Former President Trump challenged President Biden and the Murdoch family to mental and physical competency tests, after a Wall Street Journal poll revealed 49 percent of respondents thought Trump was not mentally up for the job.
“I hereby challenge Rupert Murdoch & Sons, Biden, WSJ heads, to acuity tests!” Trump wrote Sunday in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform.
“I will name the place and the test, and it will be a tough one. Nobody will come even close to me! We can also throw some physical activity into it,” Trump said in a separate post, adding, “I just won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf club, with many very good players. To do so you need strength, accuracy, touch and, above all, mental toughness.”
In a series of posts Sunday, Trump lashed out at the Murdoch family for even asking survey respondents about whether they were confident Trump was mentally up for the job.
In the poll, conducted Aug. 24-30, people were asked how well various statements described President Biden and and former President Trump.
In response to a statement that Trump “is mentally up for the job of president,” 49 percent said “not well” in terms of how well it described Trump.
An even higher number, 60 percent, responded “not well” when the same statement was posed to them about Biden.
“In a phony and probably rigged Wall Street Journal poll, coming out of nowhere to softened the mental incompetence blow that is so obvious with Crooked Joe Biden, they ask about my age and mentality. Where did that come from?” Trump asked in his initial post.
Trump, who is 77, frequently mocks Biden, who is 80, for what he and his supporters often characterize as lack of mental competency. At campaign rallies, Trump often plays a montage of clips, lasting 3-5 seconds, that show Biden stuttering or appearing confused at inopportune moments.
Trump’s relationship with the Murdoch-controlled conservative media has also grown increasingly fraught.
Trump refused to attend the first GOP primary debate, in part, because he did not want to help boost Fox News’s ratings, and he has indicated he does not plan on attending the second debate, which will be hosted by Fox Business.