Monday
It can be hard to remember sometimes that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are approximately the same age – Biden is 80 to Trump’s 77 – so that if one is too old to lead the free world, categorically the other is, too. Even among sensible observers, however, this is not how the age conversation shakes out. On Sunday night, Biden arrived for a state visit to Vietnam, kicking off a tour of Asia, and on Monday the New York Times splashed with a headline that played on the idea of the president as a doddery old man: “‘It is evening, isn’t it?’ An 80-year-old president’s whirlwind trip”.
