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    Has Anyone Noticed That Trump Is Really Old?

    He’s younger than Biden, but not by much.
    by David A. Graham Nov 20, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty

    Donald Trump is an old man.

    He’s 77 years old. When Trump was born, Harry S. Truman was president and Perry Como topped the year’s pop charts. Betty White hadn’t yet started her career in film. Israel and Pakistan didn’t exist. Korea was a unified country, and Vietnam was not. The pioneering computer ENIAC was just four months old.

    Trump’s cultural references are dated, and only getting more so. Elton John and the Rolling Stones headline his rally playlists. When, as president, he had a chance to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, his Babe Ruth (who died in 1948) and Elvis).

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