Was it all a ruse to build demand for state media? Or was the admin simply too incompetent to forsee this outcome?
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I would strongly bet on incompetence, I think Trump just threw a dumbass narcissistic temper tantrum and lashed out at these organizations because he's a cornered rat and he knows it and his lawyers just had to scramble to put the best presentation on it they could, which got laughed out of court because they're a bunch of idiots trying to justify the actions of an even bigger idiot
How is this a bad outcome for Trump? He's wasting a lot of resources for those news outlets that hang to fight this
All they got was a 14 day access order, which the Trump admin did not even initially honor, costing the outlets even more time and resources
Wasting his administration's own resources just as much as everyone else involved is, except he's wasting resources for a losing effort. Also I'm pretty sure like five different non-profit media advocacy organizations jumped in to represent these networks and did the heavy lifting for them, so really they just got free advertising out of this.
All they got was a 14 day access order
Which is almost certainly going to be extended within 14 days, so it's effectively a permanent access order
Wasting his administration’s own resources just as much as everyone else involved is
Using ressources for what you want to do (demolishing democracy in this case) is no waste.
It's not like this administration is using any ressources on anything else anyway... well, maybe with the exception of enriching themselves.
This, plus it makes the courts look corrupt to his supporters.
Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
To be fair, that is a general rule because actual malice is rarer than incompetence/ stupidity. In Trump's case, he is demonstrably malicious and stupid. So it's hard to say which it sometimes. Probably both.
B.
SO? He hasn't obeyed ANY laws or social norms his entire life. What makes anyone think he will this time?
I hear you, but the first sentence of the article states that he (or the Whitehouse, at least) has already actively complied with the ruling.
"Yeah, we gave them access to the White House.
To the ballroom. Hahahahahaha!"