age limits – Rep. Maxine Waters said elected officials should be judged by performance, not age, during a TMZ grilling as questions swirled about President Trump’s and Biden’s ages.
Rep. Maxine Waters pushed back on the idea that Congress should impose age limits, arguing that voters should judge leaders based on what they do rather than how old they are, even as public debate about the ages of top U.S. figures continues to simmer.
The remarks came during a brief. on-the-street exchange filmed in Washington. D.C.. as Maxine Waters. 87. walked into the U.S.. Capitol on Thursday.. TMZ on-the-ground producer Jacob Wasserman asked whether lawmakers needed age limits. framing the question as a generational one. with some younger viewers viewing older politicians as “too old.”
Waters did not take the bait on the premise.. “I usually don’t do press conferences while I’m walking,” she said, before shifting the focus to evaluation.. “The way people should think about elected officials is, ‘What do they do?. What can you document?. What can you give them credit for?. What can you criticize them for?’ If you do what it takes to evaluate, then you can decide.”
When Wasserman pressed the point and emphasized the need to judge leaders on age versus performance, Waters’ response was direct: “Performance and effectiveness.”
The conversation then broadened from Congress to the White House. Wasserman asked Waters how people should think about age in the presidency, pointing to President Donald Trump, who is about to turn 80, and to earlier criticism surrounding President Joe Biden’s age.
Waters pivoted sharply into politics.. “Don’t have to ask me about Trump. ” she said. adding that she believes the president is doing damage to democratic institutions.. She said the president is “destroying our democracy,” making “unkept promises,” and “enriching himself and his family with cryptocurrency.”
Waters also accused Trump of lying to the public and criticized how she believes he handled discussions connected to Iran and U.S. financial services. She said he claimed he “didn’t have time to think about what is going on with financing and financial services in the United States of America.”
In her view, voters are already turning against him. “I think some people are having buyer’s remorse,” she said, arguing the president’s approach is “dangerous and divisive,” and that “in the final analysis” it will be the public deciding whether he should remain in power.
After that exchange, Wasserman returned to the original question: whether there should be an age limit to serve as president.. Waters said again that age should not be the yardstick.. “People should be evaluated and thought of in terms of what they do. ” she said. describing the criteria as effectiveness and the record of what leaders care about.
Wasserman then offered a hypothetical: if a “hundred-year-old fighter” wanted to serve, should they still be allowed in office. Waters concluded that the decision belongs to voters. “The people should evaluate who should be in office with their vote, and that’s it,” she said.
The clip ended there, with Wasserman thanking Waters before continuing on.
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she is literally 87 years old saying age doesnt matter lmaooo
I mean I get what shes saying but also like if someone cant even walk to their car without help maybe they shouldnt be running the whole country. performance is great but at some point your body just doesnt keep up and thats not an insult its just biology.
this is exactly what they want us arguing about while they raise our taxes and nobody is talking about that. I saw something last week about congress voting themselves another pay raise and nobody covered it at all. Waters has been in office since like the 80s and what has she actually done for her district, I looked it up once and the area she represents has been struggling for decades so performance is a funny word to use here. not saying age limits are the answer but maybe term limits are the real conversation and everyone keeps avoiding it because the people who would vote on term limits are the same ones who benefit from there being no term limits which is just crazy if you think about it.
wait so did they actually pass an age limit bill or not because the headline made it sound like something already happened