To understand Trump, just understand politics and basic human nature: He's telling the truth as it applies to his mentality only. You can tell he has a mentality that says, "Never give up, never lose, even if you're losing the fight, keep punching until you're knocked out." So every time he confronts the media, he just plays their game against them. They get to make up whatever questions they want that are intended to spin or frame things in the context of some sort of political agenda, therefore he answers those questions the same way. That's been politics since forever. The only thing that really makes it different is that we now have technology that allows it to be taken to this level.