Trump Admits Being POTUS Is Hard, Flubs the Civil War: A Closer Look | Rachel Maddow

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🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump's latest revelations, including that he doesn't really know why the Civil War happened. (0:19) Next, Rachel Maddow talks to Seth about the impact the Trump administration has had on the news cycle and recalls an unrecorded conversation with Donald Trump during Republican primaries. She breaks down the benefits and drawbacks to Donald Trump not knowing how policy and government work and who the Democratic Party needs to follow to future victory. (11:11) LATE NIGHT ON SOCIAL Rate the Late Night Podcast on iTunes: itunes.com/LateNightSeth Subscribe to Late Night on YouTube: youtube.com/LateNightSeth Follow Late Night on Twitter: twitter.com/LateNightSeth Like Late Night on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LateNightSeth Find Late Night on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/LateNightSeth Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/ Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers weeknights 12:35/11:35c on NBC. (Photo: Lloyd Bishop/©NBC) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'm Sydney Battle and I'm Matt Bellasai and we're the host of Wondries new podcast Disantel
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0:28.2	Each week the host will share a parenting story that'll have you laughing and thinking,
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0:39.8	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night
0:46.2	with Seth Meyers.
0:47.2	Today, Seth takes a closer look at President Trump's remarks about the Civil War.
0:51.8	He chats with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the current state of politics.
0:56.0	Now let's get to the show.
0:57.4	The last few days of Donald Trump's presidency have been very revealing he has, among other
1:04.0	things, futed with the press, admitted that being president is harder than he thought,
1:08.0	praised authoritarian rulers and made bizarre comments about the Civil War.
1:12.1	For more on this, it's time for a closer look.
1:18.2	As you may recall, Trump's positions on most issues during the campaign weren't all
1:22.5	that clear, but there was one thing he was very clear about, and that was that being president
1:27.5	would be easy.
1:28.5	We're going to make America great again.
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