Agreed. From his statement, it sounds like he was giving a general example, not attempting to recall the specific animals he was shown. I say this as someone who thinks trump sounds like he is mentally unwell. Heck, this is downright coherent compared to a lot of the gibberish that comes out of his mouth.

“I think it was 35, 30 questions,” the former president said in Portsmouth, N.H., of the test, which he said involved a few animal identification queries. “They always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this, or that — a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?’ Okay. And that goes on for three or four [questions] and then it gets harder and harder and harder.”

It is, and this kind of thing is a big part of why Trump’s cultists love him so much. Every time they see us all making fun of something like this, they feel like they’re being attacked, like “liberal elitists” are looking down on their guy, and by extension on them, for no good reason. Instead of talking about how he’s a dangerous authoritarian nationalist, a pompous rich man who despises his own voters, and a threat to the future of democracy, we look like a bunch of bullies forming a circle to point and laugh at the kid who doesn’t test well.