trip and the historic nature and super frajistic expy al doeshious of the trip, you could almost see trump sitting there writing it with him. he was certainly wanting to stroke donald trump s ego. he s wanted to do that from way back. think about his first press briefing was all about the crowd size. that s where he lowered the credibility bar and since then hasn t raised the credibility at all. during the trip itself, one interesting element from those of us who were on air force one or in the briefing rooms because we were in the fool a lot was to the extent which you saw rex tiller on, h.r. mcmaster, gary cohn, very senior officials who have policy portfolios not comes portfolios not just participating in the briefings but running them. off and on the record sometimes on background with a combination of other top officials. part of that it seemed to many of us there was a test to find out whether that would drives the coverage in a more positive