I feel for the guy!

Consider... he's somehow 'risen to the top' of a very, very exclusive club of Journalism's operatives, the White House Press Corps.  You either have to be VERY good looking to get there before you're 40, or very, very tenacious.  Somehow though, he's been given to believe that his position is noble and sanctioned in the public sense.  

This president has been literally harried for both his run-up to office and his entire tenure.  The press construes almost every turn-of-phrase with implicit suspicion of darker purpose or outright corruption.  Nothing goes unsullied. 

So, CNN (in particular, but also others) have been somewhat unsubtly sidelined during Q&A.  HIS career hinges on being able to eruct a pithy and no-win-by-answering question or two every few days.  Of COURSE he "can't take it". Those daily barbs and snarks are going unasked.  Unanswered.  Unstumbled. 

So yah, I feel for the guy.
The pain is temporary, dude.  
7 more years!