The U.S. Has Its Oldest Serving President in History
The United States currently has the oldest serving president in its 248-year history. When Joe Biden was elected as the 46th President in January 2021, he was 78 years and 61 days old. By the end of his term, he will be 82 years and 61 days old.
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, holds the record as the oldest nominee for the Oval Office. If he wins the election on November 5, he will be 156 days older at the end of his four-year term than Biden was when his term concludes.
Biden is notably older than any other former president, with Trump being the only other candidate to be in his 70s at the time of election. If Trump were to lose this November and then decide to run again in 2028, he would be 82 years and 220 days old upon potentially returning to the White House, and 86 years and 220 days old by the end of that term.
Thankfully, Sinclair Broadcast Group journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked him that very question during an interview on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. When asked whether he would run again, the 78-year-old responded, “No, I don’t. No, I don’t. I think that will be it. I don’t see that at all. I think that hopefully we’re gonna be successful.”
While he claims he wouldn’t run again, given what we know about the former president, it would be surprising if that were the case—it all hinges on the upcoming election. Is it just me, or does it feel strange to imagine a future presidential election without Trump?
He has run for president four times in total: first in 2000 for the Reform Party, winning in 2016 as the Republican nominee, losing to Biden in 2020, and now facing off against Harris.
Perhaps he is being truthful about not running again; after all, he has survived two assassination attempts in the past three months, though it doesn’t seem to have affected him. On July 13, Trump narrowly escaped death when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on him during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, from a slanted roof just 150 meters away. This incident tragically resulted in the death of volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore, a father of two, and critically injured two others.
Just eight days ago, on September 15, Ryan Wesley Routh from Hawaii was accused of arriving at the Trump International Golf Course in Florida armed with a rifle, intending to k!ll the former president.