Donald Trump has been mocking Joe Biden for months and boasting about being an energetic leader in front of an 81-year-old man, but age does not forgive and The Republican turns 78 this Friday They also raise questions about his physical condition and mental agility.
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The first to take the opportunity to send a birthday message to Trump this Friday was his opponent Biden, who is in Italy within the framework of the G7 summit. However, his campaign team used X’s account to tell the Republican that age is just a number.
“Happy 78th birthday, Donald. Take it from one old man to another: age is just a number,” wrote Biden on the social network
And it is that Whether Joe Biden wins the November 5 election or Donald Trump, both would be the oldest American president. in taking the oath.
Yet the polls are clear: Many more Americans believe the current president is too old for a second term than those who complain about Donald Trump’s age.
Biden, 81, objectively shows recurring signs of fatigue: his gait is increasingly stiff and he sometimes appears dazed.
Videos of the American president walking away, emaciated, from a group of G7 leaders, stumbling or stuttering, are widely shared on social media. Although some of them are false and are used by the Trump campaign to criticize Biden.
But in recent months Donald Trump also confused the names of several cities and leaders, warned that the world was heading towards a second world war, instead of the third, and launched into disjointed diatribes.
Former President of the United States Donald Trump, at a press conference.
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On Thursday, in a closed-door meeting with Republican congressmen, he described Milwaukee, a strategic city in many ways for the US elections, as “horrible”, which provoked an avalanche of criticism and questions.
These mistakes, the videos in which you hold on to a railing to avoid slipping or shake while drinking a glass of water Are they examples of a decline of the former president? It is not known, but Biden’s campaign team also uses it to attack him.
Happy birthday, Donald. You are a criminal, a failure, an imposter and a threat to our democracy
On the occasion of Trump’s birthday, The Democratic president’s side published a statement on Friday accompanied by a large-format and very unflattering photograph of the Republican. in which he is seen sweating, with red cheeks and haggard features.
“Happy birthday, Donald. You are a criminal, a failure, an imposter, and a threat to our democracy,” James Singer, a spokesman for Joe Biden’s campaign team, said in the statement.
“On behalf of America, here’s an early gift for your 79th birthday: We’ll make sure you’ll never be president again,” he says.
The statement also compiles “78 historic achievements of Trump” that detail details such as his judicial processes, their business failures, falling asleep or calling irregular migrants trying to enter the United States animals.
Inbox: Biden camp in Spanish shares 78 Trump “achievements” for his 78th bday
They include falling asleep, bankruptcy is numbers 2-8, calling immigrants animals who are poisoning blood of the nation, business failures, launching his political career on racist Obama birth lies pic.twitter.com/wxHeLjhWps
— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) June 14, 2024
These comments irritated Trump’s team, who in turn described Joe Biden as “weak and incompetent.” “He is a brain-dead zombie,” a spokeswoman said in a statement to the AFP.
The age of presidents, a debate that is not new
Debates about the age of American presidents are not new.
During Ronald Reagan’s second term, some observers were already wondering about the deterioration of his intellectual abilities.
Former US President Jimmy Carter sounded the alarm in a 1994 message expressing concern about the “danger” posed to the United States by the possibility of a president’s capabilities being diminished by a “neurological disease.”
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, arrives at Orly airport in Paris.
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Donald Trump will celebrate his birthday with a big party in a ballroom very close to Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious residence in Florida.
“Join us as we celebrate the birthday of the GREATEST PRESIDENT of all time,” reads the invitation card, which asks attendees to come dressed in the colors of the American flag.
He is scheduled to give a speech this Friday at 7:00 pm local time.
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