Your memory is the same as mine; and I think it was much the same in the country beyond this website as well. Things have changed now though. People see how much he irritates their political opponents, so cozy up into his scrotum as much as possible in some sort of anti-social virtue signal. You can see the evidence in the above political cartoon with the justices wearing MAGA hats. The way it's presented makes it feel like the artist thinks that those four conservative judges have Trump to thank for their conservativism or something, as if they were simply supreme court justice place holders until he came along.