This wasn't the case at all.
1. This all started with a lengthy interview ...
2. ... with the New York Times, of all media outlets! ...
3. ... which is a newspaper that has been working incessantly to undermine President Trump ever since he was nominated last year ...
4. ... and which President Trump repeatedly refers to as "the Failing @NYTimes" in his Twitter posts (including several times since the interview was published).
The whole thing sounds contrived from top to bottom to me. LOL.
It's at least....
Unusual.
Very Trumpian (is that a word?).