[goldstategop]

Trump wasn’t the one who was rude and belligerent at the presser.

That was the feral pack of thugs called the DNC organ posing as a free press.

These people aren’t nice. The contempt is mutual. Who cares?

[Verginius Rufus]

During Democratic administrations, the press are a bunch of lapdogs. For Republican Presidents, it's Daniel in the lions' den.

Jim Acosta is no Helen Thomas. Helen Thomas may have been rude and unpleasant too, but she was something of a national treasure--the only journalist to have attended press conferences for every President from George Washington to George W. Bush. (Maybe she missed William Henry Harrison--he may not have held any during his short time in office.)

[cymbeline]

“These people aren’t nice. The contempt is mutual”

Both the media and Trump want the press conferences to be entertaining. Emotion is essential. Being “not nice” is essential. To some extent we in the audience are being played.