Trump didn’t score 73 on IQ test in 1st year at New York Military Academy
Claim:
US President Donald Trump received 73 points in the IQ test in the first year of the New York Military Academy.
Rating:
Rating: Wrong
For years, US President Donald Trump’s claim that he received 73 points in the IQ test in his first year in the New York Military Academy.
First snopes fair The rumors in May 2019 have only been re -emerged since then, and our readers have frequently contacted us to ask if it were true.
For example, at the end of August 2025, more than one Facebook users published ONE image (archived– archived) A newspaper that tells the story of a man who claims to have found the test results while cleaning an apartment belonging to his deceased father who is allegedly working in the academy. The text was read in the picture:
Trump IQ test results discovered in the closet of the old Nyma employee
Result: 73
President Donald Trump’s first year in the New York Military Academy, the results of an IQ test, was discovered in a file box in a cabinet in Brooklyn. According to the test results, Trump’s IQ is 73.
The document, which is currently in the process of authentication, on Thursday, William Aspew, Jr. was discovered by cleaning his father’s apartment.
“My father was a school consultant in Nyma from 1955 to 1985. He did not manage these tests, but he was responsible for gathering them and sending them to the rating office.” He said.
ASEW has produced additional documents and photographs that confirm that her father was really employed as a school consultant in NYMA. Trump went to Military Preparatory School.
Orum I don’t think this should be news to anyone, ASEW said ASEW. “The man is clearly an idiot.”
Trump’s IQ had been a matter of discussion before the second term in office began and now the president has declared himself on x (archived) In April 2013: “I know that some of you can think that they are hard and hard, but I am actually a very compassionate person (with a very high IQ) with a strong common sense.”
However, the claim made in the image – It looked like the source of the rumor – Since it was our control, the circulation was wrong online. to create In 2019.
In our updated research, we could not find a reliable report that Trump has 73 IQ points. newspapers or Other Archives. We also found no Reliable reports Since our 2019 Fact control has been published, the IQ test results for the president. Trump’s Trump, a website containing Trump’s social media platform, archived publications from the social media platform, No sample He is discussing the president’s IQ.
‘Newspaper article’ used wrong -positioned photos
The rumor was first caused by an image of a Snopes newspaper article. Online saw (archivedAt the beginning of May 2019, it was not possible to determine who created the image.
There was also no reliable report Newspaperler.com or Google with Google title It was seen in the image.
Black and white photographs in the image were supplied online from authentic paintings, but the two were wrong above the words “Late father in today and in Nyma at work.”
The left photo is a younger distorted. Adobe Ready PhotoWhile showing the right photo allegedly his father Lawrence HansonIn 1950, the director of the Grand Forks Central High School of North Dakota.
NYMA ’66 graduate did not remember IQ tests or ‘William ASEW’
In addition to the wrong installment photographs, an old Nyma student overlapping with Trump, Snopes told Snopes that he did not remember that IQ tests were performed during his time at school.
“The only test criterion I remembered for was a kind of seated to accept a preparatory school I received before applying. This took place in another place, and it was part of my application process. He said.
Serafin joined NYMA from 1962 to 1967, left an extra year to improve test scores, and then remained in contact with the school.
Serafin, called the school advisor in the article, “About three years after my mother went to the nursing staff, so I stayed close to the academy and staff, I do not remember a ‘William ASEW’ at that time. In my annuals, not listed.” He said.
We contacted the academy to ask the school students if Trump had the validity of the alleged test result and the school students had IQ tests. We didn’t get a response before the broadcast.
Snopes in December 2016 to create An infographic that claims that Trump is 156 IQ is wrong.
Snopes archives contributed to this report.
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@angiespizelles. “If he votes for this clown, which can only choose TV personalities for cabinet positions, he is not very ignorant and does not read! X.com, X, 5 December 2024 https://x.com/angiespizelles/status/1864651196100657469.
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@Kellda. “So Trump’s IQ is 73. This place. I have applied countless IQ tests and there is no critical thinking skills in addition to a vocabulary and word finding problems at approximately 4th grade level. Bingo was on my card and now I have a blackout.” X.com, x, 5 December 2024, https://x.com/ellda/status/1864490940133503027.
“The portrait of an old man is Stock photo.” Adobe Stock, https://stock.adobe.com/uk/images/Artriat-of-an-elderly-man/88682240. Accessed 6 December 2024.
@Psychdr100. “This evidence is still confirmed. At the NY Military Academy, Trump has made an IQ test with 73 points. An average person has 100 points. Trump is at the border between low IQ and very low IQ.” X.com, x, 6 May 2019, https://x.com/psychdr100/status/1125433204322684928.
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