On your last paragraph Caleb ... don't have time right now to watch the half hour, but I certainly agree with your idea expressed.
You know I like to refer to Paglia on issues like this because I regard her -- a Jill Stein voter in 2016 and a Kamala Harris supporter for 2020 -- as centrist. She was asked on stage what were her 'feelings' about Donald Trump and she replied tersely, My feeling is that an election happened. She then calmly pointed out that Trump has been 'systematically' carrying out his campaign promises. It's not clear to me how you would view Trump differently. He shouted from the rooftops what he was going to do and he's been doing almost nothing but.
It's hard to imagine how he would have tried harder, the last 8 months, to do what he said he was going to do. The media paints him a liar; I think their true fear is that when he says something, they know what's coming next.
If it were true that he somewhere in the darkest corner of his mind he didn't care. Would it matter?