And yet the nearly 2000 soldiers who died when Obama was pResident are unknown to everyone in the media
Correct. When Bush was President, the New York Times felt morally obligated to have an obit for every serviceman killed overseas. Then, under Obama, that moral obligation went away. Now, under Trump, the moral obligation is back. I don’t think anybody is fooled by the New York Times. (This doesn’t mean I believe everything that Trump says, either.)