Media

If they just stopped covering him, he'd get the message immediately. He thrives on their attention: good or bad, it's all the same to him. When the press caught on that any appearance he made as POTUS was just an excuse to have a "rally," the majority of the press just stopped covering them. Now he has to honestly call his appearances "rallies," instead of trying to pass them off as "press conferences," as he did at first. His only real interaction with the press is when he's standing in front of a helicopter, about to go golfing somewhere, and reporters have to shout over the rotor noise.