In 2020 it seems the more fantastical the story about Trump, the more eagerly corporate media will promote it- even at risk to international relations if German ministers haven't learned to take fake news with a grain of salt yet.
"... They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us." -- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
