{"id":107475,"date":"2025-10-29T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:17:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-offers-to-host-donald-trumps-live-iq-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107475\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Offers to Host Donald Trump&#8217;s Live IQ Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a> has boasted about acing cognitive tests, including during a recent trip to Walter Reed Medical Center, where he also underwent an MRI for undisclosed reasons. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> has offered the president a chance to put his mental acuity on public display for the entire world to see: the late-night host says he\u2019s willing to host and produce a live TV IQ test between Trump and two Democratic rivals, Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett, whom Trump has previously described as \u201clow IQ\u201d individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it would be the greatest television show of all time,\u201d Kimmel declared during Tuesday\u2019s episode of his ABC program. \u201cI was going to call it Grandpa Don\u2019s Dementia Bowl, but I feel he wouldn\u2019t want it on the trophy. So instead we\u2019ll call it, The James C. Kimmel Cognitive Aptitude and Mental Brilliance Invitational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a joke, I am very serious about making this happen, Mr. President,\u201d Kimmel added. \u201cThink of the ratings: they\u2019ll be bigger than the night I came back after you tried to have me canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, Donald Trump has boasted about acing cognitive tests, including during a recent trip to Walter Reed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-107475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}