It’s Donald Trump’s 78th Birthday. He Isn’t Happy About It.
The New York Times
As he vies to become the oldest person to be elected president of the United States, former President Donald J. Trump said this birthday was one he wanted to ignore.
“Donald hates his birthdays,” Ivana Trump once said of her former husband.
He seemed to hate this one, on Friday, especially. He looked genuinely upset earlier this week when his supporters sang an early “Happy Birthday” to him at a rally in Las Vegas. “You know,” he told them, “there’s a certain point at which you don’t want to hear ‘Happy Birthday.’ You just want to pretend the day doesn’t exist.”
No doubt. Now 78, he is trying to convince the country to give him another four years in office, at the end of which he would be the oldest president in American history — a mantle held by the current, 81-year-old occupant of the Oval Office.
On the campaign trail, both men try to downplay their age while making the other appear as creaky and cranky as possible.
The Trump team spent the week blasting out selectively edited videos of Mr. Biden toddling around Europe, looking like Corrado Soprano lost in Newark. “We have a president who has no clue what the hell is going on,” Mr. Trump said at a birthday celebration with supporters in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday evening.
The Biden campaign hit back with an email on Mr. Trump’s birthday, reminding voters that he had fallen asleep at his own trial, a case that resulted in felony convictions. “He is unhinged, unable to focus and diminishing before our very eyes,” James Singer, a Biden campaign spokesman, said of the former president.
