Rachel Maddow thinks Donald Trump doesn't really want to be president
Donald Trump is like a daily professional birthday present, Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Fallon agreed on Thursday's Tonight Show. Trump dumps news soundbites like manna from Heaven and practically writes his own jokes. But "do you think he wants to be president for real?" Fallon asked the MSNBC host.
"I can't imagine," Maddow said. "I can't imagine that he wants to be president. Look at what happens to people who become president. Like, Barack Obama is 40 years older than when he got sworn in seven years ago." And George W. Bush, she added, "went from, like, a charismatic frat boy to, like, a retired university president who's fallen on hard times."
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