[pessimizer]

It's not failure. The guy went from being a joke target game show host to POTUS. If you ask the Democrats and establishment Republicans, he was the most important President in recent history (although they view this negatively.) The fallout from his election snowballed to the level that it's threatening a world war, and he's the obvious favorite for the next presidency. It's not failure.

[rvz]

It seems that there is a level of eternal embarrassment the media, doubters, etc have felt since when they failed to stop the Trump presidency in 2016.

They made sure that they covered and did anything they could to stop him getting re-elected in 2020 which after losing lead to Jan 6th. Even after the acquittal, he is yet again still talked about running once again and did not run into another war.

I would have expected the media, and editors to have ignored him by now, but the fact they are finding it difficult to do so tells us that they are taking his possiblity of re-election seriously such that they know he could do it again.

Indeed, its not failure at all.