Trump is the most powerful man in the world. Surely, if leadership means anything meaningful, it means that it is up to him to set the better example.
He appears to see himself as the bully-in-chief, and it enrages him that he can't get away with pushing the press around, as he is accustomed to doing with his servants and flunkies, or the sycophants he is surrounding himself with at the White House. No other president has gotten away with it, and neither will he I don't believe.
Many people respond really well to powerful bullies...they like to see a strongman who really gives it to people who are less powerful. It fills some void in their miserable, mediocre lives, I guess.
The rallies at Nuremburg drew huge crowds who cheered their fuehrer deliriously as he would incite them against those rotten juden, who he told them were responsible for all the ills of Germany. I would like to think that I would not have been one of the crowd, but what do we really know about each other and what we are capable of? Sometimes, just looking the other way is enough to let a guy like the Don get away with whatever he is planning to get away with in his fetid cesspool of a mind.
I am willing to wait until tomorrow night to see what the Don has planned for his next step. Let's see If he still has the reporters who are forced to cover his events herded into a cage. These are just people who are made to be there to do their jobs, the working people the Don professes to care so much about. Let's see if he incites the crowd against them, as he routinely did at his campaign rallies across the Fatherland.
I think I know the answer, but I am willing to give your hero 24 more hours. I will say, that if Trump stays true to form, then I hope that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and all the rest of his/your whipping boys give it to him twice as hard every time he bends over.