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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Kenneth Axl

Trump Turns 80 Amid White House Panic; Spokesman Blasts Birthday Leaker as a 'Lying Sack of S---'

Trump Turns 80 Amid White House Panic; Spokesman Blasts Birthday Leaker as a ‘Lying Sack of S---’ (Credit: Gage Skidmore/WikiMedia Commons)

Donald Trump will turn 80 at the White House on Sunday, but according to one of his best‑known biographers there is 'no discussion' allowed about the milestone birthday inside his political circle, with the president instead pushing staff to focus publicly on America's upcoming 250th anniversary.

The news came after writer Michael Wolff, whose books on Trump have long enraged the president's allies, told The Daily Beast's Inside Trump's Head podcast that aides have tried to devise a message around Trump's age, acutely aware of how debates over Joe Biden's mental sharpness dominated the last campaign.

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