You're kidding, right?
They can find a way to hook him to Trump-hate if they want to, even if they have to flat-out lie to do it. They've done it before.
The only reason they'll not do it is if focus-group results indicate that Joe Average won't buy it.
Sure they can make it up - but his internet history (already archived) doesn’t say that. So it’s be blatant that they were making it up.
Now in New Zealand they HAVE been making it up - but they’re getting little push back there.