Trump trumps the press once again. Chopper pressers now the norm, makes Trump look like the genius he claims to be.

So Trump gets to ditch having to deal with loathsome obnoxious fools like April Ryan and Jimmy-Boy Acosta, and avoid allowing the press to sue him and involve the courts in the question of who gets a pass to ask questions.  Sounds like a genius move to me.

Plus, although he allows the press corps very frequent access to directly question him (very unlike Obama), it's now on his terms.  He gets to stroll out of the White House, now implied to be off limits to scum and villainy like the press corps, and pause on his way to board a powerful flying machine prepared to zip him away into the blue on some important mission, past a baying pack of wanna be journalists, who frequently seem to just want to argue with him as opposed to ask respectful and intelligent questions.  They have been expelled from their previous lair in the White House, and are now outsiders, worth only a pause in the President's important schedule.  

It's all in the presentation. No wonder they're mad.  They've been upstaged once again by the master.

According to CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps detailed records of the presidency, Trump has stopped to answer reporter questions -- both departing or arriving to the White House on Marine One and on the tarmac before or after riding Airforce One -- more than 80 times. He said he found only three instances when former President Barack Obama similarly spoke to reporters in transit and, during such times, he used a podium.

While several reporters interviewed by Politico said they appreciated the frequent access, they believed the set-up on the lawn purposefully depicts media as unruly, unkempt and professional. Jiang described how she often has to do “a lot of gymnastics” and duck under tripods and over equipment to get close enough. The noise of the chopper also makes their questions inaudible on broadcasts, reporters said. 

“There’s no question that it works to his advantage that we look unruly and disorderly,” veteran New York Times White House reporter Peter Baker told Politico. “It’s not like standing at a podium in the East Room or the briefing room, where you can have a civilized calling on people who raise their hands.”

Yeah, but come on, it's you who make yourselves look unruly.  If your networks hadn't sent hacks in to the press briefings who only seemed to want to attack and complain, if you hadn't decided to go to court to try to control access, if you had behaved like the professionals you say you are, you'd still be in the White House having a chat with the President's official spokesman.

You've made your bed, now enjoy it.  Be thankful Trump doesn't do an "Obama" and just not have a press conference at all for months and months.  Or lock you in a closet. Or rope you off like animals.