Interesting question this, "who has/had tougher media treatment". Reagan or Trump? Kind of like:
Montana or Brady?
Mays or Trout?
The more important question for me is, if the Trump-has-it-worse people are right and it is worse now, is his bad behavior somehow justifiable....
And conversely, if Reagan were excoriated in a different way than he was (blamed for everything wrong in the world as he was, but in a 24/7 world, would he have been justified in behaving badly because of that?
For me, logically, there is never an excuse for bad behavior, no matter what the opposition is, so it's a moot point.