Trump’s return to questioning the president’s legitimacy comes as his campaign reels from the publication of a 2005 video in which he bragged about sexual assault and an avalanche of allegations over the past week from women who say Trump sexually assaulted them. | AP Photo Trump air-quotes Obama's presidency

BANGOR, MAINE — Donald Trump appeared to question the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency on Saturday, referring to him at a rally as the “quote ‘president.'’'

“And she wants 550 percent more coming from Syria than the thousands and thousands that our president, quote ‘president,’ has coming in,” Trump said in attacking Hillary Clinton’s position on refugees during a rally at the Cross Insurance Center.


Trump’s return to questioning the president’s legitimacy comes as his campaign reels from the publication of a 2005 video in which he bragged about sexual assault and an avalanche of allegations over the past week from women who say Trump sexually assaulted them. In recent days, Trump’s rhetoric has grown more extreme as he has begun claiming he is the target of a vast globalist conspiracy and that the presidential election is “rigged” against him.

Last month, after years of peddling the false conspiracy theory that Obama was born outside of the United States and ineligible to be president, Trump held a press conference in Washington to concede that Obama was in fact born in Hawaii.