Madden Mischief

That’s right, I’m announcing today that I’ll be throwing my Trump ’24 cap into the ring to become on November 6, 2040, the first President of the United States of America over 100 years old but change that “old” to “young.”  By then I’ll still be a sprightly 102, but I’ll serve just the one term it will take to get the probably once again Bidenized economy back on track, the right path—full steam upward just as President Trump is doing today.

Trump is the oldest, or perhaps the way he acts with such energy and alacrity, we should call him the youngest oldest person to be inaugurated as U.S. president, taking office at age 78 in January 2025. Joe Bien was and acted as the oldest president at the end of his term (82 years, 2 months).  Jimmy Carter holds the record for the longest-lived president, reaching age 100.  

In 2040 I pray I’ll still be ultra-alert, sharp as a tack, clear sighted and energetic enough to go full throttle as a super active leader who’ll prove to the world you can be in your hundreds and still be on your toes, just as resourceful as always, fully capable of taking charge, and proceeding with alacrity to victory over whatever challenges there are. 

When I’m elected on that momentous day, the First Lady will be my beautiful Brazilian wife, Rita de Cassia Pierotti-Madden, who’ll by then be a mere 78 years young.  That’s it.  We’re in it to win!  So, stay healthy everyone as we’ll be counting on your vote!   And please don’t just walk to the polls.  Run!

Think of that, I could become the first centenarian president of one of the youngest countries on this ever youthful, perpetually thriving and inspiring planet while we’re establishing new colonies throughout our country’s latest new frontier–space.

Can you imagine the respect America will garner worldwide having a 102-year-old President, especially in countries like China and throughout the Middle East where seniors have long been admired, respected and looked up to?  In places where old age has long been associated with masterful health and bountiful wisdom?   

It’s funny.  I just finished reading an exquisitely written novel by Mary Higgins Clark called “Mount Vernon Love Story” about another president, George Washington, whose wife Martha was fond of calling him her “old man,” which unlike today was meant back then as an endearing term, a compliment to an admirable and so lovable a husband, as George was to her.  But today that term is on a reverse course begrudgingly heading downhill in esteem and capability.  Being “old” today can mean you’re not as sharp or alert as you once were when you were young,

It’s best we retire that word “old” as it connotes more ineptitude and tiredness than endearment and respect especially on a presidential level.  How many years “young” sounds more fitting for that demanding office, so let’s give aging a whole new look, feel and sound.  So, when you tell someone you’re 90, they’ll more likely say “that’s all you are, just 90?  How about running to the store for me, sonny?”

But before I start running to stores or campaigning for that august office, I’ll wait until around the late 2030’s, meanwhile sticking to a healthy diet, walking a mile or two every day on the beach and doing my usual regimen of pushups plus churning out blogs showing my brain’s still an incubator of fresh ideas and topics to write about, such as this astounding announcement—my candidacy for president, which will make our current president look and feel like he’s still a young man and whether on or off the golf course he’ll only be 80.

Physically and especially mentally, Tom Madden is ageless, ever churning out ideas he likes to share in the countless blogs, books and articles he writes.  Madden started out as an enterprising newspaper reporter, first at his hometown paper, The Press in Atlantic City, NJ, then onto The Philadelphia Inquirer before venturing into PR, first at the TV networks, ABC and NBC before launching his own PR firm, TransMedia Group where his daughter Adrienne Mazzone is now president.