What evidence exists about Donald Trump's IQ or cognitive test results?

1. What official test results exist — and what they actually measure

White House physicians have reported that Trump took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in 2018 and again during a 2025 physical, and those doctors said he scored perfectly (30 out of 30) on the MoCA ^{[3] [6]}. The MoCA is a brief, 10‑minute screening tool designed to detect mild cognitive impairment and dementia risk by sampling memory, attention, language and visuospatial skills — it is not designed to measure intelligence or provide an IQ score ^{[7] [3] [5]}.

2. Why MoCA results are not IQ scores

Ziad Nasreddine, the MoCA’s creator, has explicitly said there are no studies showing the MoCA correlates with IQ tests and that it was not designed to determine IQ ^{[4] [5]}. Reporting emphasizes the point that many MoCA items are elementary (identify animals, draw a clock, copy a cube), so passing it demonstrates normal cognitive screening performance rather than high intelligence ^{[7] [5]}.

3. Claims and debunked numbers: the “IQ 73” example

A widely shared claim that Trump’s childhood IQ was 73 has been investigated and debunked: Full Fact concluded there is no evidence that any such IQ result was discovered or that Trump’s IQ is 73 ^[1]. Updated searches by other outlets likewise found no credible archival reports of an IQ score of 73 for Trump ^[2]. In short, those specific numeric claims lack verifiable sourcing ^{[1] [2]}.

4. What Trump has said and how media covered it

Trump has repeatedly touted his MoCA results, sometimes describing the screening as an “IQ test” and challenging others to take it ^{[8] [9]}. News outlets and commentators criticized that characterization and noted the mismatch between the clinical purpose of the MoCA and the public boast ^{[8] [10]}. Some outlets reported the president calling parts of the test “very hard,” while experts and journalists noted the test’s relative simplicity for a functioning adult ^{[11] [10]}.

5. Limits of available evidence and what remains unknown

Available reporting documents MoCA screenings and the absence of a released formal IQ test score, but it does not and cannot determine Trump’s overall intelligence from those screenings ^{[3] [4]}. There are no sourced, peer‑reviewed or publicly released IQ test results for Trump in the reporting provided; therefore any numeric IQ claims are either unverified or contradicted by fact checks ^{[1] [2]}. If you ask whether there are formal IQ test records in medical or educational archives publicly tied to Trump, the current sources say none have been found ^{[2] [1]}.

6. Competing perspectives and implicit agendas in the coverage

Medical experts and the MoCA’s creator frame the test as a clinical screen and warn against treating it as an IQ metric ^{[4] [5]}. Political commentators, TV hosts and critics use Trump’s statements about tests to question his fitness or to mock him, which introduces partisan interpretation into coverage ^{[10] [12]}. Fact‑checking organizations emphasize source verification and debunk numeric claims, reflecting an agenda of correcting misinformation rather than adjudicating intelligence itself ^{[1] [2]}.

7. Bottom line for readers

There is verifiable reporting that Trump was given MoCA screenings and that doctors reported perfect scores ^{[3] [6]}, but authoritative voices insist the MoCA does not measure IQ and is not correlated with formal intelligence tests ^{[4] [5]}. Claims that specific historical IQ scores exist (for example, “73”) are unsupported by credible evidence in current reporting and have been debunked by fact checkers ^{[1] [2]}. Available sources do not mention any released, validated formal IQ test results for Donald Trump beyond the MoCA screenings ^{[4] [3]}.