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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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”.
Voting for Biden while hating him is giving into a broken system. Either don’t vote or vote for a third-party candidate whom you agree with. Nobody is to blame for voting with their morals.
On an individual level, you’re wrong. At this point either a Democrat or a Republican will be elected. If you vote third party instead of Biden, that’s effectively the same as voting for Trump. I agree with you on principal but you’re missing the reality of the situation. Right now we can’t look for perfection, just progress in the right (left) direction. Move the needle enough then sure, vote from the heart. But we aren’t there.
Voting third party won’t fix the system and Trump will make it infinitely worse.
There is a path to ranked choice voting and it involves pushing democrats to prioritize it.
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.