TIL that the two people to have been the oldest when serving as POTUS are Joe Biden and Donald Trump
TIL that the two people to have been the oldest when serving as POTUS are Joe Biden and Donald Trump
This is based on their age at the beginning of their term.
Trump was 70 at the beginning of his term and 74 at the end. If he is elected in the upcoming election, he will be 78 when he starts again. If he serves a 4-year term only, then he will be 82 at the end of it.
Joe Biden was 78 when he started. At the end of this term, he will be 82. If he is re-elected and completes a full term, he will be 86 when he finishes.
Thus, if Trump wins the upcoming election and serves only 4 years, he will be the oldest president by 159 days over Joe Biden.
If we rank by the oldest age they reached while in office, Ronald Reagan would be in 2nd place since he served from 691 to 77 years of age.
Interestingly, the 4th oldest president was William Henry Harrison died 31 days into his term in 1841, which is the shortest presidential term in US history. The prevailing hypothesis on the cause of his death was pneumonia followed by possible typhoid fever after giving the longest inaugural speech in US presidential history in freezing cold temperatures.
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I remember in 2016, when Sanders was "too old" at 75.
And 2020 when Biden was too old but Trump will be the same age come next election
I also remember when everyone including the DNC labelled Sanders as some insane communist who would wreck the country like how Trump did lol
I remember when they were saying "no more old white men" as a reason to not nominate Sanders and then they picked biden four years later.
He was too old. We had younger choices then. Now we don't.
Many voters don't understand that the time to choose younger candidates is at the beginning, not at the end (in the general election). Most of these people complaining about no choices are not planning on volunteering for or donating to any candidates at all.
They're not making the pizza or paying for it, but they definitely want to choose the toppings.
Pre 2020 the oldest person to start their first term was 69.
trump beat it by being 70, then Biden blew that record out of the water, being 78.
It's not a good trend...
And we were actually doing really good until it was Hilary's "turn". Bill and Obama were both (relatively) young, and I don't think even James Carville is dumb enough to say their (relative) youth wasn't a big reason for their success.
Hell, I still remember Bill Clinton on MTV, even tho I knew nothing about politics back then.
They might not have been as progressive as they acted during their campaigns, but at least they actually tried to get the youth vote.
Trump
If he serves a 4-year term only
serves only 4 years
I hate that we have to consider that if he returns to office he will try to become dictator for life
The final fuck you from the boomers. Gen X was basically locked out of politics as boomers got rid of term limits and voted pay raises for themselves. They hold on to the reigns with arthritic claw hands while blue screening and shitting themselves. That said, Im sure as fuck voting for biden, have you seen the other guy?
This is the biggest problem right here. We have set up what was a false dichotomy into one that has now forced itself to be real. I don't want Biden or Trump in office, but to vote for anyone other than Biden waters down the vote and gives Trump the ability to compete.
My only choice is to vote "not Trump". Biden gets my vote, but its not "for Biden".
I might vote for Biden if he maintains any semblance of whatever little remains of "the rule of law" so that hopefully someone (perhaps in the UN) will press charges against him for aiding and abetting the genocide of the people of Gaza, along with the actual criminals committing crimes against humanity in the IDF. Without that, there is no rule of law and there is no justice in this world.
A related fact, especially on this tyranny of the boomers.
The birthdays of Donald Trump, George W Bush and Bill Clinton are June 1946, July 1946, August 1946.
That's right, 1992-2008, 2016-2020, 20 years (with maybe more to come) of US presidency were all born in the summer (3 months) of 1946.
And of course Hillary Clinton was born October 1947.
Reagan was
77 years and 349 days old at the completion of his second term in January 1989.
So close to 78.
William Henry Harrison is my favorite president, he gave one speech, went for a walk, and then spent the rest of his presidency in bed.