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How old is Trump? Here's how old the former president will be on Election Day 2024.

America’s past two presidents have been the oldest in the country’s history and 2024 has the potential to continue that trend. In 2020, Joe Biden became the oldest president ever elected. Now 81, he's the first octogenarian president.

It's an issue many young voters are raising – should the age of the president more closely reflect the age of the electorate? It's been a conversation on the campaign trail, as former Republican candidate Nikki Haley took a series of jabs at former President Donald Trump's age.

But how old is Trump? Here's his current age, plus how old he was when he became the 45th president in 2017.

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

How old is Donald Trump?

On June 14, 2023, Donald Trump turned 77 years old. 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.

Trump is running for office once more and will be 78 years old by the time Americans vote in the 2024 election. Biden, also running for reelection, will be an 81-year-old candidate in 2024.

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How old were previous United States 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 swearing into office. 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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