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Twenty-Two: What Does Donald Trump Have to Add to This Conversation? Numbers come and go. Some are lucky, some are unlucky, and some somehow end up following people around for years. The number 22 is one of those numbers. Recently, some observers have noticed that Donald Trump seems to say the number 22 surprisingly often during speeches and interviews. Whether that's a coincidence, habit, or some subconscious preference is anyone's guess. Politicians repeat all kinds of numbers. Poll numbers. Budget numbers. Crowd numbers . But if 22 keeps showing up, it raises an interesting question: what exactly does he have to add to the long and strange cultural history of 22? For some people, 22 isn't just a number. It's their number. I spent several years working in a cubicle with the number 22. My extension was 22. Every day, there it was, staring back at me from office paperwork, phone messages, and desk labels. When you see a number often enoug...