President Trump Wins First White House Mathematical Olympiad

Washington, D.C. - The results of the first White House Mathematical Olympiad (WHMO) are in, and the winner by a significant margin is President Donald Trump.

Trump, shown here deep within his Mind Palace discovering the hidden connection between all prime numbers, thus unlocking a vast array of new advances in number theory and cryptography

"This is the most prestigious mathematical competition ever held at the White House," Chief of Staff Susie Wiles explained. "The President blew us all away with his command of numbers, shapes, patterns, quantities, and identifying pictures of animals. That last one isn't math so much but everyone was still very impressed with his encyclopedic knowledge of animal flashcards for toddlers."

The WHMO is a mathematical competition for White House staff and members of the Trump administration, including the Vice President, heads of the fifteen executive departments, and several cabinet-level advisors. According to Geraldine Grogan, Chief of Math at the Dunkin' Institute for the Study of Numbers, the questions ranged from extremely difficult algebra and pre-calculus problems to complex theoretical mathematics typically only taught in advanced post-graduate level courses. "It had projective and complex geometry, functional equations, combinatorics, and well-grounded number theory. There was even one about the recently confirmed biggest number that I discovered in 2024."

The exact questions involved in the WHMO have not been revealed, but there is reason to believe that they truly are as tough as Grogan described. I spoke to an anonymous source who had participated in the contest and provided the following insight.

Towards the end, like, they had a question like, 'pick a number, sir, any number.' Okay. 203. 'Multiply by 9. Divide by 2. Add on 1,324. Subtract 1,292. Sir, multiply it out one more time by 19. What is the answer, sir?' I got it right. And the one doctor said, 'I've been doing this test for twenty years and I've never seen anybody ace it.'

One of the principles baked into the newly established annual event is that anyone with a basic understanding of mathematics should understand the problems, even if actually providing a solution would involve more advanced skills. Wiles, who placed fifth after Trump, Melania, Don Jr., and Eric, says that participants needed more than just the correct answer to do well. "We wanted universality and an incentive to find elegant, deceptively simple problems that required more than a bit of thinking outside the box to get full credit. Not only did the president get 100% of the available points, he finished first and was able to get in a nice nap."