Donald Trump says he is mentally stabler than Nikki Haley

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Rochester Opera House on January 21, 2024, in Rochester, New Hampshire. — AFP

As the Republican primary in New Hampshire is scheduled for Tuesday, former US President Donald Trump believed that his opponent former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is not as mentally stable as him calling for a cognitive test in which he said she's not gonna win. 

Speaking with Fox News Monday, Donald Trump said that he would score higher than the 52-year-old Nikki Haley, who criticised his cognitive abilities claiming that the former president is not fit for another term.

Haley had been calling for the evaluation of the mental abilities of political leaders aged over 75 during her electoral rallies.

The 77-year-old Trump said: "Well, I think I’m a lot sharper than her. I would do this: I would sit down right now and take an aptitude test and it would be my result against her result and she’s not going to win, not gonna even come close to winning."

Republican presidential candidate, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, holds Arthur Cowette, 16 months, during a meet and greet event at T-BONES on January 22, 2024, in Concord, New Hampshire. — AFP

Repeating his claim for the ability test, the four-time-indicted former president said he had aced two of such tests; one during his time in office and another, he took more recently.

The first-ever criminally charged former president said: "I aced it twice. I aced it. But I would say that, you know, I’ve actually called for a cognitive test for anybody running for president because I actually think that’s a good idea. It’d be nice to have an intelligent person be president."

Trump has been repeatedly talking about his mental abilities and the test results he took in 2018 with erstwhile White House physician Ronnie Jackson, who said that the former commander-in-chief responded to every question correctly on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

This test is carried out to ascertain mild cognitive impairment or the early phase of Alzheimer’s disease.

Recently, during the campaigns, Nikki Haley and President Joe Biden have been castigating Trump over his recent remarks, including the one in which he seemed to confuse Haley with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week.