Call it confidence or call it presumptuousness, it's increasingly a part of the talking points.

“The White House and the media are going to share joint custody of this nation for eight years,” Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway said Monday night on Fox News's “Hannity.” “And we ought to figure out how to co-parent.”

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The day before, during a White House ceremony swearing in his new aides, Trump promised that “we are going to do some great things over the next eight years.” And then he repeated, for good measure: “Eight years.”

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On Friday, at a pre-inaugural press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer slipped in an “eight years” while urging the press to have patience when it comes to him disclosing what comes next.

“I would just tell you for the next eight years, stand by.” Spicer said.

Going back just a bit further, at the end of his Jan. 11 news conference, Trump mentioned “eight years” again when discussing his children running his business.

“But these papers are all just a piece of the many, many companies that are being put into trust to be run by my two sons that I hope, at the end of eight years, I'll come back and say, 'Oh, you did a good job.' Otherwise, if they do a bad job, I'll say, 'You're fired,'" Trump said.

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The ever-confident Trump, of course, has spoken about what he might do in two full terms as president before. But back in December when he was defending his decision to shun regular intelligence briefings, he was a little more circumspect.

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“I don't have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years — but eight years. I don't need that,” Trump said in a Dec. 11 interview with Fox News's Chris Wallace.

It's worth mentioning here just how tough a proposition Trump's reelection would appear, even at this early juncture. He lost the popular vote, of course, and won by less than 1 percentage point in the three states that put him over the top: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. His favorable and approval ratings are measuring between the high-30s and the mid-40s, his average favorable rating never crested 45 percent during his entire campaign. He's also made little effort to reach out to the other side or tone down the rhetoric and feuding that, despite his win, led to serious concerns among voters about his temperament and ability to be an effective and steady president.