By all accounts, Trump devoted much of his Connecticut rally last night to bashing the media. I’m not a Trump fan, but I do recognize a media lynch mob when I see one (no one needed fainting couches when Hillary, hyperbolically, called Trump the best recruiter for ISIS).
The problem for Trump is that he isn’t just selling the media their rope, he’s giving it away as fast as he can. He’s locked in a perverse symbiotic relationship with the press–the press self-evidently wants to destroy him and he’s glad to give it the material to work with.
I’m all in favor of deftly pushing back against the media, mocking it in clever ways, and by-passing it as much as possible, but to the extent Trump makes his campaign about complaining about the press, it will completely obscure his message and drive even more media obsession with his gaffes and how they are being covered. There is nothing that the press enjoys doing more than talking about itself and Trump has just given it license to do that even more, through, of course, the prism of its hostility to him and of his campaign’s (very real) struggles.
Trump--Media Is Clearly Biased Against Him, and Will Get More So