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President Trump has described CNN’s Don Lemon as the “dumbest man on television” and Chris Cuomo has received the nickname “Fredo” (a reference to the dumb brother in The Godfather) from the public. Well, both men proved they dissevered their titles during the Wednesday handoff between PrimeTime and CNN Tonight, when neither man could accurately identify an animal on the mental acuity test they were mocking the President for doing well on.
“Person, woman, man, camera, TV. Can you remember that,” Lemon sprung on Cuomo, to his great confusion. Lemon noted that Trump had bragged about acing the test to the press today, but shared his suspicion the President was lying. “But there's some question about when this test was given and who gave it to him,” he said.
After Cuomo quipped that the test “looks like something for middle school,” Lemon stumbled through suggesting Trump took the test because others were worried about a mental decline. “Well, you take that when – Usually – Listen, I'm not a doctor and I’m going to let Dr. Reiner explain it in a little bit. But usually when there's some issue or some concern about, you know, your cognitive ability,” he hinted.
“You’re like burying the lede here,” Cuomo tagged on.
A few moments after Cuomo admitted to having a lot of mental “fog” lately, in which he forgets words (he has previously attributed this to his battle with coronavirus), he asked a simple question about something on the testing sheet: “What were the animal shapes?”
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