the Big Dogs didn't come. I mean it's just a rhetorical conversation, but he doesn't get power in that room without the press power that attends. SHS gets the warm up job as Joker, and he gets the Emperor With No Clothes On gig.
The ones who ask the nice questions, seldom make any news at all. Boring...probably for him too. I'm not saying no press...just the opposite...just not in that "privileged setting" ... another institution he is making a farce out of.
That is only one small event in the life of The Press...and it's a Sh$$ Show. That or on the lawn, where he loves to wax idiotic...we don't need to see a lying president make fun of us...knowing he is lying and padding along after him. We need to hear the lies...that's what keeps the press relevant. And frankly, they are not doing their job. 6 lies a day? Where are they? What are they? It gets reported as fact...and he knows it. And he laughs at us. That is the Fake News. His News. They fear losing their jobs...right now...today.
What if someone asked him about the multiple hundreds of millions of dollars his family spends of our money cavorting all over the globe? Or his Foundation that laundered money for his campaign and that lawsuit? Now, that would be a perfect question for a reporter to ask...and on the part of the American taxpayer, to demand an answer for. We've been taken for fools...not just his Base Base, but, yes, The Press and the nation. They are now "allowed" to ask ... and hear ... only what he likes.
He's already declared war on the press...says he won't show up. Well..........I rest my case.
(Maybe he'll write the questions and hand them out, like he's writing Mueller's answers.)