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.