The media appears to have concluded that the social pressure campaign against the president has failed. From Business Insider:
Trump has threatened not to leave the White House on Inauguration Day, report says
This appears to mark an important shift in the narrative. Now the media is no longer focused on trying to legitimize the Biden charade, but is attempting to preemptively delegitimize President Trump’s metaphorical crossing of the Rubicon, which would be marked by the president’s invocation of the Insurrection Act and Executive Order 13848.