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Rachel Maddow: Donald Trump �Apparently Thinks He�s Still President�


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On MSNBC�s The Rachel Maddow Show Thursday, host Rachel Maddow raised an intriguing question: does Donald Trump think he�s still the president? Maddow noted that Trump�s lawyers�preparing to defend him in his second impeachment trial next week� �bend over backwards to describe him in this very specific way...the 45th President of the United States.�

�It is accurate to call him the 45th president,� Maddow said. �But it�s just
as accurate to call him the former president. Apparently, though, that is something that can never be said�at least, not in front of him.�

Maddow noted that Trump�s spokesperson, in an interview with Newsmax, said �I do not expect the 45th president to be in Washington next week,� and recent letters released by Mr. Trump�s spokespeople include the presidential seal
and Mr. Trump�s signature over the words �President Donald J. Trump.�
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And in his announcement of new lawyers for the impeachment trial, Trump�s
news release exclusively�and repeatedly�uses the phrase �the 45th President�
to describe the former president:



�This is worth noticing,� Maddow said, because �Mr. Trump really does appear
to be insisting on this, and that could get very weird very quickly.� Maddow dissected Trump�s letter, observing that the usage of �the 45th President� in the letter�and in the legal team�s legal response to the impeachment�appears �even when it tortures the grammar and makes everything impossible to read...because they can never call him the former president of the United States.�

�I think it is possible and I think we should start getting our heads around the prospect that Donald Trump doesn�t think of himself as the former president. He is not allowing anybody around him to use that phrase about
him.� Then, whispering, Maddow asks: �does that mean he thinks he�s still president?�

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