The former chairman of the Republican Party turned the tables on Donald Trump’s long-running criticsm of Joe Biden and suggested it’s now the president-elect who may be “too old” to hold his own — especially against his new “best buddy” Elon Musk.
Michael Steele hit out amid lawmakers’ harsh rebukes of Trump after the tech billionaire appeared to play a major role earlier this week via X to kill the first bipartisan stopgap government funding deall floated by Republican House speaker Mike Johnson.
Trump issued a statement agreeing with his billionaire backer only after Musk launched the initial attacks, leading some to mock Trump as Musk’s obsequious vice president.
Steele took his shot on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday with program co-host Symone Sanders Townsend when she wondered what had happened to the hard-driving Trump of his reality TV show.
“Where is the Donald Trump from The Apprentice?” she asked “The man talking about hired, fired, hired, fired, you go. The Donald Trump I thought the people elected — not me but the other people — he’s the one that would usually like to lay down the law and be clear about where he stands.”
Trump, 78, has repeatedly pummeled Biden over the years as a doddering old man, even though the president is only four years older than the president-elect.
It’s Trump who will become the oldest president in U.S. history. Some of his behavior in the past years already raised concerns among critics about his continuined competence as he heads into his 80s in the White House.
During his last administration Trump referred to airports during America’s Revolutionary War. He has flubbed locations he’s in and identies of people (including “Leon” Musk), slurred words and spent the large part of what was supposed to be a question-and-answer campaign appearance in October instead swaying to music.
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