I post here a lot less because the engagement level is not that good, but I saw your post and feel compelled to reply because I see your post as a sickness among humans and going back to the days of ancient humans where tribes would gang up against another human by whispering that other chieftains have accused that person of (fill-in-the-blank) and we must believe those people because they are "in authority" and would never lie or be mistaken.
While your post is about Trump, this is what happened to Charlie Kirk. Media (those in authority) demonized him and said he was a vile racist and hated trans people. I asked for the proof and got silence.
I always ask for the specifics of why Trump is "bad" and I get silence, or I get some stupid shirt that essentially says "People in authority don't like him or his own tribal member chieftains criticize him". Kirk was killed because of demonization by those who felt threatened by his words of truth, which was that the civil rights act kept blacks in poverty and that trans people shouldn't be allowed to parade around in classrooms.
But they won't show me where trans is good or why we must accept it, and they won't show me where the civil rights act elevated blacks out of poverty. The same with Trump. Who gives a rat's ass what his VP says or anyone else in our tribe says? We're supposed to hate someone now on the feelings and opinions of those "in authority"?