He rightly doesn’t trust “journalists” — with very few exceptions — as a class, but he’s shrewd and savvy to reward and compliment journalists and networks when they do play it fair. It’s called incentivizing. Trump is a genius at this.
“Trump is a genius at this.”
Just because he made a few billion dollars, people think he has something on the ball. Hell, I could make a few billion dollars too, if I wanted to.