Agree. Like you, I chuckle every time they say that warming is worse this year than ever before, when our overall trend for the past couple of decades has been to get cooler. LOL
Of course, I'm not ready to say that the Modern Warm Period is over. There's historical precedent from prior warming and cooling periods having decades long hiccups. (i.e. IIRC, the Little Ice Age had about 50 years of warming from around AD 1470 to 1520, then resumed cooling until the 1800's.). Likewise, our current two decades of cooling probably doesn't mean the Modern Warm Period is over (it probably has 2 to 4 more centuries left, assuming it'll last as long as the past few warming periods).