“...the campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the American news media.”
I’d say that the media have waged a campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the American President, and that they started it first.
There is no way Trump could EVER hope to destroy the American mainstream media’s credibility as well as the MSM has done itself. They need to look in the mirror when they ask why no one believes them anymore. Whether it was carrying water for a clearly corrupt Hillary Clinton, trying to hide behind the First Amendment to run a sex tape of Hulk Hogan for fun and profit or to give a “sports” award to a man who stopped competing in track and field 40 years ago because he got breast implants and started wearing dresses, this is the state of today’s American media and NOBODY, nobody, did that to them but themselves. https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
“...the campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the American news media.”
Methinks the press has been hoist by its own petard.