Another point of hypocrisy? Bush and Obama exempted themselves from declassification protocols.

Arguments ad nauseum about how Trump did not follow proper declassification techniques fall in line with the classic "what is good for every other President is not okay for Trump". 

Pointed out by Turley:

Other presidents have asserted exemptions from declassification authority. An order by former President George W. Bush stated such an exemption for “information originated” by a president. That order was reaffirmed by former President Obama in Executive Order 13526 in 2009 and expressly exempts presidents, vice presidents, their staffs and “other entities within the Executive Office of the President.”

If that standing declassification order existed, it ended with his presidency, of course. However, it still existed when these boxes were taken to the resort. There may also be complicating logistics for investigators: If the documents were taken out of the White House on the last day of his presidency, the classification markings on the cover pages and internal headings might not have been crossed out.

There has never been litigation on the scope of this exemption or a president’s declassification authority. Nor is it clear whether any standing order was disclosed to the judge who approved the FBI’s warrant — but it could create a threshold legal challenge to a criminal charge.

So apparently the two Presidents directly preceding Trump also exempted themselves from having to go through the declassification process. In fact, the Bush EO was "reaffirmed" by the Obama EO 13526. Unless Trump specifically overturned the Obama EO on the subject, the rules would have been put in place by Obama. Trump probably needed to do nothing other than follow these previous Presidential orders.  

That being said, he is claiming to have a standing order to declassify materials he took to Mar-a-Lago. While this has been universally denounced by many Trump haters, it would likely not be much different in scope to how other Presidents handling classified materials. Given the amount of time Presidents spend at their residence or at Camp David or any number of places. The idea that they could do their job as President while only viewing classified information within the White House is hard to fathom. How else could they do their jobs (view classified information) at alternate location without the express ability to declassify those documents to view at other locations? The concept that Trump refers to seems logical and necessary, not corrupt and nefarious (as is being described).

I get the sense that most of this stems from the lefts refusal to see Donald Trump as a legitimate President. The idea of Obama declassifying information and taking it somewhere to work with it does not bother them because in their minds he could be trusted with that authority. The fact that he took more materials with him when he left office than any other recent President should not be questioned, because (again) he could be trusted in those regards.  In their minds, the idea that Trump is entitled to that same authority or given the same trust is not really an acceptable standard or even an acceptable argument. He might have been a President, but not a real President like Obama and therefore cannot be given the same benefit of the doubt.