Donald Trump, 78, challenges Joe Biden, 81, to a cognitive test but then fluffs the name of his doctor and forgets to take questions before walking off stage at end of speech

It was intended as an opportunity to highlight the differences between a powerful 78-year-old Republican candidate and the vulnerable 81-year-old incumbent president.

But Donald Trump apparently he suffered two embarrassing memory errors on Saturday night even as he took on the challenge Joe Biden to a cognitive test.

In doing so, he reminded voters that the choice in November will be between the two oldest presidential candidates in history.

Not only did he misremember his doctor’s name during his speech to supporters, but he also seemed to forget a promise to answer questions at the end of the performance and simply walked off stage when he was done.

“I’ll answer some questions at the end of the speech,” he said at the start of his speech to 8,000 adoring fans at a convention center in Detroit, Michigan.

“So this is different from Joe Biden. He doesn’t answer questions.’

Former President Donald Trump spent Saturday in the key swing state of Michigan, where he addressed Turning Point Action’s People’s Convention in the evening

He spoke for about an hour and twenty minutes (much more than Biden’s usual fifteen minutes) in his usual freewheeling style. But in the end he seemed to have forgotten his promise.

With the crowd cheering and the noticeable absence of his usual walk-off music, Trump stood on stage to thank his supporters.

Only then did “Hold On, I’m Comin,” Sam and Dave’s song begin.

A concerned-looking Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Action which organized the event, rushed back on stage to confer with the former president, who was already backstage.

“One more time… give it up for President Donald Trump,” he said, ending the evening.

It was a strange ending to a typically liberal speech. He laid out his priorities if he were to win the presidential election and repeatedly criticized his Democratic opponent.

But on the day after his 78th birthdayhe showed signs of weakness.

‘He doesn’t even know the word inflation means,” he said of Biden. “I don’t think if you gave him a quiz.” ..I think he should take a cognitive test just like me.

‘I took a cognitive test. And I asked him: Doc Ronnie, Doc Ronnie Johnson. Everyone knows Congressman Ronnie Johnson Texashe was the White House doctor?

The conference center was filled with 8,000 visitors on Saturday evening

Trump received an enthusiastic welcome from supporters as fireworks lit up the room

But he wasn’t. Trump’s White House physician and Texas congressman is named Ronnie Jackson.

Trump is ahead of Biden in the polls and has shown much of his high-powered approach to campaigning compared to the Democrat‘s vulnerability.

But he also regularly makes verbal mistakes, and a recent report found that his rambling speech worried some CEOs at a meeting.

He spent Saturday in Detroit, Michiganpitting him against his rival in what should be a reliably Democratic city.

In the evening he addressed 8,000 supporters at Turning Point Action’s People’s Convention.

He blasted the Bidens for traveling back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean aboard Air Force One, making multiple trips to Europe and, in the first lady’s case, returning to the U.S. for just 24 hours to support Hunter during his process.

And he vowed to start unraveling Biden’s policies on his first day in office.

“This time next year, America’s borders will be closed, sealed and secure…,” he said. ‘Inflation will completely retreat.

“Our economy will come roaring back. Optimism will increase. American pride will soar.

“The American Dream will flourish again for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed.”

The speech also contained the usual grievances and wild claims: that the army is building electric tanks, that President Volodomyr Zelensky is the biggest seller in history, that dishwashers have run out of water, and that the Elections 2020 had been stolen.

Trump’s itinerary highlighted the tightrope he is trying to walk in 2024 electionfirst visited an African-American church before speaking at a meeting of Turning Point Action, a group that the Anti Defamation League says attracts racists and extremists.

Biden won Michigan in 2020 by three points. But now the former president has gone a step further with a half-point lead in the moving poll averages.

“We think we’re going to win this state. We are way ahead right now,” Trump said earlier during a roundtable discussion at 180 Church in the city’s northwest.

‘So it’s an honor to be here. It is a very important area for us.’

The chart shows how the political landscape will change in 2024 as Trump tries to capture the black vote that did so much to give Biden victory. White House.

“He has been the worst president for black people,” Trump said.