You gave it away at the end there. He does get challenged by the media occasionally, he gets weird and whiny about it, and it costs him nothing. The people inclined to support him sees this as being wronged by the lib-controlled media or him being an alpha.

Yeah I mean when has he sat for an interview with hard q’s versus being shouted random questions at a press conference You gotta let them be comfortable enough to ramble on after giving them the rope to hang themself (*mods - I mean figuratively not literally)