At Monday’s audio-only and photos-only White House press briefing, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta continued to make a fool out of himself, melting down and screaming at press secretary Sean Spicer over the current set-up for briefings.

Acosta first interrupted after a female reporter didn’t get her question answered. When he yelled at Spicer to answer her question, Spicer lobbed some A+ shade at Acosta: “There's no camera on, Jim.”

The CNN liberal immediately took Spicer’s bait, screaming as Spicer tried to move on: “Maybe we should turn the cameras on, Sean! Why don't we turn the cameras on? Why don't we turn the cameras on? Why not turn the cameras on, Sean? They’re in the room, the lights are on.”

Roughly 10 minutes later, local Fox affiliate WTTG-5 reporter Ronica Cleary asked about White House Correspondents Association president Jeff Mason’s meetings with the Trump press team and if the lack of on-camera briefings represented “a new normal.”

Instead of respectfully going back and forth with Spicer like Cleary did, Acosta interjected to further badger Spicer, convincing absolutely no one that he’s a sober journalist (and the type Spicer referenced last week):

ACOSTA: Why are the cameras off, Sean? Why don’t you turn them on? SPICER: Trey, Trey, Trey. ACOSTA: Can you just give you an answer to that? Can you tell us why you turned the cameras off? Why are they off, Sean? UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: It's a legitimate question. ACOSTA: It’s a legitimate question. You are a taxpayer-funded spokesman for the United States government. Can you at least give us an explanation of why the cameras are off?

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Thankfully for Acosta, One America News Network’s balanced White House reporter Trey Yingst bailed him out by pressing Spicer to “get this out of the way” and “address the cameras issue.”

Once the tape-delayed audio aired, Acosta was parked outside the White House to again pontificate with his grievances.

Taking the first issue of Spicer trolling CNN by not calling them, Acosta vented:

Sean Spicer has refused to take questions from CNN for weeks now. It has been going on for some time. You know, he may have taken a question here or there over the last couple of weeks, but we've largely been just blackballed during these briefings. We're just not getting questions to the press secretary. That would not have happened in previous administrations. Fox News always got a question every day at the briefing until President Obama, so let's just make sure that's perfectly clear to everybody watching out there. Fox News always got questions. MSNBC always got questions during the previous administrations. This is a new thing this White House is doing to us here at CNN and to a couple other news outlets as well.

“Let's make this clear. This is not a Trump campaign event. This is the United States government saying that we can't have cameras on inside the White House briefing room for an event that is typically covered with cameras...but, Ana, make no mistake, this is the gradual erosion of the expectations of the traditions that have been in this city for about a quarter of a century now, that these briefings be held on camera,” he added.

He finished on his third point by stating his concern that President Trump would be speaking this week with India’s Prime Minister in the Rose Garden but not holding a subsequent press conference.

“[H]e's getting the coverage without the accountability and I think that we just need to recognize what's happening here and that is what we are typically accustomed to in this town in terms of covering the White House, that is being eroded away right in front of our eyes,” Acosta concluded.

Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from June 26's CNN Newsroom: