Is Trump too old to run for President?

[°Leprechaun]

What do you think?

He will be 78 on election day.
Biden was 77 when he was elected.

Please discuss.

They could both be alive on January 20, 2029.
If one of them is elected next year,
1/20/2029 will be the day a new President will be inaugurated, who could be re elected in 2032.

[Old Man Willow]

Like with Biden being gaffe prone his whole career, it's difficult to gauge whether age is affecting Trump cognitively considering most of his speeches and interviews have always consisted of little more than incoherent rambling.

[°Leprechaun]

This is the map on the home page of this site.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

Yes, Trump is a bit too old to be President as no one should be in the office a day past age 80. The ideal age for a President imo is mid-high 50's which means you can serve two terms before even turning 70.

[Randy Marsh]

He's still mentally all there which is all that matters

[°Leprechaun]

Yes, Trump is a bit too old to be President as no one should be in the office a day past age 80. The ideal age for a President imo is mid-high 50's which means you can serve two terms before even turning 70.

Two and a half terms is the actual limit as per the Constitution.
For example, L. Johnson could have served from 1963-1973 if he hadn't dropped out.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I have to say no in order to not be a hypocrite.

[Randy Marsh]

Yes, Trump is a bit too old to be President as no one should be in the office a day past age 80. The ideal age for a President imo is mid-high 50's which means you can serve two terms before even turning 70.

Two and a half terms is the actual limit as per the Constitution.
For example, L. Johnson could have served from 1963-1973 if he hadn't dropped out.

Legal scholars debate whether you could serve more terms by being in the line of succession. For example, run for VP and have the president resign

[°Leprechaun]

Yes, Trump is a bit too old to be President as no one should be in the office a day past age 80. The ideal age for a President imo is mid-high 50's which means you can serve two terms before even turning 70.

Two and a half terms is the actual limit as per the Constitution.
For example, L. Johnson could have served from 1963-1973 if he hadn't dropped out.

Legal scholars debate whether you could serve more terms by being in the line of succession. For example, run for VP and have the president resign

I've never heard that. I'm not saying that you're wrong, but how would you know if that was a plan unless the President or VP admitted it? JFK was the only President to die in office since the two term limit went into effect. Ford served more than two years, so it wouldn't apply to him.

[John Dule]

He's still mentally all there which is all that matters

This has never been true.

[Roll Roons]

He's still mentally all there which is all that matters

In what universe?

[DaleCooper]

It's his obesity combined with his age that makes him unfit to run for president. If he wins there is probably a 30-40% chance that he will be dead or completely incapacitated before the midterm elections.

[Plankton5165]

If you ask me, yes.

I even thought he was too old in 2016. I realized he would break the record for the oldest newly inaugurated POTUS, at 70. That record had previously gone to Ronald Reagan, who was 69 in 1981, and not to mention turned 70 about two weeks later.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

This is the map on the home page of this site.

NV has an R bias and so does GA

[°Leprechaun]

This is the map on the home page of this site.

NV has an R bias and so does GA

Do you think that Biden will win Arizona or Wisconsin?

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Yes, Trump is a bit too old to be President as no one should be in the office a day past age 80. The ideal age for a President imo is mid-high 50's which means you can serve two terms before even turning 70.

Two and a half terms is the actual limit as per the Constitution.
For example, L. Johnson could have served from 1963-1973 if he hadn't dropped out.

Legal scholars debate whether you could serve more terms by being in the line of succession. For example, run for VP and have the president resign

This is true for positions later in the line of succession, but not for VP. The 12th amendment states “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Yes because polling is understatement of the blk vote giving Biden under 75 percent and Trump doesn't have Colin Powell he appointed Neil Gorduch Biden is gonna bring it up. It hurts Trump in NV especially because Lombardo won because he is Pro Choice like Sandoval not because he is Pro life. Why do you think Ayotte is gonna lose to Craig she is pro Life.

Sununu won  being Pro like he was the incumbency, why do you think Brown and Tester are doing better than Bullock and Ryan due to incumbency

Do you think Biden isn't gonna remind voters that Trump picked the worse Justice Gorduch of all people, he could of picked so many other Conserv and it was Obama pick not Trump's

As I said Biden is targeting the 303 states and Super PACs are targeting MO,  MT and OH we don't need FL or TX good luck to Allred or Powell but we have to start cutting our losses and donate to candidates that can actually win that's why Deminga was cut off and Beasley and Ryan and Barnes were salvageable in 22 on Facebook it already had Kunce, Quade Tester, Stein Ferguson, Craig Gallego and Brown no ALLRED or Powell anymore

We have won red states outside of TX and FL, we won MO, OH, KS and KY anyways

[emailking]

Yes 78 is too old for people to go to the polls to elect someone to a nonconsecutive term.

[TDAS04]

There really isn’t a magic number when someone suddenly becomes “too old” to be President. Age per se is not an issue (except for when a candidate is Constutiinally too young). Health is an issue, however, as is mental competence. Plus people typically don’t want to elect people who are likely to die before completing their term. Age of course does impact the likelihood that such fears come true, but while 62 was arguably “too old” for FDR to serve a fourth term—heck, maybe 47 would have been “too old” for JFK to seek a second term—I think Bernie Sanders could have been a fine 8-year president, even though he would have been well into his 80s at the end of his administration; look at how healthy Bernie is, I’m not aware of any serious health problems he’s ever had to deal with.

There’s more reason to be concerned about Biden and Trump. Biden had quite a scare back in 1988, and Trump has very unhealthy habits, but I have no reason not to believe that either would likely survive one more term while maintaining acceptable levels of health and cognition. I have plenty of reasons to be EXTREMELY worried about a Trump return to the presidency, but I wouldn’t say that age is one of them. Ideally, Biden would be under 80 come Inauguration Day, 2025, but Democrats don’t have a better option, and I believe that Biden could easily complete 8 years as a pretty successful POTUS and still be healthy enough to enjoy retirement for a decent number of years.

[MarkD]

No.
He's too arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic, deceitful, deluded, and divisive to BE president. But he can run for president.

[MABA 2020]

Yes, as is Biden

[Xing]

No, since no one is “too old” (age itself is not the problem), but there are about 37 other things which he is “too much” of to be president.

[Mister Mets]

He kinda is.

I wonder if Michelle Obama or Beto O'Rourke were elected in 2020, would Trump's age be seen as prohibitive?

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Yes, as is Biden

This is the only correct answer.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He has J6 and Rs in the Forum act like Trump has been cleared because Harris X has him up 4 nothing has changed with Trump he is still a criminal