Why exactly is the media/personalities bending the knee to Trump this time around?

When he first was POTUS the media couldn’t wait for him to slip up and they were basically printing money by how much content he would feed them so that they can land easy dunks on him.

Why are they all so scared now?

It’s not like Steve Bannon is a “new” threat or anything. SCOTUS was already tilted towards him before he left, he had control of congress for 2 years, and the support he got from his base.

Now bro comes around a 2nd time talking about acquiring Canada and Greenland and instead of laughing all the way to the bank…the mainstream media and social media platforms are doing everything they can to literally polish his boots.

Why is he all of a sudden so powerful now? To me, this just feels like 2016 all over again, but it seems the media just lost its spine.

Is it because Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are pulling strings for him in the background?