According to the Gemeniz (reddit sourced) the line from history is "Will none of these lazy insignificant persons... deliver me from this turbulent priest?" although this was recorded hundreds of years after the fact of its utterance. The essence being that Henry being used to throwing his weight around was truly surprised that his complaint was regarded as an order.
The screenplay of Becket treats this gingerly, O'Toole gives King Henry both grief at the loss of his friend, and elation that his figurehead enjoys new status as Becket is sainted.
What one has to understand is that Trump is their religion to which everyone else must be subservient.
It was more than just "a bunch of lies", but an entire parallel media ecosystem. Fox News is the most visible part of it, but there are also newspapers, local TV channels, radio, and eventually their own social network. They spent the 60s and 70s building up the network of evangelical preachers.
In addition, they've been systematically destroying other sources: the Washington Post, Twitter, NPR. When they cannot destroy it, they devote a constant barrage of pressure on their other media to discredit it.
Plus guest appearances from a shadowy network of Russian trolls. I think it's a relatively small influence, but it has been a persistent goad in that direction.
There was a careful political plan to take over the majority of state governments and the Supreme Court. Each of those led to more ability to control the narrative and the outcome of elections.
This wasn't minor and it wasn't an accident. It wasn't exactly centrally planned, but a lot of very rich people put a lot of money in the same direction, and this is the result.
