"- MSNBC gritted it's teeth and played the whole thing,"

And Lawrence O'Donnell spent the first part of his show last night taking all networks to task for blindly covering the thing, and particularly hard on the *journalists* for asking stupid and irrelevant questions.
Since this thing was held at Mar-A-Lago, we don't know who got to ask questions or what the criteria were for being allowed in!
Trump's adventures are being treated as like a huge traffic pile up that they can't resist gawking at, if only to marvel at how many lies he told.