Eh, who cares? There's ways to make the joke that are funny, no matter who's in power, and there's ways to make the joke reveal you're a dickhole, regardless of who's in power. You want to fire her? Fine. I'm still not watching CNN, no matter what happens.
You might have a point if anyone took CNN seriously, but given that nobody has since around the time of the OJ trial, you don't.
So even with two edited cuts in the middle of the video, they didn't manage to make their clip titled "CNN Crew Jokes About Trump's Plane Crashing" to show a CNN crew joking about Trump's plane crashing.
Maybe Merkel has your internet filter set so high even jokes about Trump's death didn't make it through. @ 1:28 for the free world.