Trump tells Megyn Kelly that President Biden is not too ‘old’ just ‘grossly incompetent’

Donald Trump says that while Joe Biden is “grossly incompetent,” he doesn’t feel he’s too old to be president.

With just three years separating the two 2024 frontrunners, many are concerned about the increasing age of presidential candidates — as well as other leaders in Congress.

Polls show that more than three-quarters of Americans believe Biden, 80, is too old to stay in office for another four years.

But Trump, 77, told Megyn Kelly that age is not the problem.

‘I have a lot of friends in their eighties. I have friends… who are in their nineties and they are sharp as a tack. Just, I mean, I would say, about what they used to be. No, not old. He is incompetent,” Trump said of Biden.

Trump said Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Great Britain until he was 80

The ex-president said he knows many people who are old and still competent, like 94-year-old businessman Bernie Marcus. He also noted that Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until he was 80, when he resigned after a series of health problems, including strokes.

After leading Britain during the Second World War, Churchill became prime minister for a second time in 1951, when he was 76.

He resigned on April 5, 1955, when he was 80, and was succeeded by Anthony Eden.

In June 1953, when he was 78, Churchill suffered a stroke, which was initially undisclosed while he recovered.

After his stroke, Churchill faced pressure from some senior colleagues to retire, but he continued for almost two years, believing that only he could deal with the threat from the Soviet Union. He remained a member of parliament until 1964, when he was 89, and died the following year at the age of 90.

If Biden were re-elected, he would break his own record as the oldest ever inaugurated US president at 82 years old.

Trump is the oldest president after Biden. He was inaugurated at the age of 70. He defeated former President Ronald Reagan by about a year.

“Age is interesting because some people are very sharp and some people lose it, but you also lose it at 40 and 50,” Trump told Kelly. ‘But no, he’s not too old at all. He’s downright incompetent.’

“Look at some of the great world leaders, they were in their eighties and they did – I mean, Churchill, so many people. They were phenomenal in the ’80s. You know, there’s great wisdom in not being in a position like him, but if you go back 25 years, he wasn’t that sharp either.

Kelly and Trump don’t have the most civilized history.

The former Fox News host and ex-president have publicly railed following the 2016 election.

Trump sat down with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who now has her own podcast The Megyn Kelly Show, despite the duo’s tense past

Trump told CNN in the days after the August 2015 primary debate that Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

It appears the feud is now water under the bridge, as Kelly released clips of her sit-down interview with Trump on Thursday morning.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who often comes second to Trump in the 2024 primaries, said in an interview with CBS News broadcast Tuesday that he is also concerned about the age of some of his competitors.

“The presidency is not a job for someone who is 80 years old,” DeSantis said, adding that age is a “legitimate concern” for voters.

He added that if the Founding Fathers knew how old some of these leaders would be in the future, they would likely have instituted an age limit for certain offices.

An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released last month found that 77 percent of Americans think Biden is too old for a second term. This includes no fewer than 69 percent of Democrats.

Despite this statistic, there are no legitimate challengers in the Democratic primaries against Biden. Both Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Marianne Williamson have made a longshot bid for the nomination.

The same AP/NORC poll shows that 51 percent of Americans think Trump is too old to be president again.

Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he supports age limits for lawmakers in Congress and said the ages of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are “absolutely a legitimate concern.”