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It makes a kind of sense to me because a lot of news about Trump since the first time he started running is vacuous click-chasing. From what I've read, Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016 even employed a "pied piper" strategy with Trump, intentionally elevating far-right elements of the Republican party with the belief that they would be unpalatable to the general public and so easier to beat: https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
And since then, a lot of news about him is "he said whaaaaaa?" Rather than being substantive criticism of his policy; his policy is trash, but the mainstream publications can't properly criticize his policy without also criticizing the kind of policy they normally support, so there's a lot of superficial criticism. It can get tiring to hear about the next word salad thing he said, which may or may not be a complete lie in the first place.