Mike Barnicle: Americans No Longer See the Trump Presidency as Legitimate

BARNICLE: "You can make a strong case that the effort to delegitimize the presidency began during the Clinton presidency and it's continued through the Bush presidency, the Obama presidency. But this presidency, you can make a case, I think, for one additional step. In addition to delegitimizing the presidency among political people, largely that occurred, now the delegitimization of the presidency is taking hold within the country, within ordinary people looking at the presidency, a position they once revered and held on a higher pedestal. Now it's like, 'Trump is president? Really?'"