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Posted on 01/22/2026 1:53:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a potential White House hopeful for 2028, said on Wednesday that he wants a mandatory retirement age of 75 for the president and people holding office in other branches of government.
“You’re 75 years old: done,” Emanuel, a Democrat, said at a Center for American Progress event. “And that would be in the legislative branch, it’d be in the executive branch — including the Cabinet — and it’d also be in the Supreme Court, and all the federal courts.”
Emanuel, 66, acknowledged that he would be affected by this proposal if he happens to be elected president in 2028 and seeks re-election, as he would be 73 at the start of a potential second term.
“I know where I am in my age. Of course it would apply to me,” Emanuel told Politico. “You can’t say ‘here’s what I want to do to change Washington, one of the things I want to do’ — but I get an exemption because I bought it beforehand.”
The proposal would make President Donald Trump, 79, ineligible to continue serving and would have prevented former President Joe Biden, now 83, from serving his term in the White House.
In Congress, 17 senators and 45 House members are currently 75 or older and would be impacted by the standard.
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, 77, and Samuel Alito, 75, would also be barred from continuing to serve on the bench, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, 71, and John Roberts, 70, are nearing Emanuel’s mandatory retirement age. …
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Who died and made him Founding Father?
Might make his head explode.
There's one old guy that comes to mind, but I can't remember his name.
Oh, yeah...Trump.
sorry, i gotta agree with this. 75 is old enough.
I agree to the problem is that we can always look at the outliers of those in old age that can continue to do the job but then the majority of those over 75 cant but over there life time have built a power base that keeps them in office despite the fact that they are not capable and have not been capable for years.
Negroh bama’s Rahm ? Surprised no one took him out yet.
Looks like Rahm himself is suffering some cognitive decline. We all know he has long suffered from moral decline, as Obama’s designated sneak and bully.
Rahm was to Obama what Stalin was to Lenin. Putting him in the White House would be national suicide.
Drug test every 48 hours would go further and it wouldn’t be age related.
I note he wasn’t pushing this when China Joe was in the White House, only after Trump is President.
No, just term limits.
Where was he when Sleepy occupied the White House?
Nobody should be fooled by the seeming reasonableness of this proposal; the real target is the Supreme Court. If this were put into effect, it would cause the immediate retirement of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who have already turned 75.
(It would also apply to President Trump if it were put into effect during his current term, of course.)
Anyway, the proposal is clearly being made for political reasons. (It’s Rahm Emanuel doing it, so that’s no surprise.) Expect to see a number of proposals in the next few years to pack or modify the Supreme Court in a variety of ways.
Agree with that. Term limits makes more sense.
“No, just term limits.”
We already have term limits, It’s called elections.
I would rather have an amendment that has term limits for Congress.
Age isn’t the problem, its the corruption.
Good points!
Ronald Reagan's crowning years were at and after age 75. (Joe didn't and couldn't make it, a total failure.)
PBS has taken private their video on Rahm’s brother Zeke (the architect of the Obamacare “death panels”) arguing for plebs not to live beyond 75:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/doctors-argument-living-longer
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