President trumps iq

1. What the records actually show about "Trump's IQ"

There is no documented, authoritative IQ score for President Trump in the public record; multiple fact‑checks have found no evidence he has an IQ of 73 or any other specific IQ number, and investigations into alleged school records or leaked documents have turned up nothing verifiable ^{[1] [2] [4]}. By contrast, Trump’s medical team and doctors have reported that he took brief cognitive screening tests—the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in 2018 and additional cognitive screens in 2025—and one physician has reported a MoCA score of 30 out of 30 on at least one occasion ^[3].

2. Why a perfect MoCA is not an IQ certificate

The MoCA is a 30‑point screening tool developed to detect mild cognitive impairment and early dementia, not to quantify intellectual ability or produce an IQ score; developers and experts emphasize the MoCA’s purpose is clinical screening rather than measuring intellectual prowess, and MoCA and IQ are only loosely correlated ^[3]. Media reports that conflate “acing” a MoCA with having a high IQ misrepresent what the test was designed to show and can be misleading when used as political ammunition ^[3].

3. The 73 IQ claim: origin, spread, and fact‑checks

Viral claims that Trump’s IQ was 73—often tied to supposed high‑school testing at New York Military Academy—have been investigated and debunked by multiple outlets including Full Fact, Snopes and PolitiFact, which found no verifiable source for the alleged score and identified the supposed newspaper clipping and documents as junk or fabricated material ^{[1] [2] [4]}. These debunks note that if such a consequential score existed it would be easily corroborated in archives or contemporaneous reporting, which it is not ^[2].

4. Politics, perception, and why intelligence claims stick

Claims about presidential IQ function as political weapons: opponents and supporters both deploy assertions about intelligence to score rhetorical points, and polls and perception studies show public views of politicians’ "IQs" often reflect partisan impressions more than evidence (YouGov polling shows wide variance in perceived IQs of public figures) ^[5]. Media attention to a perfect MoCA or to debunked IQ documents tends to magnify the impression of a clear metric where none exists; outlets from The Times of India to tabloid coverage amplify the narrative that a test result settles the question, even though professional assessments caution otherwise ^{[6] [7]}.

5. What reporting cannot establish from available sources

The assembled reporting establishes absence of an official IQ score and clarifies the nature of the MoCA, but it cannot determine President Trump’s true IQ because no validated IQ test result has been published; fact‑checkers and academic commentators can refute specific viral claims but cannot generate an IQ score without primary test data that has not been released ^{[1] [2] [8]}. Likewise, assessments that try to infer presidential competence from IQ alone are limited—scholars emphasize multiple traits, like political skill, vision and emotional intelligence, that influence presidential performance and are not captured by a single number ^[9].

6. Conclusion: a careful, evidence‑based takeaway

The evidence-based takeaway is simple: there is no verified IQ score for President Trump, the viral “73” claim is unsubstantiated and repeatedly debunked, and reports of “acing” cognitive screenings refer to a clinical screening instrument (MoCA) that is not an IQ test; readers should treat headlines that conflate these things as politically charged simplifications rather than factual revelations ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Any definitive claim about a president’s IQ requires a released, validated IQ test—something current reporting shows does not exist ^[8].