Re your 4th point, I think that the boardrooms of the corporate MSM are secretly as pro-Trump as anyplace outside a MAGA rally. They absolutely long for the days when they could simply post one of his outrageous tweets and publicly clutch their pearls while privately smiling all the way to the bank.

Then-CBS head Les Moonves was widely criticised in 2016 when he said that "Trump may be bad for the country, but he's damn good for CBS", but such criticism was pretty hypocritical coming from the others in the media. He only slipped by saying the proverbial quiet part out loud.