“Do you think he knew it was a cognitive test and not an IQ test?” Sara Haines asked, while Sunny Hostin called out Trump’s “lack of cognition.”

*The View *cohosts mock ‘tragedy’ of Donald Trump’s cognitive test: ‘Toddlers have passed this’

"Do you think he knew it was a cognitive test and not an IQ test?" Sara Haines asked, while Sunny Hostin called out Trump's "lack of cognition."

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- *The View* cohosts criticized Donald Trump's handling of a cognitive test.

- Sunny Hostin observed that "they say that toddlers have passed" the same test.

- "Do you think he knew it was a cognitive test and not an IQ test?" Sara Haines asked.

*The View* cohosts have issued an intellectual assessment of 79-year-old Donald Trump in the wake of the president criticizing U.S. representatives Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, calling them "low-IQ" people.

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, 69, opened a Hot Topics discussion on Wednesday about Trump's recent reaction to his own dementia screening test, which he confused for a "very hard" IQ test before slamming Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez.

The talk show then flashed an image of a cognitive test on the screen behind the cohosts, with former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin, 36, noting that "this is an example of a cognitive assessment," before mockingly identifying the "snake, elephant, alligator," on the test herself.

"By the way, they say that toddlers have passed this with a perfect score, so I don't think it's something he should brag about," 57-year-old Sunny Hostin quipped.

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Sara Haines, 48, jumped in to claim that "the scientist who designed it said this is in no way an indication of IQ, because it's a cognitive ability test. So it kind of tells you his cognitive abilities — that he screwed that up."

Joy Behar took a more serious approach with her criticism of Trump over the matter.**** "The tragedy of this and the scary part is that this person who can tell you the difference between a camel and an elephant has the nuclear codes," the 83-year-old cohost said, adding that she "woke up this morning at 4 because I'm worried about the fact that he can't pass, really, a cognitive test."

Griffin, who previously worked for Trump's communications team before resigning from his first-term administration and subsequently speaking out against him, pushed back on Behar's assessment, which also included criticism of those who attempted to target President Joe Biden's mental acuity during his term in office.

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"As one of the one in three Americans who didn't want Donald Trump or Joe Biden because I had concerns about their ability to do the job for another four years, I don't think we should be using that as an example," Griffin said. "Donald Trump is someone I don't agree with a lot. I think he gets a lot of things wrong, I think he has poor moral character. I'm not convinced he's fading mentally. I think that he's a man who's invested in longevity. I think Democrats should focus on beating him on substance, not on [saying] he's crazy, he's losing it."

Haines ended the segment by asking Griffin, who worked closely with Trump, "Do you think he knew it was a cognitive test and not an IQ test?"

Griffin, smiling, responded, "Uhh, I don't know!"

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Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin on 'The View'.

Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez reacted to Trump after his comments about their intellect, with the latter clapping back on social media.

"Out of curiosity, did those doctors ask you to draw a clock, by any chance?" Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. "Was that part hard for you, too? Asking for 340 million people."

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In an interview with CNN, Crockett said she thought Trump was "consistently obsessing over two women of color" with his criticisms.

"I don't know what Black woman hurt him in his past," she said. "But it has really taken him through it."

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC.

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