Chad Dietz simply shook his head and said, “They don’t get it, do they?”

The 32-year-old account manager for a medical device company in Greenwood, Indiana, was reacting to the whole Donald Trump vs. “Hamilton” war. But it wasn’t Trump’s angry tweets that had Dietz upset; it was the media’s overreaction to them.

Dietz likes that Trump fights back. Reporters may think it’s a distraction and pointless, but his supporters want a fighter. They see his tweets as not just strength, but a defense of himself and them.

And since all of Hollywood is united against Trump, Twitter is the only platform for him to defend himself.

“Three days later they (media) are still at it, they are grasping at straws to try to make this bigger than it was. Trump felt [Vice President-elect Mike] Pence was ambushed is he supposed to just sit back?” Dietz said.

“Look, I am not a fan of either man,” added Dietz, who said he voted for Gary Johnson. “But he did the right thing, and the media and the elite still keep making the same mistakes.”

After “Hamilton,” Trump was lampooned on “Saturday Night Live” and the American Music Awards, where Gigi Hadid made fun of his wife. Trump tweeted again at the fact that “SNL” portrayed him as a moron.

Mike Powers, a 28-year-old medical device salesman from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, gets why Trump goes off. It isn’t just about standing up for his vice president, it’s about standing up for all of us, he said.

“We all just want to go watch a football game or go out to dinner or the theater without having political drama surrounding us because we may have voted for Trump,” Powers said.

While making fun of politicians and politics is a great American tradition, Powers perceives an imbalance. It was rare for someone to take a shot at President Obama, but both Presidents Bush and the last Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, were relentlessly parodied, mocked or cussed at.

The caricatures of Sarah Palin, Trump and President Ronald Reagan on “SNL” were dark, biting — embedded with the idea that they were pure evil.

The closest the show got to taking a hit at a Democrat was a lighthearted portrayal of President Bill Clinton as a glutton eating McDonald’s and flirting with women.

‘Trump is the first candidate to figuratively punch the bully in the face, and people love that.’ - Michael Ward, Pennsylvania Republican

The first show after the election, meanwhile, featured Kate McKinnon, who gently parodied Hillary Clinton, singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as if it were a national day of mourning. Had Trump lost, the skit would have had her dancing on The Donald’s grave.

Here is what the cosmopolitan class still does not get: It’s not just Donald Trump you are making fun of, it is people outside your circle, the voters whose sentiments and values that have been the punch line of Hollywood’s jokes for their entire lives.

And along comes this guy who finally says enough is enough, and they like it, said retired business executive Bill Englert, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. “Trump is standing up for the so-called deplorables, intolerables and irredeemables excoriated by Hillary and the left,” he said.

At the Golden Dawn restaurant bar in Youngtown, a group of fraternity brothers, a mix of Trump and Clinton supporters, all agreed that what people like about Trump is that he emotes strength, stands up for himself, and — most of all — irritates reporters.

There is no subtlety in the elite’s perception of the rest of the country; they don’t think you respect them, or view them as equal.

Michael Ward comes from blue-collar Monongahela Valley roots, and his family went from working-class Democrats to middle-class Republicans. At 32, he has been involved with Republican politics all his life despite living in a pretty Democratic area.

Ward, initially a Marco Rubio supporter, witnessed the impression that Trump left on voters of all backgrounds in Greensburg. “Fighting, whether it is justified or not, or whether you are right or wrong, is completely irrelevant, people just want someone that is not afraid to stand up for their cause,” he said.

“I know it’s probably crazy to say, but I think the American people felt like it was being bullied by corporate media’s view of them. Trump is the first candidate to figuratively punch the bully in the face, and people love that.”