Trump Accidentally Makes The Case That He’s Too Old To Be President Again

Over the weekend, Donald Trump claimed during his Wisconsin rally that people over the age of 80 should not be trusted to sign documents. He was trying to attack the Georgia investigation into his post-election activities, but what he did instead was remind people that he is too old to properly serve as President of the United States. He’s 78 right now and would be 80 before the halfway point of a second term, meaning, by his own standards, he can’t be trusted to be President. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump has accidentally made the case that Donald Trump should never be the president of the United States ever again. And he did it during his rally in Wisconsin this past Saturday. Now, Trump did a lot of things in that rally, you know, said some horrible things. He had plenty of mistakes. And because of those two separate things, kind of taking up the headlines, another thing that happened with Donald Trump during that, uh, rally, kind of flew under the radar. And it was when Donald Trump went on a tear about the Georgia case against him, where he suggested that anyone over the age of 80 should, uh, not be trusted to sign documents. In fact, let me read you this from the International Business Times, former president Donald Trump, indicated at a Wisconsin campaign rally Saturday that people in their eighties are too frail to competently sign documents. He threw out the comment as he railed about the elderly being called on to apparently sign voting a attestations or witness statements in Fulton County, district Attorney Fannie Willis' investigation into election interference in Georgia. And then he actually went on to mock him. He said, you had people in their eighties, would you sign here? He mockingly told the rally crowd apparently posing as Willis or her investigators leaning on the feeble elderly.

So according to Donald Trump, who happens to be 78 years old, people over the age of 80 simply cannot be trusted mentally to sign documents. You see why that's a problem for Donald Trump, who again, is 78 years old today, before we're even halfway through a second term of Donald Trump, he would be 80 years old, which by his own standards means that we shouldn't trust him to sign any documents, which then of course, would mean that he wouldn't be able to sign any bills. He couldn't issue any executive orders, he couldn't even sign Christmas cards to people. He couldn't sign any documents because he says people over the age of 80 simply cannot be mentally trusted. So by his own standards, we now all are required, I guess, to vote against him in November. I, I'm just trying to take his advice here. I'm just trying to tell you to listen to the man for once and make sure that this feeble 78-year-old, that's clearly never worked out a day in his life. So God only knows what's happening in here. Um, he doesn't think that he should be president. And again, I have to reiterate this, as I've said in the past, just because somebody is old does not mean that their mind is slipping. Yes, it does tend to happen with age reaction times do get slower no matter how mentally fit you are,

But not everybody who gets into old age. If you make it that far, not everybody has dementia or Alzheimer's or any other kind of, you know, disease that is going to cognitively impair you. So Trump's statement, first of all, is ageist, like right out the gate, totally ageist because it lumps every single person into one category, which as we know, is never the case ever with any group of people, no matter which category you're trying to put 'em in. But for him, at 78 years old, we've already seen the signs that he is not all there anymore. Hell, in this rally alone, he referred to Elon Musk as Leon, he couldn't pronounce the word eliminate. He referred to Wisconsin, GOP Chair, Brian Shimming as Breyer. So in this speech where he's saying that, hey, elderly people can't be trusted, he repeatedly screwed things up time after time, after time. And that's just a handful of them. There were actually plenty more than that.