Its not just Trump.
You load a profession with degenerates and pathological liars, you get professional liars and degenerates.
There’s your “journalism”.
My Dad fought WWII in the Navy. On destroyers in the North Atlantic and the Med, sunk twice. The last half of the war on Guam.
Came home, married my Mom and got a degree in Journalism on the GI Bill from the University of Wisconsin. I once asked him why Journalism. He told me he considered it the “most noble of professions”.
That was before he met Dan Rather in Viet Nam, who told him that as long as he was bureau chief, Americans would only see the war the way he wanted them to see it...body counts...American leaders screwing up and getting their units blown away...photos of bodies hanging on wire and American units committing atrocities, etc.
He told me that Viet Nam was over-covered and reporters were starving, looking for that big story that made their career. The female reporters were in a better position in that they could fall back on the “oldest profession” to survive.
If he were alive today, he would be broken-hearted to see what his “noblest of professions” has sunk to. Of course, I think that journalism has never been “noble”. We now have alternative communications systems that allow us to see the truth. Journalists have always been lying to us.