How old is Trump? Former president's age has been a subject of the 2024 election
America’s past two presidents have been the oldest in the country’s history. When Donald Trump was elected in 2017, he set the record. In 2020, Joe Biden set it again and is currently the oldest president ever elected.
Age has been a hot topic in the 2024 election – first with Biden as an 81-year-old candidate and then when he dropped out, putting Vice President Kamala Harris into the race and making Trump the race's oldest player.
But how old is Trump? Here's his current age, plus how old he was when he became the 45th president in 2017.
How old is Donald Trump?
Trump turned 78 years old on June 14 this year. At the time of his 2017 inauguration into office, he was 70, the oldest age a president had ever been elected at that time. By 2020, he was 74 and running for reelection.
How old is Kamala Harris?
Harris is 60 years old, born Oct. 20, 1964. When she was sworn in as vice president at age 56 in 2021, Harris became the first woman, the first Black American and the first South Asian American in the role.
How old were other U.S. presidents?
The U.S. is no stranger to senior citizens as presidents. Ronald Reagan, inaugurated in 1981, was 69 years old for his election and inauguration. The fourth-oldest president in the country’s history was President William Henry Harrison at 68 in 1841.
President Theodore Roosevelt, commonly known as Teddy, was the youngest president in the nation’s history at 42, only slightly above the 2019 population’s average age of 38. Recent president Barack Obama won office at 47 in 2008, becoming the fifth-youngest president.
How old are other world leaders?
One of the most well-known world leaders is Vladimir Putin, president of Russia as of July 2023. Putin is currently 70 years old, but he entered office in 2000 at 47 and was sworn in for a fourth time in 2018 at 66. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is 45 years old.
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