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87-Year-Old Maxine Waters Can't Tell You Whether 100 Is Too Old for Congress — But She Can Tell You Trump Is Bad

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was confronted with what should be the easiest question in American politics — is 100 years old too old to serve in Congress — and she treated it like a Navy SEAL was asking her to crack an encryption code. The 87-year-old California Democrat dodged, weaved, and eventually pivoted to her favorite subject: Orange Man Bad.

Because of course she did.

TMZ producer Jacob Wasserman caught up with Waters outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 14th, as she was walking in from a Working Families press conference. Wasserman asked what she'd say to younger Americans who think some of their leaders are simply too old to remain in power. Waters, who has been in Congress since 1991, responded with the kind of non-answer that would make a White House press secretary blush.

"I usually don't do press conferences while I'm walking, but let me just say that the way people should think about elected officials is, 'What do they do?'" Waters said. "What can you document? What can you give them credit for?"

Oh, that's rich. We're supposed to evaluate her based on what she's done. Alright, Maxine. Let's play that game.

When Wasserman pressed harder and asked the obvious follow-up — "So if you have a hundred-year-old fighter, they should still be in office?" — Waters refused to bite. Instead, she fell back on the oldest dodge in the Democratic playbook: let the voters decide.

"The people should evaluate who should be in office with their vote, and that's it," she declared.

That's technically true in the same way that saying "gravity exists" is technically an answer to "why did my roof collapse." Yes, voters decide. But the question wasn't about the constitutional process. The question was whether a centenarian belongs in the House chamber, and she couldn't muster the courage to say what every human being with a functioning brain stem already knows.

One hundred is too old. Period. End of discussion. Your great-grandmother shouldn't be setting tax policy.

But here's the beautiful part. While Waters couldn't bring herself to state that obvious fact, she had zero trouble pivoting straight into a Trump rant. "The President of the United States is destroying our democracy," Waters said. "He's made unkept promises. He is enriching himself and his family with cryptocurrency."

Isn't that something? Ask her a simple yes-or-no question about age and she short-circuits. Mention Trump and suddenly the woman's got a TED Talk loaded up and ready to go. President Trump is about to turn 80 himself, by the way, and you didn't see him struggling to answer basic questions from a TMZ reporter on a sidewalk.

The real issue here isn't just Maxine Waters. It's the entire gerontocracy that refuses to acknowledge what the rest of us can see with our own eyes. We watched the Biden saga play out in real time. We watched Dianne Feinstein get wheeled around the Senate like a prop in a Weekend at Bernie's sequel. And now we've got an 87-year-old congresswoman who can't concede that triple digits might be a reasonable cutoff.

Waters' standard for fitness is "performance and effectiveness." Fine. By that standard, her performance on Thursday was a masterclass in evasion, and her effectiveness at answering a straightforward question was exactly zero.

But hey — at least she remembered Trump's name. According to Louder with Crowder, which covered the exchange, the whole clip is a perfect snapshot of everything wrong with Washington: career politicians who'd rather attack their opponents than admit they might have an expiration date.

The voters will decide, Maxine says. She's right about that much. And we've been deciding — loudly — that the nursing home wing of Congress needs to close down for renovations.

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