‘You Have Nary Aged a Day,’ Vietnamese Leader Tells Biden
- Trong, 79, welcomes US president on first visit to Hanoi
- Polls show 80-year-old Biden’s age is liability in campaign
Joe Biden attends a welcoming ceremony with Nguyen Phu Trong at the Presidential Palace on Sept. 10.
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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While polls show Joe Biden besieged by questions about his age at home, his trip Sunday to Vietnam yielded at least one person unconcerned by the US president’s age: Vietnamese General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
“You have nary aged a day and I would say you look even better than before,“ Trọng told Biden as the men met at Communist Party headquarters in Hanoi. “Every feature of you, Mr. President, is very much complimentary of your image.”