Trump vs Biden: Why Different Rules? #election #news

18 May 2026 · 1 min

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TJ Walker responds to an Atlantic article asking why Trump faces less age scrutiny than Biden did. He argues that society already sets age limits in many contexts and that the Constitution's minimum age of 35 should have a corresponding maximum, even for extraordinary qualifications.

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John O'Rourke has a new piece in The Atlantic asking why Donald Trump, who's about to turn 80, isn't facing the same level of scrutiny Joe Biden faced at that age. And that is the right question, but I want to go bigger today. I don't want to ask just, is Donald Trump too old? I want to ask, what's the actual mathematical age limit for being president of the United States, or what should it be? Because we already believe in age limits as a society. We pretend this is some radical idea, but it really isn't. You can't be president at age 34. You could be a genius, you could be a Rhodes Scholar, you could have started a company, cured athlete's foot, brokered peace in the Middle East, and personally taught ChatGPT how to stop using dashes. Still, no, the Constitution says you must be 35. Ultimise.