The bottom line is that Trump is about Trump. The reason he has failed to get ahead of Hillary ( the worst candidate the Democrats have run in my lifetime ) is that he thinks he can manipulate the media but is in fact easily trolled into the Clinton machine media traps.

Trump thinks he is smarter than everyone who has actually run a national campaign, refuses to build any kind of ground game (which is how Obama beat Romney in an election Romney should have won) and continues to self destruct.

Trump will lose in November in the biggest landslide since McGovern's loss. Why is the GOP establishment running in circles? Because Trump's incompetence now threatens the GOP hold on the Senate and House.