While Donald Trump Will Be the Last of the Boomers Elected to the White House, the Clash Between Gen X and Millennials Is Already Gearing Up for 2028.

Which generation will emerge from the fray in 2028?

All five living American presidents were present at Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, as well as Joe Biden, and Donald Trump, who had the distinction of having been the 45th President of the United States.

Joe Biden turned 82 at the end of November 2024. Donald Trump will be a few months older when he leaves the White House for the last time, in January 2029. This is probably one of those records that Donald Trump could have done without.

Is it nostalgia? A reflection of the electoral weight of senior citizens? The consequence of a locked political system? Since 1992 and the election of Bill Clinton, all American presidents have been born in the 40s, except Barack Obama. The latter is a dashing sixty-something who left the White House eight years ago and remains, by far, the youngest of these presidents.

Americans seem incapable of turning the page on the boomers, even if it means turning the White House into a retirement home and American democracy into a gerontocracy.