Obama is a tail end boomer (‘61)

GenX starts ‘65

https://guides.loc.gov/consumer-research/market-segments/gen...

And then to the silent generation.

And all we know now is that it won’t go back to gen x or later for at least another four years.

Birth years of last 5 presidents: 1946, 1946, 1961, 1946, 1942. And, assuming no one drops out and they both survive to election day, 1942 or 1946 will be the next one.

Obama, being born in 1961, is on the edge of Boomers and Gen X, since generational boundaries are always a little poorly defined. He was 47 years old when elected to his first term in 2008, so we definitely think of him as a "young president." Plus, he was only a US senator for 3 years before winning the presidency. Bill Clinton, a definite boomer, was 46 when he was elected in 1992.

Amusingly, "the baby boom" used to be counted from 1946 to 1965. I believe the largest annual cohort was born in 1960 or 1961.

Looks like "Gen X" has subsumed what used to be late baby boom.

Trump is technically Silent Generation (edit: Nope, im wrong, he's a boomer), but I feel like he's very much a "Gen-X" president in how he sort of encapsulates that generations id. He rose to prominence in public consciousness during Gen-X's formative years. His TV career likewise took off as Gen-X grew as a share of the adult TV viewing audience, with his shows doing well in that demographic. And finally, during the 2016 and 2020 election his support was extremely strong with them in 2016 and 2020[1], tracking closer 65+ voters than Millennials or Zoomers. Romney did not enjoy the same support from Xers in 2012[2]. Long story short, Trump has tapped into Gen-X in a way even Gen-X politicians have been unable to.

[1] https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2016 https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2020

[2] https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2012

Trump (1946) is 9 years older than the average boomer (1946—1964.)

Biden (1942) isn't even boomer anymore, he's Silent Generation (1928—1945)