Stephen Miller had to be escorted off CNN’s set after his interview with Jake Tapper went off the rails

Twitter/CNN Stephen Miller needed to be escorted off a CNN set on Sunday. His appearance on “State of the Union” ended abruptly after host Jake Tapper pressed him on damaging claims about President Donald Trump. Tapper said Miller was speaking “to an audience of one.” White House adviser Stephen Miller was escorted off the set […]

‘Calm down’: CNN’s Tapper cuts off Trump’s aide in cringeworthy interview

CNN’s Jake Tapper decided to cut off White House advisor Stephen Miller during an on-air interview in which both sides somehow lost their cool. Tapper had Miller on to talk about Fire and Fury, the controversial book on the Trump presidency penned by Michael Wolff. The book contains a number of explosive allegations, including former […]

‘An accountability free zone’: Jake Tapper rips Trump and the White House over repeated blunders

Screenshot via CNN CNN host Jake Tapper dressed down President Donald Trump after a series of public blunders that have damaged the White House’s credibility. Tapper opened a monologue on his program, “The Lead,” on Thursday recapping the drama around Trump’s suggestion that there were “tapes” of his conversations with FBI Director James Comey, who […]

Jake Tapper presses Bernie Sanders after congressional shooting on whether his ‘revolution’ rhetoric encourages violence

CNN CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday on whether his calls for political “revolution” to remake the American economic system could be misinterpreted as a call for violence.  “You have been speaking the language of revolution for many years,” Tapper said, after noting Sanders’ repeated condemnations of violence. “Are you concerned that some individuals are […]

‘There is a word for that line of thinking: “un-American”‘ — Jake Tapper slams White House for barring press from briefing

CNN anchor Jake Tapper offered a two-minute take on the Trump administration on Friday after some news organizations were kept out of a press briefing. This is a “White House that has had some difficulty telling the truth and has seemed to have trouble getting up to speed on the basic competent functioning of government,” […]

How Jake Tapper became the ideal newsman of our age

This past Thursday, an eternity in Trump time, Jake Tapper began his daily CNN show The Lead by addressing Donald Trump’s untermensch Steve Bannon’s recent comments that the media ought to “keep its mouth shut.” With disdain in his eyes and a sneering smile on his face, Tapper succinctly responded, “No”—a no swiftly shared around social media. […]

‘It’s a lie’: Jake Tapper calls out Trump during a fiery interview with Kellyanne Conway

During an interview on CNN’s “The Lead” Jake Tapper called out President Donald Trump for falsely stating that the murder rate is the highest it has been in 47 years, and for saying that the media deliberately didn’t cover some terrorist attacks because it didn’t serve their agenda. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended the president saying the […]

Jake Tapper scorches White House with 2-minute fact-check on Trump’s immigration order

CNN CNN anchor Jake Tapper called out White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday, issuing a scathing critique of Spicer’s attempts to downplay President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigrants and refugees. Earlier on Tuesday, Spicer had insisted to the White House press corps that Trump’s executive order, signed on Friday, was not a […]

CNN’s Jake Tapper gave a one-word response to a top Trump adviser’s attack on journalists

Screenshot via CNN CNN anchor Jake Tapper had a terse response to President Donald Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon, who insisted that the news media should “keep its mouth shut” about the new president. “No,” Tapper said in the opening of his show, “The Lead” on Thursday. Bannon, who ran the far-right website, Breitbart, before joining […]