NYTIMES (Lynsey Chutel) - Hating Matcha, Yet Loving Life, Made Him a TikTok Star at 89
Werner Kalecinski is a social media sensation among young Germans. How did he go from heartbroken widower to partying on a yacht?
DAILYCALLER (Mark Tanos) - Trump Gives Blunt Response To Question On Mitch McConnell’s Health
‘Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned’
President Donald Trump apparently has no more insight into Sen. Mitch McConnell’s condition than the rest of the country does. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, the president said he had not spoken with the Kentucky Republican since his recent hospitalization. “I have no idea how he’s doing,” Trump said, according to CNN’s Alayna Treene. McConnell, 84, has not been seen or heard from publicly since he entered the hospital on June 14, and his office has declined to explain what sent him there, WHAS11 reported . The longest-serving senator in Kentucky history plans to leave Congress when his current term ends in January 2027. (RELATED: We Asked Mitch McConnell’s Staff About His Health. This Is What They…Open
DAILYCALLER (Ashley Brasfield) - GOP Rep Sparks Questions About Whether McConnell Is Even In DC — His Team Says That’s Not What He Meant
‘I hope he’s back in Washington soon’
Republican Kentucky Rep. Brett Guthrie insinuated that Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell — absent from public for weeks following a medical emergency — isn’t even in Washington, D.C. A spokesperson for Guthrie told the Daily Caller that’s not what he meant. In a video posted to X by Courier Journal state politics reporter Keely Doll, Guthrie said he has contacted people on Mitch McConnell’s staff and exchanged text messages with the senator, but has not spoken with him directly by phone. (RELATED: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Demands Mitch McConnell Publicly Disclose Health Status) Guthrie added that he understood McConnell had spoken with John Thune “yesterday, or the day before,” as well as John Barrasso and…Open
DAILYCALLER (John Loftus) - Is It Really This Hard For Politicians To Admit The Truth About Their Health?
‘I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning’
Joe Biden. Mitch McConnell. The congressman nobody had heard about until he went missing for months. Why are politicians so opaque about their health and cognitive abilities? Americans have unfortunately come to assume that politicians lie virtually every time they open their mouths. Now, we all assume that when a politician is too old or beleaguered by an aging body and brain to serve in office, their handlers will also lie and dodge and chum the waters with carefully crafted statements rather than just telling the truth, plain and simple. (RELATED: Jill Biden Took Joe To Waffle House After Thinking He Had Stroke On Stage) For his entire presidency, Biden’s lapsing mind and general senility were covered up by corporate media, members…Open
NYTIMES (New York Times Opinion) - Trump Is 80. Bob Dylan and Five More Octogenarians Have Some Words of Wisdom.
“I feel the same as I did 50 years ago,” President Trump said. “It’s crazy.”
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Nic Rowan) - New Book, Old Look
Samuel Moyn has something to say about the elderly, but it’s not exactly clear what. The post New Book, Old Look appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books New Book, Old Look Samuel Moyn has something to say about the elderly, but it’s not exactly clear what. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It by Samuel Moyn. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 288 pages. Here is the first paragraph of Samuel Moyn’s book on gerontocracy: For two centuries, Democracy in America, published by the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville starting in 1835, has been the most famous book about the United States. It deserves to stay that way. But it might need an update. What do these sentences mean? Do they mean anything? Of course, I get the joke—or what is…Open
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Trump heads to Walter Reed for third checkup of second term
Trump, who is the older person to assume the presidency, turns 80 next month. He has said he's in excellent health.
NYTIMES (Alexis Soloski) - Older People Are Still Underrepresented on TV, but Shows Like ‘The Boroughs’ Are Helping
While older people are still underrepresented on TV, the characters that are there have become richer and more multidimensional.
AMERICANTHINKER - The Democrats’ increasingly frantic—and ageist—plans to maintain power
In Virginia, they seriously floated the idea of wiping out anyone over 53 from their Supreme Court, and in California, they’ve got a “break the glass” plan.
AXIOS (Emily Peck) - American CEOs are getting older
Data: BoardEx via "Aging at the very top," published by NBER ; Note: Sample includes 50,510 CEOs in U.S.; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios It's not just Congress — the corner office is graying, too, with the average American CEO now 61, up from around 51 two decades ago, a new working paper finds. Why it matters: It's a mixed bag: Older leaders tend to manage businesses that grow more slowly and are less likely to radically innovate, the study finds, in line with prior research. But they also appear to be better at managing companies through more uncertain economic times. By the numbers: The researchers looked at a database of more than 50,000 leaders. They found that the tendency to hire older leaders is more predominant among smaller,…