Donald Trump is playing the Liberal Media for chumps and winning, and the Liberal Media is so far disconnected from reality, so disconnected from everyday Americans, they can't see the obvious.
Everyone with a brain knew the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was setting Donald up for a bloodbath of insults. It was going to be an all out assault, trying to take him down by any means necessary. This wasn't going to be the pandering and fawning they did to Obama for 8 years. The long knives were being sharpened. Donald is a lot of things, but he isn't stupid. He knew exactly what he should do in this situation, and that is to not attend. But he took it a step further, and held a rally. Let's contrast the 2 (actually 3) events.
White House Correspondents’ Association dinner:
As Donald predicted it was nothing but a coordinated all out assault on not just him, but everyday Americans who elected him. Here you have a large group the Liberal Media and so called A-List celebrities patting each other on the back while they sit around in $10k suits, drinking champagne and eating caviar while they blast not just Trump, but everyone not in their little elitist group. The optics to anyone with 2 working brain cells to rub together was bad, but it gets worse. I could post tons of videos, but you've probably already read seen most of it. I think this short one from Huffington Post sums up just how clueless and self absorbed they are.
Not to be outdone, other "celebrities" used their own respective shows to not only attack trump, but to attack the whole country as nothing but racists.
Yeah, I don't blame you if you can't sit through the whole 9:25. I couldn't either. The point is, Trump knew this was coming and he was 100% correct. So what does he do? He holds a 100 Day rally in a stadium with everyday Americans, blasting everything I just stated. The optics are night and day. This video is worth a watch.
Trump is preaching to the choir, and not just to his supporters. The vast majority of Americans in general distrust the Liberal media.
According to a Gallup poll, only 32 percent of Americans actually trusted the media to report fairly and accurately. This poll showed that at the time, Republicans had a measly 14 percent trust in the media.
I don't like every single thing Trump has done so far, but the disconnect between the completely crooked Liberal Media + Hollywood Elites and every day people could not be more apparent. Trump is playing his hand perfectly here.