President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked CNN host Jake Tapper after Tapper ended a contentious interview with White House aide Stephen Miller by telling Miller that he had “wasted” the audience’s time with a performance for “one viewer.”
“Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration,” Trump tweeted. “Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!”
Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
“Judge for yourself,” Tapper replied.
? Here’s the interview; judge for yourself: https://t.co/ABRsdNTltt https://t.co/fFmd8DU3XT
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 7, 2018
Tapper on Sunday ended his interview with Miller after the White House aide refused to answer his questions and instead demanded “three minutes” to tout Trump’s accomplishments and base.
“I get it. There’s one viewer that you care about right now and you’re being obsequious, you’re being a factotum in order to please him, okay?” Tapper said, as Miller continued to speak over him. “And I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time.”
He then ended the interview.
Some are calling Tapper’s interview with Miller “normalization.” I don’t see it that way: I see it as Tapper smacking back against the psychotic WH narrative in a way that very few mainstream media have yet engaged.
It is time to stop paying attention to Trump and the Trump-promoting apologists, propangandists and story-tellers on his staff. It just feeds his needs and madness. We need to focus on who can get us out of the fix we are in.
One gift suggestion for thoughtful Americans:
Ten inch high doll wearing a suit and bearing the face of McConnell, Grassley, Graham, Ryan, Nunes, Gowdy, … . The battery-operated head swivels 360 degrees. As it swivels, the doll says “okay, okay, okay, …” There is a doll for any elected representative who readily finds a way to excuse whatever Trump does or threatens to do, no matter how egregious. You can collect several of the dolls and seat them in the pews of the free all-plastic Evangelical Church of Trump, pastored by a Pence doll that comes free whenever you buy more than three dolls. The Pence doll’s head does not swivel. It just stares straight ahead, saying, “Praise God, Love Donald”. The Trump doll seated at the altar comes bald with attachable orange hair. The dolls are Russian-made, selling for 120 rubles ($2.16) each. Batteries not included. Available on President’s Day, in time for 2018 mid-term elections.
The audience-of-one approves.
Huh, I thought the Stable Genius was much, much too busy to watch any TV
With a swift response from Trump, does this mean this interview was special to Trump. The size of reaction is bigger than seems appropriate. I was surprised that Trump hit Twitter that fast. It is a knee jerk reaction from someone not in control of their emotional state. It certainly did not help the image or sense of distance.
Tapper had to read that Tweet and had a “Gotcha where ya live” moment.