the media demonizes trump religiously

Reporting what he says and does isn't demonizing. Hell, if anything the mainstream media almost always goes easy on him with their fallacious "being neutral and also centrist is always being objective" dogma.

its hard not to believe this is what trump would say. I don’t even need to hear the recording, which of course there is one

True. Especially given the above and the fact that legacy media is risk-averse to an absolutely pathological degree with regards to making sure people, and Trump, can't sue them.

That dude has opinions of everything, especially of things he doesn’t understand.

Yup, comes with the territory of being a malignant narcissist idiot savant self-promoter.

Most of the networks aren't tongue-bathing his droopy old shriveled scrotum like Fox and other Russian state media organizations. That doesn't mean they're demonizing him.

How does one demonize a demon? It was seriously maddening all those years. NBC tried to help him whitewash his reputation.

Honestly, I'm both surprised and saddened to see how much the media is still holding back against him at this point. NBC and attached executives have a treasure trove of bigoted, sexist, racist things he said in the course of his whitewashing. But won't release it. And this is the co-parent of one of the biggest center right media companies in the United States. MSNBC who's still criticized Trump plenty. But they're only still scratching the surface of just how evil and petty the man truly is. But as you say, it's completely in character for the man to have said such things.