{"id":1475760,"date":"2024-07-07T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1475760"},"modified":"2024-07-07T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:45:00","slug":"are-us-presidents-getting-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/are-us-presidents-getting-older\/1475760\/","title":{"rendered":"Are US Presidents Getting Older?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Are US Presidents Getting Older?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>After the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/11901\/2024-us-presidential-election\/\">presidential debate<\/a>\u00a0featuring both incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden and his challenger, former President Donald Trump, <strong>the topic of Biden&#8217;s age &#8211; currently 81 &#8211; has been thrust back into the spotlight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/19665\/age-of-us-presidents-at-inauguration\/\">In fact, as Statista&#8217;s Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, <\/a><strong>Biden and Trump were the oldest U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/4378\/media-and-politics-in-the-us\/\">presidents<\/a>\u00a0ever at the time of their inauguration. <\/strong>Trump was 70 years old in 2017 and Biden was 78 in 2021. Ronald Reagan, who was 69 in 1981, comes third. At the start of a second term, Biden would be 82, making him 86 when reaching his term limit. Trump is now 78 &#8211; the same age as Biden when he started his first term &#8211; and would be 82 at term limit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking a look at all presidents\u2019 ages at the time of their inauguration since 1789, no clear trend is visible. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/19665\/age-of-us-presidents-at-inauguration\/\" title=\"Infographic: Are U.S. Presidents Getting Older? | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before Trump and Biden, presidents\u2019 ages were actually well below average<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama took office at 47 years and 169 days,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.potus.com\/presidential-facts\/age-at-inauguration\/\">according to Potus.com<\/a>, making him the fifth youngest president at the time of inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton, who was 46 when he took over, was the third youngest &#8211; only John F. Kennedy (43) and Teddy Roosevelt (42) were younger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the oldest presidents hail from past centuries. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Henry Harrison was 68 at his inauguration in 1841 (he died a month later of typhoid and pneumonia), making him the fourth-oldest president ever.<\/p>\n<p>James Buchanan, who took office in 1857, was the fifth-oldest president at 65.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 07\/07\/2024 &#8211; 08:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/are-us-presidents-getting-older-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/are-us-presidents-getting-older-1<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are US Presidents Getting Older? After the first\u00a0presidential debate\u00a0featuring both incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden and his challenger, former President Donald Trump, the topic of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1475761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6bUA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/19665-MT7e8g.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}