Trumps Alter ist keine Entschuldigung für seine völlige Unanständigkeit

Donald Trump is 79 years old. He has run as the Republican nominee in three successive US elections, and the only one of them that he lost – and he did lose in 2020, despite his protestations – was also the only one in which his opponent was even older than he is.

All of which is to say this: of the long, long list of problems with Trump as US president, his age is somewhere near the bottom. Trump is an unfit president, [but not because he’s 79](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/maga-raging-epstein-out-for-blood-trumps-tactics-arent-working-4127948?ico=in-line_link).

It became immensely apparent that Joe Biden should not be the Democratic candidate in 2024 during the first presidential debate, but few honest critics could reasonably say his presidency was a disaster – the Biden White House passed major legislation, invested in infrastructure, and generally delivered on its agenda. It certainly delivered far less drama, day-to-day, than Trump’s first term.

Most of Trump’s deficiencies as a human being have little to do with age.

The current president of the United States has been found by a civil court to have sexually abused the writer E Jean Carroll, [and then to have defamed her by lying about it](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/donald-trump-ordered-to-pay-e-jean-carroll-83-3-m-in-damages-2876633?ico=in-line_link). Similarly, Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies, all charges relating to falsifying business records relating to hush money he paid to Stormy Daniels to prevent her disclosing their alleged sexual encounter before the 2016 election.

Trump is both an ignorant and an incurious president who seems to understand little of how government works, or even how normal Americans live. In speeches, he has appeared to confuse the concept of asylum – providing a safe haven to refugees – with asylums that treat the mentally ill. He seems [unaware of how tariffs work](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-is-trying-to-pivot-and-failing-miserably-as-polling-numbers-tank-4093200?ico=in-line_link). He has repeatedly claimed to know nothing about the criminals he routinely pardons during his term.

Sometimes Trump’s ignorance is attributed to his age, but to do so is to let him off the hook. During Trump’s first term, when he was still surrounded by at least some competent staff, details of how he operated leaked out from horrified officials. Trump would simply not read intelligence briefings – to get his attention meant cutting briefings first to a single page, then to half a page, with bullet points. Pictures or video were essential for anyone wanting to hold his attention.

To put this down to age is to simultaneously demean older adults while also letting Trump off too lightly. Almost all of the worst traits he displays as President come from his longstanding character. It is true that he has got more extreme with time, and less filtered – but this could have any number of causes.

While it could be age (it is not uncommon to become less filtered as we get older), it could just as easily be that as he’s spent longer in power, and surrounded himself with extremists, his worst instincts have come to the fore.

His recent obsessive focus on legacy – especially naming things after himself – might be about age, but it’s also about decades of indulging his ego. Trump putting his name on buildings is hardly a new phenomenon, after all.

American voters are perfectly entitled to have concerns about Trump’s age and health, and the rest of us are free to speculate, too. He is an elected politician occupying the most powerful job role in the West, not a private citizen. The fact he seems to slur his speech at times, or fall asleep in meetings, is a matter of public concern.

Orange sludge 

Oh there are many, many reasons, each one by itself disqualifying, one of which is his dementia. There’s also malignant narcissism, breaking the law every single day with some extreme act that requires congressional approval, the bribes, the list goes on.

I once got called a MaGat for pointing out Fettermans brain damage. Trumps got it too. Age is part of it in the latter case. But make no mistake, Trumps always been insane.

Conservatism, affected by congenital dementia, takes on threatening proportions and can cover the whole world, seizing power and spreading its destructive ideology. This destructive virus causes moral decay and intellectual extinction of people, turning them into weak-willed and thoughtless creatures resembling zombies.

This article is very naive. It assumes a fundamental decency among Americans that no longer exists. Large portions of our country not only tolerate Trump’s indecency, they celebrate it. It’s why they are so devoted to him. The more vicious and stupid Trump behaves, the more they love him. He is their retribution on a world that they fear and despise.

Obviously. He’s been indecent since he was 6.

After the way MAGA treated President Biden, President Trump’s age is absolutely no excuse for his behavior.

MAGA and Republicans are incredibly hypocritical. I realize they don’t care about that, but I refuse to stop calling it out whenever I see it.

Guys, your candidate is old, fat, and out of shape. He doesn’t eat healthy, he doesn’t exercise, and he lies about his physical fitness reports. He is the least fit president ever, and President Taft supposedly got stuck in a bathtub (myth)!

So here’s a problem with a cult. Once the cult leader can’t BE the cult leader anymore, who is the cult going to follow? J.D. Vance, the Sectional Offender? Not likely. Donald Trump Junior? No. Eric Trump? No.

Who’s it gonna be? Who’s going to be your Revered Leader when Agent Orange strokes out?