and says, “this is the exact same thing he did last time, why is the media reporting on it,”

They said “why is the media pretending this was new”, not “Why are they reporting on this”.

These are very different statements. You are suggesting they said the media shouldn’t bother reporting on it. What they actually said was that it should be pointed out that there are many repeats, and shouldn’t be treated as though its happening for the first time.

I think that is the root of the misunderstanding here.