Pretty much, in general other than the political sycophants who stick up for the presses bullshit or can turn a blind eye to it, stuff like that really probably did help Trump.
Yes there is a press pool. Yes they are entitled to follow him around on press worthy matters. Going to have a nice night out over some prime rib with your family is not fucking NEWS...it's stalkerazzi behavior which also should be seriously curbed or banned as harassing people doing random stuff in public is definitely NOT press, it's oPRESSive stalking and harassment at best.