I think this is the most authentic take we're going to hear from him on the matter. The raw emotion he felt in post which is that Trump straight up embarrassed the NABJ, the sister next to him said "he embarrassed US", and while there's many ways to read into that, I'll leave it up to your interpretation.
The 1/3 of the journalists worked for FOX, we'll ignore her for sake of argument, the other 2 were more serious in trying to nail him down but he's simply too evasive and they were too unprepared to deal with someone like him. When he would interrupt them, they would fall back and let him cook but he didn't pay them the same courtesy. Optics matter here and what it looked like a man making light work of 3 journalists.
This doesn't help the narrative that he's afraid to debate Kamala.
black pasivity?