The Donald has ALWAYS engaged the press, no doubt about it. Just another tool in his charm arsenal, and one he uses much more to his advantage than the other way around.
Grudgingly, perhaps, but down deep, most of the press corps sort of ADMIRES The Donald. If they could have burned him any time in the past, they have not done it to any significant degree.
Also, the media knows the kind of torment they would be in for if they DID get aggressive with The Donald.
Not only the Teflon Don, but with a pretty good undergirding of cold-rolled, case-hardened, nickel-plated, chromium-vanadium-tungsten-molybdenum alloy steel armor plate.
Only The Donald will be able to do damage to The Donald.
Lo king the Demoine paper out of the picnic/speach sent a message to them. R E S P E C T Trump demands more than a little
Puh-leeeeeze!!! Trump IS an animal of the media -- maybe in a positive all-American productive way, but he is just the same a media animal with ZERO political compass.
The press probably loves him for the same reasons he loves the press, selling.