Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️

So:

MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire told "Morning Joe" that the 80-year-old president seemed confused Thursday that the press pool wasn't on the premises despite ordering crews from MS NOW, CNN and Politico banned from the White House, and two reporters from CNN and another from MS NOW were turned away from the state dinner arrivals despite a judge ordering their reinstatement.

"You know, a couple days ago when we had said that banning media outlets would only hurt the president, I mean, here's a perfect example of it," host Joe Scarborough said. "You had some hero shots that he could have had coming out of the White House – video, great video, you know, yeah, state dinners, red carpet. Yeah, but it just hasn't happened, and it hasn't happened because, well, he banned the media."

Lemire offered additional insight based on his sources at the White House.

"His impulsive decision a few days before not consulting with aides to ban three media outlets," Lemire said, and he agreed with Scarborough's assertion that aides disagreed with that move. "Right, no, because they understand that, first of all, he needs the media like he needs oxygen, like, so he would be the one to miss it. In fact, even yesterday I am told he was asking aides, 'Where are the cameras,' because there was no pool camera, and here's why."

"Just to refresh your memory, so yesterday we woke up to the news that the judge had ruled that CNN, MS NOW and Politico should have access restored to the White House, and it took a few hours for that to happen," Lemire added.

A) Trump is losing the thread in real time. He’s giving orders, and then forgets he’s given them.

B) Trump’s staff is doing what they want, without direction from Trump.

These are not mutually exclusive conclusions.