Indeed. Trump cares very little for what people who believe CNN think. Same can be said majority of Americans, who don't trust mainstream media and are thus immune to the ongoing smear campaign.
There is very little redeeming qualities to financial and political elite, not just in US but in Western countries in general. Neoliberal oligarchy that plagues Western countries is an unpleasant relic of past century, and it can and will be replaced.A big scale war against any of those 2 countries would just generate profits to a small select elite at the expense of a literal big, big human sacrifice.