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 will turn 80 in 2026, the year the US celebrates its 250th anniversary of independence. Think about it. The President’s own country, founded in 1776, is barely more than three times his age.

Trump was already the oldest elected president in US history when he came to power in 2016. That was 10 years ago, when he was a 70-year-old stripling. Then 78-year-old Joe Biden came along in 2020 and pushed him into........

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