Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Trump is at the age (same as me) where energy and mental acuity become compromised when stressed physically and/or mentally. He appears beyond tired. He won't admit it, but I'd guess that he is starting to accept that he has bitten off more than he can chew.
I've forgotten...is there a minimum age to run for President? Is there a maximum to run, or to serve? Just curious.
Candy
You have to be 35 to be President, but you can run if you're younger as long as if elected, you would be 35 by Inauguration Day. There is no Constitutionally stated maximum age. The 25th Amendment was supposed to take care of situations like this. But a removal from office of a sitting President would have to be done by his Cabinet--and whoever crafted the 25th never dreamed that a President's Cabinet would be so full of servile lackeys that they would never consider removing an obviously dysfunctional President.
Trump did it right, if that was his goal, to be unremovable: all of his Cabinet lackeys met and needed to meet only one criterion: absolute loyalty to him. All of them are completely incompetent, but to Trump, that doesn't matter one bit. All that matters is that they'll never waver in their support for him, no matter how much he deteriorates, no matter what idiotic, evil things he does.
As far as whether he's being realistic about his condition and situation: no effin' way. Remember, he's a pathological narcissist. He's telling himself that he's still absolute perfection personified and cannot make a mistake. Anyone who tells him otherwise is obviously lying (not that anyone in his inner circle ever does or ever will). And there are no checks on his power, given that all the other branches of our government are MAGA.
I personally hope that if he doesn't simply die (O happy day!), his cognition will deteriorate to the point where all he can do is stare into space and drool, and some aide will hide him from the public and basically run the government the way Edith Wilson did.
