Two of the reporters Trump has fixated on and privately tried to ban? @Acosta and @AprilDRyan. The latest inside Trump’s war w the media, w @PhilipRucker + @jdawsey1. https://t.co/jiBBhSpOLQ

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 27, 2018

“…In past instances, top advisers, including Sanders and former communications director Hope Hicks, would try to talk Trump out of taking action, according to officials with knowledge of the conversations. They argued that doing so would only give more attention to the questions he did not like and suggested that if he did not want to answer those questions, he should simply ignore them.”

It’s still hard to fathom the depth of Trump’s sheer stupidity about people.