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 theyd be willing to take Trumps suggestion.
American Mensa would be happy to hold a testing session for President Trump and Secretary Tillerson, said Charles Brown, the groups 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 doesnt release whos actually taken the brain-busting exam. But its 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 Clintons experience as a Rhodes Scholar, Jimmy Carters work as a nuclear engineer, and George H.W. Bushs 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.
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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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Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)lark
(23,102 posts)He'd never let the results come out because minus scores could turn off some of his base
StevieM
(10,500 posts)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)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)Good old DOTARD. You can always count on them to bring things down to a level appropriate to the latter-day republican party.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)Someone to read the test to him. Might produce a bias.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)The kind that says "You are Einstein level!" to everyone.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)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!
renate
(13,776 posts)Gothmog
(145,264 posts)Larrybanal
(227 posts)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)I never knew a rich daddy could bribe an IQ tester, but I guess it must have happened.
murielm99
(30,741 posts)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.
Timmygoat
(779 posts)I hope someone can hold Trump to this, he needs to put his money where his mouth is.
jb5150
(1,178 posts)He said, "doesn't that have something to do with blood from a woman's whatever?"
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)murielm99
(30,741 posts)two percent.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)0rganism
(23,955 posts)i guess they got tired of golf
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)... as he is to release his tax returns. In other words, ZERO probability!
JoJo