Donald Trump was the oldest US President to ever be inaugurated at 78. After 11 months in office, Trump’s fitness to lead the country has been called into question.

This is mostly thanks to increased speculation around his health: his hands are often bruised, he has appeared to fall asleep in meetings and slur his speech, and some commentators have argued that his erratic behaviour and policy changes suggest mental decline.

Yet he insists he is the pinnacle of health at age 79, saying that “there will be a day when I run low on energy, it happens to everyone, but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now!”

So, is Donald Trump too old to be president? Political editor of The New World, James Ball; journalist and 80-year-old Robert Fox; and director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting Sarah Baxter offer their perspectives.

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........

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