I'm no fan of Trump but this sort of makes sense. Every time he does any sort of public appearance we get a soundbite of how far he's gone.

I assume his team wants to mitigate that by basically not having him give any more ammo to the Dems. Let's not forget that voters will forget these things almost immediately. So if you stop the flood things that make him look bad then there's a good chance people on the fence will forget that he just stood there for like 30min doing nothing, or that he didn't answer a straight answer, or that he clearly didn't win the vote back from that town hall appearance.