This also makes a LOT more sense after reading this article by Eugyppius. TomK - I believe you're the one who posted it here, right?

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/on-the-constant-unrelenting-and-unhinged

Anyway, it was a really interesting read. A few quotes:

The German media industrial complex is truly fanatical when it comes to hating Trump. We are basically conducting a real-world experiment to determine how much media manipulation can achieve when deployed en masse against a low-information, credulous population. My American readers will say that their own media is heavily biased, but German media is vastly, vastly more extreme.

Even that is only a partial picture, because you have to remember that there is no major opposition media in Germany at all. The newsweekly Junge Freiheit, for example – which covers Trump about as sympathetically as Fox News – has a circulation of less than 30,000. It is all wall-to-wall anti-Trump screeching all the time here in the Federal Republic.