Donald Trump vs. Elon Musk, the Age/Old Battle

Donald Trump has publicly criticized Elon Musk, and Musk has responded by arguing that Trump’s age makes him unfit for office. But is this true? Should people age out of eligibility for political office or other positions of power?

There may be no more polarizing figures in modern America than Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and now they are openly talking about one another. During a recent rally in Alaska, Trump went after Musk while discussing the ongoing saga regarding the sale of Twitter. Afterwards, Musk took to that very platform to say “I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.”

To clarify what he was referring to, Musk added “Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America.”

This might come as news to the likes of Warren Buffett, the 91 year old Oracle of Omaha.

But what Musk is really criticizing here isn’t Trump’s actual fitness for office, but his chronological age. And historically, chronological age has been correlated with biologi