Trump Insiders Privately Confess Truth About His Aging

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images President Donald Trump is rapidly turning into a cranky old man, according to White House insiders.

Issues are mounting for the 80-year-old.

His hand-picked Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, raised the benchmark interest rate, despite Trump’s demands for rates of 1 percent or lower, while the Supreme Court blocked the president’s attempt to impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots, and a federal judge again barred the Kennedy Center from putting his name on the building.

Meanwhile, Florida Republican Rep.

María Elvira Salazar turned on him and warned that Trump’s immigration enforcement has gone “too far,” saying Hispanic voters who helped elect him “feel betrayed,” while gasoline has climbed to about $4.48 a gallon, roughly $1.24 higher than a year ago, and diesel has hit a record high amid the energy squeeze.

All of this comes as the midterms are less than 43 days away.

Some advisers say Trump can still be in a good mood, according to Axios .

However, others describe a tendency to grow irate quickly.

They also say that Trump is beginning to look and act like an octogenarian.

In July, Trump’s aides described him as even more “erratic” than usual, according to The New York Times.

His struggle to find a “face-saving” exit from the Iran conflict has reportedly left him increasingly frustrated and, in turn, more prone to abruptly switching up his positions.

In August, aides admitted that their boss had little interest in traveling across the country to prop up weak GOP candidates for the midterms, according to CNN .

In early September, Trump hosted an unprecedented midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, expecting candidates to come to him.

At the end of the last month, White House insiders told The Wall Street Journal that Trump is more interested in his own legacy than in improving the economy or ending his war with Iran.