign three months before the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&comma; 74&comma; attempted to demonstrate his mental fitness by reciting five words&comma; in order&comma; importantly&comma; over and over in a television interview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Republican president said that collection of nouns&comma; or ones like them&comma; was part of a cognitive test he had aced while declaring that his likely Democratic opponent&comma; 77-year-old Joe Biden&comma; could not do the same&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a battle of septuagenarians&comma; the Trump campaign has long tried to paint Mr Biden as having lost some of his mental sharpness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the gambit has yet to prove successful in denting the former vice president’s standing in the race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That leaves Mr Trump trying to escalate the attacks while defending his own ability to handle the mental rigours of the job&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Person&period; Woman&period; Man&period; Camera&period; TV<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The first questions are very easy&comma;” Mr Trump told Fox News&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The last questions are much more difficult&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Like a memory question&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s&comma; like&comma; you’ll go&colon; Person&period; Woman&period; Man&period; Camera&period; TV&period; So they say&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Could you repeat that&quest;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So I said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Yeah&period; It’s&colon; Person&period; Woman&period; Man&period; Camera&period; TV&period;’”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He then recalled that&comma; at the end of the test&comma; the doctor asked him to recite it again&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And you go&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;Person&period; Woman&period; Man&period; Camera&period; TV’&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If you get it in order&comma; you get extra points&comma;” Mr Trump said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They said nobody gets it in order&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s actually not that easy&comma; but for me&comma; it was easy&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;159346" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-159346" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-159346" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;F0CDB8CD-AA40-4AD0-8238-4E44FB92163F&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-159346" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Democratic presidential candidate&comma; former vice president Joe Biden<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump boasted that he dazzled the doctors because he has &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a good memory&comma; because I’m cognitively there” and delivered an unsubtle accusation about Mr Biden&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Now Joe should take that test because something’s going on&comma;” Mr Trump said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And&comma; I say this with respect&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I mean — going to probably happen to all of us&comma; right&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You know&quest; It’s going to happen&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr Trump has been known to declare that he is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a very stable genius” and that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have the best words” while noting that he attended the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;159347" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-159347" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-159347" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;07&sol;A902D51A-CBA9-4C41-8BB8-97D9FB8FAA6D&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"374" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-159347" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Joe Biden is seeking to wrest the keys to the White House from Donald Trump<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>And about a month ago&comma; 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