President Donald Trump, 80, fixated on negative coverage of his swollen ‘cankles’ during an explosive White House moment, as his staff whisper about his ‘old’ age, a new book reveals.
The President is on track to set the record to become the country’s oldest President, surpassing a top political rival, former President Joe Biden, who left office at 82.
In Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan wrote that despite the President and his doctors’ insistence that he’s in ‘exceptional’ health, he’s showing the wear and tear of an octogenarian.
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