This effort by the Trump Ministry of Disinformation really is quite like the model FOX and the GOP has been exploiting for years. Although Trump and FOX both preach to the same choir, the distinct advantage Trump has over FOX is his ability to broadcast to a much wider audience but at the expense of it being a double edged sword, as it were.
Too bad though that his "campaign forever" game is at best keeping "the faithful, faithful" or at worst exposing just what is so wrong with his style of "leadership" if one could ever survive that leap of logic. He is not leading the nation by example as he well should, he is leading the nation by uplifting and promoting what is worst about us, what is fatally destructive about us, what is tragically divisive about us. In the long run, it simply won't work.
The more Trump tries to force his will, his dialogue, his dogma on the populace the more he will realize how futile it is to reach out and brutalize the nation into surrendering to his charming way of redefining where the nation should get their information about him when to get it from him is being constantly revised and sanitized by his gaggle of lawyers and apologists.
On the one hand, he has proven beyond doubt that he really is the chronic pathological liar in the most blatant way possible. On the other, when he is flatly called out on those obviously (and at this point we delve into the world of fakery that Trump has conjured in his defense of his fake "fake news" accusations) false statements that he makes, he turns it right back on his accusers by branding them as the dispensers of fake news of the obvious falsehoods he makes on a regular basis.
If this is his rather lame attempt at excusing himself from himself then well yeah, it works for the faithful who only want to hear what comes directly out of his mouth or from those sources that painfully attempts to justify and legitimize his scatologically infected dialogue, but it has the precise opposite effect on anyone else who possesses an ounce of common sense.
Trump is by his own words, convicting himself of what he is accusing the media of. That the media accurately reports what comes directly out of his mouth and what direct actions he takes that habitually backfires in his face is not the problem of the media, it's Trump's problem and by his dealing with this problem of his own making the way he has, it just compounds the problem for himself.
He really is his own worst enemy after all.