13 pages in the last week for 'Trump':
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=trump&sort=byPopularity&prefix...
I do however think that Trump is an extreme problem, but also a foreseeable one. I think it's revisionist history to say that Obama's terrible presidency got due attention on HN or anywhere else. Democracy Now! was one of the few outlets that did though, so kudos for posting them.