Former Tagesthemen spokesman Ulrich Wickert does not consider the old age of US President-elect Joseph Biden Jr. (78) a problem. “This Mr. Trump, who didn’t work all the time in his office, but watched a lot of television and played golf, is only two or three years younger,” says Wickert, who, like Biden, was born in 1942, in the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. “We had a very old Chancellor in Adenauer. Mitterrand in France was old and sick and still ruled. The Queen in England is over 90. So, I think it’s wrong to make age the dominant theme.”
after the end of the presidency: Ivanka wants to live in Trump’s golf club
After the end of President Trump’s tenure, his daughter Ivanka Trump, who is also an adviser to the President, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner are planning a quick exit from the US capital. According to the New York Times, the majority of the Trump family is expected to return to Manhattan when his presidency ends on January 20th. Ivanka and Jared, however, are already making preparations to expand their country house on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in order to live there. The president’s daughter seems to be putting her political ambitions on hold for the time being.
Cooperation in sight: Fauci confirms that he is talking to Biden employees
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, has not yet personally contacted President-elect Joe Biden, but he has spoken to his staff, the leading US immunologist told TV broadcaster ABC. So far it was about “nothing essential in the sense of plans”, but about establishing contact first. Now that the transition to Biden was underway, concrete plans would be discussed “very soon”.