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While aiming to be the oldest user to be elected president of the United States, former President Donald J. Trump said that this anniversary was an anniversary he sought to ignore.
By Shawn McCreesh
“Donald hates his birthdays,” Ivana Trump once said of her ex-husband.
He’ll hate this one, especially on Friday. He seemed genuinely disappointed earlier this week when his fans sang “Happy Birthday” to him at a rally in Las Vegas. “You know,” he told them, “there’s a certain point where you don’t need to hear ‘Happy Birthday. ” already. ” You just need to pretend that this day doesn’t exist.
There is no doubt. Now 78, he is seeking to convince the country to give him another four years in office, at the end of which he will become the oldest president in U. S. history, a role played by the current occupant of the Oval, who is 81. . Office.
During the election campaign, both try to downplay their age while making the other seem as irritable and grumpy as possible.
Trump’s team spent the week releasing selectively edited videos of Biden walking through Europe, such as Corrado Soprano lost in Newark. “We have a president who has no idea what’s going on,” Trump said at a birthday party with supporters. in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday night.
Biden’s crusade responded with an email on the day of Biden’s campaign birthday. Trump, reminding the electorate that he had fallen asleep in his own trial, a case that resulted in felony convictions. “It’s unbalanced, it can’t do it, and it’s diminishing before our eyes. “James Singer, a spokesman for Biden’s crusade, said of the former president.
Mr. Trump laughs on his birthdays. “Donald, the boy who threw the cake at birthday parties,” his younger brother, Robert, once told journalist Marie Brenner. After becoming a tycoon, Trump hosted swinger parties at his Atlantic City casinos. New Jersey, such as Trump’s 42nd birthday in 1988 at Trump Castle, where he played videos of Liza Minnelli and Billy Crystal wishing him a happy birthday. (President Ronald Reagan sent a telegram. )
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