I'm surprised at your entire post, except for the detail that Mr. Trump "plays golf", which I'm sure is a true detail.
For more information, I looked at The Lancet, which I believe is a respected medical journal. It has a very lengthy article, not about the fitness of Trump or Biden themselves, but about the effects the presidential administrations have on the nation's health. (Mainly it focuses on the Trump administration's effects.) Here it is:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext#seccestitle300
(This link, when clicked, doesn't work directly for me but if I paste it (the whole thing, including the number 300 at the end) into a new window then it works.)
Here's the identifying information for the Lancet article, so it can be looked up independently:
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THE LANCET COMMISSIONS| VOLUME 397, ISSUE 10275, P705-753, FEBRUARY 20, 2021
PDF [2 MB]
Public policy and health in the Trump era
Published:February 10, 2021DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32545-9
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For a comparison between the fitness of one president and another president, I finally settled on The Atlantic, a magazine that seems more assuredly respectable, and possibly less biased, or possibly less political, than the myriad of other sources that came up in my online search. (I didn't rely on the NY Times, for example, because I was sure that a lot of you here would call it politically biased.). Here's the article I found in The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/what-should-we-know-about-the-presidents-health/608392/The article says a little about Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump, but it's about many presidents, not just them.
Here's the identifying information for The Atlantic article, so it can be looked up independently:
"IDEAS
What Should We Know About the President’s Health?
Pundits and campaign operatives dissecting years of medical records would be only more fodder for political theater.
MARCH 20, 2020
Dhruv Khullar
Physician
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Back to the Original Post questions:
Age limit for the presidency:
I agree with you (maryla) that it's hard to say, as it varies case by case. Also, the potential for a long, healthy, and productive life continues to increase -- though not evenly across the board for everybody -- the increase is mainly among the people with the resources and the habits to care for their own health.
Some 85-year-olds would be a lot better presidents than some of the prominent politicians who are much younger. If there is an age limit for the presidency, it should be pretty high, like maybe 85 or 90. Some people get wiser as they get older. Some get more experienced and more connected to other people who can help form a good government.
(Interestingly, not everyone _wants_ good government, but prefers to destroy the government.)
Term limits for Congress:
I think there should be term limits, but I don't know how long they should be. Reforming campaign finance, or reforming how campaigns are run, or how the media covers them, would probably help make a better Congress, more than changing term limits.
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