JOY REID (HOST): Which is true? Does Donald Trump seem to hate the media, or does he seem to sort of love and covet the media?
ERIC BOEHLERT: He love/hates. A lot of his tweets are based on what he's watching on cable television. He's obsessed with this. He's an incredibly insecure -- he wallows in this kind of defining insecurity. And if you're going to sit in the Oval Office, that's not a good trait to have. So, he can't take this criticism. The White House Correspondents Dinner, I kind of get the feeling like it's the frog in the boiling water. The press doesn't quite realize what's going on here, and they should not be having this kind of Tony dinner. This is an administration that pushes back on the press. This is an administration that's trying to destroy the fourth estate, and so Trump does it because he's injured. He's insulted, and so he lashes out. But it's not just the attacks on the press. Virtually every initiative that he's rolled out has been racked in lies to the press, the travel ban, the Yemen raid, the inauguration size, the size of the crowd. So this is a very dangerous combination, and the press needs to realize that we are in radical times. It's not the time to kind of sit down and have some jokes at a correspondents dinner.
