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No, American journalists (or at least those in DC) are like this all the time at stand up press avails (ie not regular press conferences with a moderator, where a politicians pauses to answer a few questions), with every president
It is performative, but it's just 'look at meeee, I'm searching out the truth, ITS HABBENING'
Historically Americans have poor impulse control. They also don't think strategically which is why it's very rare for these same journalists to ask decent follow up questions or to support each others' questions to get at the actual answers, but this is also driven in part by the absolutely shitty economics of journalism