Contemplating Trump at 80

Contributing Opinion Writer

President Trump is giving old people a bad name.

Think about it. In June he’ll be 80, only the second president in American history to reach that age in office. Right now the record-holder is, yeah, Joe Biden. But if Trump makes it to the end of Term 2, he’ll beat Biden for the Oldest Ever title.

If you want to dwell on the positive side of age and our chief executives, we really ought to start with Jimmy Carter, who finished his White House career in 1981 but continued trying to be a useful citizen for several decades. He lived to be 100 and won a Nobel Prize for his humanitarian work late in life. He helped the........

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