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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 12:41 PM Oct 2017

Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson

Source: The Hill



BY JUDY KURTZ - 10/10/17 12:21 PM EDT

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ITK reached out to the geniuses at Mensa — which describes itself as “an international society whose only qualification for membership is a score in the top two percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test” — and asked if they’d be willing to take Trump’s suggestion.

“American Mensa would be happy to hold a testing session for President Trump and Secretary Tillerson,” said Charles Brown, the group’s communications director.

When asked if any American president or Cabinet member has ever taken a Mensa admission test before, Brown pointed out that while the group can confirm membership, it doesn’t release who’s actually taken the brain-busting exam. “But it’s important to note that our admissions test is not the sole way to qualify for Mensa — there are hundreds of other prior-evidence tests that can qualify a member,” Brown said. “And the early success of many presidents no doubt exposed them to those types of qualifying avenues.”

Naming former President Bill Clinton’s experience as a Rhodes Scholar, Jimmy Carter’s work as a nuclear engineer, and George H.W. Bush’s time as a military pilot, Brown told us, “Each could have encountered standardized academic tests (LSAT, GMAT, Miller Analogies), where qualifying scores would have propelled them into Mensa.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/354718-mensa-offers-to-host-iq-test-for-trump-and-tillerson



Trump: 'I didn't undercut' Tillerson with IQ comment

President Trump said Tuesday he did not undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by offering to compare IQ tests with the top diplomat.

“No I didn't undercut anybody,” Trump said when asked if his comments undermined Tillerson. “I don't believe in undercutting people." Trump spoke after he suggested he is smarter than Tillerson, saying in an interview published earlier Tuesday that he could beat him in an IQ test.

The president told Forbes magazine that if Tillerson did actually call him a “moron,” then, “I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests, and I can tell you who is going to win.”

Trump reiterated that he still has confidence in the secretary of State, a statement he made last week. “Yes,” he said when asked by reporters.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/354719-after-iq-comment-trump-says-he-has-confidence-in-tillerson
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Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
Love it! Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 #1
Chicken shit would never do it this way. lark Oct 2017 #2
Interesting idea, but it would be more interesting if they hosted Trump and Obama. StevieM Oct 2017 #3
This could be entertaining - watching the Control-Z Oct 2017 #4
Meanwhile, DOTARD offers to host "F*cking Moron" test Achilleaze Oct 2017 #5
LOL SharonClark Oct 2017 #17
Trump would need thbobby Oct 2017 #6
45 would insist on a "what's my IQ" internet test truthisfreedom Oct 2017 #7
Sorry, I can't leave this alone thbobby Oct 2017 #8
I wish there were a "like" button renate Oct 2017 #11
This would be fun to watch Gothmog Oct 2017 #9
distracted Larrybanal Oct 2017 #10
Donald wants to use an old IQ score, not a current test. tclambert Oct 2017 #12
I question the veracity of this article. murielm99 Oct 2017 #13
I hope Timmygoat Oct 2017 #14
They asked Trump about Mensa, jb5150 Oct 2017 #15
Does anyone know the IQ level one must be to qualify for Mensa? YOHABLO Oct 2017 #16
You need to score in the top murielm99 Oct 2017 #18
I believe it is 132 and up EX500rider Oct 2017 #22
because neither of them has anything better to do 0rganism Oct 2017 #19
Trump like most Republicans is a proud member of DENSA Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2017 #20
Trump Is As Likely To Take An IQ Test ... DoctorJoJo Oct 2017 #21

lark

(23,102 posts)
2. Chicken shit would never do it this way.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 12:46 PM
Oct 2017

He'd never let the results come out because minus scores could turn off some of his base



StevieM

(10,500 posts)
3. Interesting idea, but it would be more interesting if they hosted Trump and Obama.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 12:52 PM
Oct 2017

I would love to see Trump humiliated by getting blown out by the man who he repeatedly defamed and belittled.

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
4. This could be entertaining - watching the
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:05 PM
Oct 2017

maggot wiggle out of it. We know he won't do it - unless he thinks he can blackmail Mensa or order them to give him the bestest, highest score in the history of the world.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. Meanwhile, DOTARD offers to host "F*cking Moron" test
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:21 PM
Oct 2017

Good old DOTARD. You can always count on them to bring things down to a level appropriate to the latter-day republican party.

truthisfreedom

(23,148 posts)
7. 45 would insist on a "what's my IQ" internet test
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:33 PM
Oct 2017

The kind that says "You are Einstein level!" to everyone.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
8. Sorry, I can't leave this alone
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:33 PM
Oct 2017

Donald, if you grabbed two pussies a week and needed 4 tic tacs for each one you grabbed, how many tic tacs would you need in 27 days?

Donald, if you cheated 200 contractors each week out of 45% of their promised pay, how much would you have had to promise each of them to steal 5 billion dollars in 12 years?

So much fun! I could go on forever!

 

Larrybanal

(227 posts)
10. distracted
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 01:43 PM
Oct 2017

no one thinks trump could keep focused for an IQ test...he would be tweeting on his phone in 10 minutes

tclambert

(11,086 posts)
12. Donald wants to use an old IQ score, not a current test.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 02:05 PM
Oct 2017

I never knew a rich daddy could bribe an IQ tester, but I guess it must have happened.

murielm99

(30,741 posts)
13. I question the veracity of this article.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 02:13 PM
Oct 2017

Mensa does not involve itself in politics. It is a social organization.

The person who gave this interview is out of line.

I am beyond finding any of this funny any more. Hell in California. High water in Puerto Rico. I am totally disgusted.

jb5150

(1,178 posts)
15. They asked Trump about Mensa,
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 02:25 PM
Oct 2017

He said, "doesn't that have something to do with blood from a woman's whatever?"

 

DoctorJoJo

(1,134 posts)
21. Trump Is As Likely To Take An IQ Test ...
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 09:54 PM
Oct 2017

... as he is to release his tax returns. In other words, ZERO probability!

JoJo

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