Donald Trump is already planning a celebration for his acquittal, even though the the trial isn’t over and the question of whether witnesses will be called remains unanswered.

White House aides have been discussing with the president potentially addressing the nation from the Oval Office to mark his presumed acquittal by the Senate, three senior administration officials told Politico.

“The president is giving a lot of thought to where he goes when he is acquitted and vindicated,” one senior administration official said. “This isn’t a one-and-done moment.”

“This will be a sustained exit from a long dreary impeachment process and a great reset to 2020 — not just the 2020 reelection but the 2020 domestic and international arena,” the official continued.

Trump is expected to be acquitted in the Republican-majority Senate after the Democrat-controlled House voted in favor of impeaching and moving the proceedings to the upper chamber.

White House aides say that while the president has not yet landed on a specific plan to mark his acquittal, he is expected to tout that he was able to beat the Democratic ploy of impeachment.

Taking a victory lap after acquittal from impeachment is not a new thing.

Bill Clinton, after he was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial in the 1990s, took two victory laps – which the Trump White House is very aware of as it prepares the steps after the impeachment proceedings conclude.

After the House vote to only move forward with two articles of impeachment instead of four, Clinton appeared in the Rose Garden alongside Democratic lawmakers, his wife Hillary and Vice President Al Gore to celebrate beating the perjury and abuse of power charges.

He also made an appearance after the Senate voted in February 1999 to acquit and not remove Clinton from office.

He again stood at a podium in the Rose Garden, this time alone, and apologized for the “great burden” impeachment placed on Congress and the American people.

I think it’s fair to say that Trump won’t be apologizing for anything, since he’s incapable of thinking about anyone besides himself.

Trump is also a fan of victory laps, as exhibited by his campaign rallies – which more times than not morph into a celebration of his 2016 win and presidency thus far.

He also held a victory lap-style event in the Rose Garden in March 2017 when the House voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, an initiative which ultimately died in the Senate.

Although the Senate wanted to make the impeachment trial speedy without calling any additional witnesses, new information revealed by a New York Times report Sunday may have swayed some senators to rethink thin decision.

The report outlined details discovered in a leaked manuscript of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s upcoming book.

Bolton says in the book, set for release in mid-March, that he had a conversation with Trump where the president made a direct link to the frozen military aid to Ukraine and it launching public investigations to the Bidens.

This fact may have changed senators minds on hearing from additional witnesses who did not testify in the House inquiry, but it still hasn’t proved to have swayed enough Republicans to vote in favor of removing the president.

White House aides are hoping to use Trump’s State of the Union address on February 4, to lay out his agenda for the rest of the year and preview a potential second term and redirect the conversation to other events.