A recent Quora answer to a question caught my attention. The question was: 'What is Donald Trump's actual IQ?' with the person clearly skeptical of Dotard's 195 super genius claims. The answer from the Quora expert was comprehensive and encompassed speech, vocabulary as well as assorted interview responses. The expert's conclusion was 85, which is 'below average' but still functional in an 'explicit, hands on' way as the IQ and job potential distribution graph (from the same expert) shows;
Distribution of IQs and job potentials - Trump's (younger ) estimated IQ was not even Mensa level .
An earlier answer from a claimed Mensa member in Scotland was:
My Mensa co-members and I
estimate that it's likely in the 160-180 range.
Which elicited a rather different Quora response:
"If you believe that I rather doubt you’re in Mensa. At his
peak he may have had an IQ in the 115–120 range. Today he’s deteriorated a lot
so his effective IQ may be more like 90-100. He can’t even talk about the action
of windmills with basic intelligence.
And I know he brags about attending Wharton (genius stuff you know) but what he fails to mention is that he attended the undergraduate program, not the prestigious graduate school. And in his day Wharton was not the selective school it is today. According to a former admissions officer they accepted some 40% of applicants as opposed to the 7% they accept today."
So which is it? The latter answer is especially important as Trump has constantly referenced his Wharton "achievements" as indicators of a "genius level" intellect. Which in turn has been used to spread the bunkum of a superlative public identity. Indeed, it has been used by his many MAGA cheerleaders to insist this proves he must be "error free" in whatever policies he advances.
Then again, a Jimmy Kimmel revelation of his Wharton admission test scores tempers this severely, i.e.
Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Trump’s 1970 Wharton IQ Test — “Genius”? Think Again
The above Youtube video sheds further light, especially on how Trump has questioned others intelligence over decades, including that Obama's Harvard degree was "unearned", while simultaneously threatening legal action against anyone who'd dare to release Trump's own transcripts - whether earlier IQ scores or SATs - which can yield a comparison reference IQ.
The former are the IQ tests we all took in high school in the 1960s (mine in my sophomore year at Pace) and which Trump certainly took while at the New York Military Academy. Whether they admit it or not.
In the case of the Youtube video link above, Kimmel had claimed to have in his possession the results of Trump's Wharton admission exam results - that independent experts deemed genuine. (Which could be a proxy for IQ just as the SAT and GRE in earlier renditions served a proxies for IQ, and Mensa entrance, e.g.
Why So Many Past Aptitude Tests Are No Longer Accepted by Mensa
The results of the Wharton tests - which Kimmel read- were:
Verbal section: 92nd percentile (respectable)
Quantitative section: 87th percentile (respectable)
Composite score: 88th percentile.
Using the table of conversion of GRE scores to IQ at the time (from my Mensa Past Aptitude post), one finds:
Translated - the Wharton test results yield a comparative GRE (verbal + quantitative) score of 1090 (left column). Which clocks in at just above the 88th percentile (right column). The corresponding IQs to 15 and 16 standard deviations are 118.23 and 119.45, respectively. These results fall within the range of the 2nd Quora respondent's 115-120 range, and make the most sense.
Is Trump then a "genius"? Nope, and he would not even make it into Mensa (98th percentile or at least 132 IQ).
For reference here, based on his extraordinary achievements in physics and posthumous brain analysis, Einstein's IQ is estimated to be around 160. This is the dude who figured out relativity, and Trump- who can't even figure out how windmills work - is no Einstein.
Of course, if Trump wishes he can always just take the Mensa admissions test and prove he's at least a gifted intellect, if not an official genius (145 IQ). My bet is he will not go for it, especially given the level of his current cognitive decline.
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by Thom Hartmann | February 19, 2026 - 6:12am | permalink
Donald Trump‘s Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “on life support” as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father’s and husband’s ordeal?
On Monday I told you about the historic pattern associated with countries moving from democracy to tyranny. First, they start breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution in small ways, and the more they get away with it — and buy off or threaten politicians who may otherwise stop it — the more they do it. We’ve been watching Trump do this almost from the first day of his second term in office.
Yesterday I laid out the mechanism behind that, the way men like Trump who want to become dictators co-opt the law by threatening law firms and the media, ignoring judges, and legally, verbally, or physically attacking the press, politicians, and regular citizens who speak out. Trump has done all of these things already, too, just like Putin and Orbán did when they were deconstructing the democracies in Russia and Hungary.
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President Donald Trump’s cult of personality is reaching a whole new level in his second term.
New York Times reporter Peter Baker notes that Trump has always been obsessed with his own image and with slapping his name on buildings; now that impulse is escalating. It’s not just that Trump put his name above the sign for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His supporters are also building a gold‑plated bronze statue version of him. The 15-foot-tall Trump will tower over his Miami golf course. It will be called “Don Colossus,” and while the name sounds like a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, the project is very real.
The branding push goes beyond his base. Baker reports that the administration is considering a new class of battleships that would also bear Trump’s name. Staff is already suggesting that Trump will name his ballroom, which will replace the East Wing, after himself. One conservative even joked that Trump should simply rename the moon after himself.
And:
Colbert Brings Up Trump’s 1970 IQ Test — The Genius Narrative Changes
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