Today is President Donald Trump's 71st birthday.
Inaugurated at age 70, he's one of the oldest presidents in U.S. history, elected to office after several decades spent as a real estate developer and television producer and having amassed a $3.5 billion fortune.
Here's who joins President Trump in the top five oldest presidents ever elected...
No. 5 - George H.W. Bush
He swept 40 states in his 1988 presidential campaign with his famous oath, "Read my lips: no new taxes." In the Gulf War, he sent U.S. troops to push Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait but didn't pursue him to Baghdad to minimize U.S. casualties and avoid becoming further enmeshed in the Middle East. He lost his reelection race to Bill Clinton in 1992.
No. 4 - James Buchanan
Though he is not the only president to be born in a log cabin, he is the only president to be born in Pennsylvania. He never married, though he was ridiculed for his extraordinarily friendly - perhaps even intimate - relationship with U.S. Sen. William R. King.
No. 3 - William Henry Harrison
But he didn't show any symptoms of illness until three weeks after the fact, and modern medical analysis points to the possibility that President Harrison died of septic shock as a result of typhoid fever. He is the first president to have died while in office.
No. 2 - Ronald Reagan
After beating incumbent President Jimmy Carter (who holds the record for longest life post-presidency) in a landslide victory, he implemented supply-side economic policies that became known as "Reaganomics." He also famously demanded that USSR General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down this wall." The 40th president died of pneumonia in 2004.
No. 1 - Donald Trump
His young presidency has thus far been marked by attempts to tighten border control, improve infrastructure, and reform healthcare. The 45th president is known for his ambitious "America First" policy and his status as a relative outsider to the political realm. Lately, the media and public alike have been enthralled with the fallout of his firing FBI Director James Comey. Today, Donald Trump turns 71.
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