Trump ‘utterly’ defies age as he turns 80: ‘I don’t know where he gets the energy’

President Donald Trump on Sunday will become the second octogenarian to occupy the White House – and his admirers told The Post he still has plenty of spring in his step.

“At least to date, he has seemed to utterly defy age,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), 55, who ran against Trump for president a decade ago.

“I don’t know where he gets the energy that he displays, but he is up early in the morning and late at night,” he added.

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President Trump, who turns 80 Sunday, seems to “utterly defy age,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).Getty Images

In a chamber where Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, 92, is the senior-most Republican and third in line to the presidency, Republicans who work closely with Trump insisted age is nothing but a number.

“He calls me at sometimes 2 o’clock in the morning,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.).

The 74-year-old lawmaker quickly added: “I mean, just because you’re 80 doesn’t mean you’re falling apart. For some people it does — but other people are fine.”

“Age is relative,” agreed former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.), 82, who served three terms in the Senate – including two years alongside Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-Miss.), who retired from the chamber at 100.

“I knew people who were senile at 40, and I knew people in their 70s that were contributing members of the Congress. It depends on the individual, and you have to judge an individual not by the chronological age, but by their ability, and some are great at 80, and some are not so great at 40.”

And he’s not slowing down, said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 82, a longtime Trump advisor who drew some life advice from the president. “President Trump, in the Kissinger tradition, has gained in stamina as he has gotten older. He is so interested in the wide range of things he is achieving that he has no time to get older,” he said.

“His life invigorates him and fits what we now know about longevity. If you have a big goal, like what you are doing and have friends you live longer, healthier, and with more energy. All that fits President Trump.”

Trump keeps a vigorous schedule, regularly fielding questions from reporters during marathon press events and posting on Truth Social about war and peace during odd hours.

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Trump continues to hold extended Oval Office sessions and fire off posts at odd hours.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

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Sen. John Kennedy said the president sometimes calls him in the middle of the night.Getty Images

“If there’s one thing I know about President Trump, it’s that nothing slows him down,” said Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), the former White House physician who tended to Trump after Thomas Crooks shot at him in Butler, Pennsylvania and wounded his right ear.

The president plans to spend his birthday at a UFC fight organized on the South Lawn of the White House before jetting to France for the annual G7 meeting.

Eldest son Donald Trump, Jr. and his new wife Bettina, son Eric and wife Lara Trump, daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner all were set to join him for the bouts.

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Gotta hand it to him: “”I don’t know where he gets the energy that he displays,” said Cruz, who battled Trump in the 2016 primaries along with now Secretary of State Marco Rubio.REUTERS

Democrats are relishing the opportunity, for a change, to poke at the age of the other party’s standard bearer.

Former White House spokesman Andrew Bates questioned Trump’s memory regarding inflation, despite Bates’ ex-boss, former President Joe Biden, delivering a 2024 debate performance so bad his wife thought he was having a stroke.

“But you have to give it to him that a White House ballroom is the ultimate senior arts and crafts project,” he quipped.

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Trump is celebrating his birthday by viewing UFC fights at an octagon constructed on White House grounds.REUTERS

Trump has been fatalistic when speaking after numerous attempts on his life.

“I wasn’t worried. I understand life. We live in a crazy world,” he said after Cole Thomas Allen allegedly opened fire at the White House Correspondents Dinner in April. “It’s not a number I like, but I’m here nevertheless,” he said in a video posted Thursday by Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.

But if he frets about aging, he can turn to White House Physician Dr. Sean Barbabella’s memo after his latest visit to Walter Reed Medical Center.

It proclaimed him to be in “excellent health” and estimated his cardiac age as “approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age.”

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NYPD will be out ‘in full force’ to bust sex trafficking during FIFA World Cup: officials

 The NYPD will tackle sex trafficking “in full force” during the World Cup, officials told The Post this week.

“We prepare for volume and the probability that there will be more trafficked victims passing through our city, and so we pay a special attention to some of our known corridors, things like bus terminals and certain train hubs,” said Inspector Gary Marcus, commanding officer of the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit. 

Marcus was among the NYPD officials who sat down with the The Post Friday, a day after the first match of the massive 104-game tournament taking place around North America, including eight at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, until the final on July 19.

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Cops will be out looking for prostitution in areas where it’s known to exist during the tournament.For New York Post

NYPD teams also plan to carefully monitor notorious hot spots for commercial sex, such as Penn Track in East New York, Brooklyn, and Roosevelt Avenue in Corona and Jackson Heights, Queens, he said. 

He also mentioned Penn Station and other “large terminals.”

The NYPD has also been working with people who may come into contact with trafficking, like employees in the hospitality industry and at hospitals.

“It does not look like what you would expect to see in the movies,” Marcus said. “So we prepare them for what those indicators might be, and what to do when you encounter a potential victim.”

Trafficking victims might include people who are “not dressed appropriately for the weather, or they have untreated injuries, or they look to someone else when they have to answer very basic questions,” he said.

Kathleen Baer, the NYPD’s assistant commissioner for Gender-Based Violence Policy and Planning, works with aid agencies in the city to make sure there’s help for anyone who’s being trafficked — and with local prosecutors to build a case against the criminals responsible, she said. 

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The NYPD and women’s advocacy groups will offer help to women who are the victims of sex trafficking.For the New York Post

“We’ve seen throughout history and it will be no different with FIFA, when you have a large influx of people, the demand rises,” said Baer, who led anti-trafficking efforts when she was a prosecutor at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.  

“We’re going to be out there in full force conducting these operations and ensuring that we have the backup support from our advocates and our district attorneys where cases do come up.”

Trafficking victims “run the gamut,” she said.

“So we have girls that are homegrown in Brooklyn,” she said.

“We see people being brought here from South America, and then they end up in a trafficking situation,” she continued. “Their documents are taken from them, they don’t have money, they don’t have a way to survive.”

The cases are difficult because victims are scared of their handlers or don’t want to get them in trouble.

Making things even more difficult, the women are often reluctant to talk to cops, she said.

“So, when we go and we try to conduct one of these rescues, they’re often very mistrustful of law enforcement,” she said. 

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Groups trying to offer the women help face challenges because the women might be afraid to anger their handlers.J.C. Rice

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The NYPD has been working with hospitality and hospital employees to help them identify victims of sex trafficking and notify the NYPD.J.C. Rice

She recalled cases with girls as young as 11 being trafficked and stressed the need for tips from the public.

“But we have to get the tips and be able to identify it,” she said.

“That one phone call can really save a life,” Marcus added.

Tips can be called into the NYPD human trafficking hotline at 646-610-7272 or NYPD Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish.

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