Are you able to think about Jake Tapper, or any main mild of the liberal media, analogizing, say, Barack Obama to a murderous mob boss? Rhetorical query. However on CNN’s State of the Union, Tapper did simply that concerning President Trump.
Discussing the approaching assembly between Trump and Chuck Schumer to debate the looming authorities shutdown, Tapper, making a Godfather II analogy, requested Speaker Mike Johnson:
“So at this assembly tomorrow, is President Trump trying to make a deal, or is it going to be like when Michael Corleone met Senator Geary: ‘My provide is that this— nothing?”
Johnson, a really cool buyer, did not rise to Tapper’s nasty bait. As an alternative, Johnson responded: “We’ll must see.”
In fact, if Trump is Corleone, that makes Schumer the totally corrupt Senator Geary, who was later present in mattress with a lifeless prostitute.
Observe: When Johnson stated that as a part of the funds deal, Schumer “needs to reinstate free well being take care of unlawful aliens,” Tapper initially responded: “I feel he would take challenge with that.”
However later, Tapper tried in his personal proper to refute Johnson’s declare: “So, simply as some extent of reality, it is in opposition to the legislation for noncitizens to get these subsidies.”
Observe Tapper’s euphemism for unlawful aliens: “noncitizens.”
Johnson pushed again: “Sure, it’s unlawful for unlawful aliens to obtain well being care paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. However they’re making the demand to alter that.”
Here is the transcript.
CNN
State of the Union
9/28/25
9:02 am EDTJAKE TAPPER: A couple of days in the past, President Trump rejected even assembly with Democratic leaders, reportedly on the urging of you and the Senate Majority Chief John Thune. What modified?
MIKE JOHNSON: Nicely, I had a protracted speak with the president yesterday, Jake, and he feels the identical means that I do about this. He is all the time open to dialogue, however he needs to function in good religion.
So he determined to deliver us all in. He needs to speak with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, and simply attempt to persuade them to observe frequent sense and do what’s proper by the American folks. Jake, it is necessary to level out the one factor we are attempting to do is purchase a little bit time. You recognize, the appropriators in each events have been working very diligently during the last many weeks to work via the appropriations course of.
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However this is the issue. We run out of clock, as a result of the top of this, September thirtieth is the top of the fiscal yr. So what we did was a easy, clear, persevering with decision. It is 24 pages in size. All it does is hold the federal government open so appropriators can proceed to do that work collectively, bipartisan.
Chuck Schumer got here again with a protracted laundry listing of partisan calls for that do not match into this course of, and he will attempt to shut the federal government down. The president needs to speak with him about that and say, please, do not do this.
TAPPER: So, at this assembly tomorrow, is President Trump trying to make a deal, or is it going to be like when Michael Corleone met Senator Geary? My provide is that this, nothing.
JOHNSON: [Chuckles.] Nicely, we’ll must see.
However I can let you know the place his head and his coronary heart are. He needs to do proper by the folks. He doesn’t need the Democrats to carry up troops’ pay, , the individuals who serve within the army. They do not get paid throughout a shutdown. He would not need WIC funding, , Girls, Infants, and Youngsters Diet program being held up. He would not need telehealth and psychological well being and FEMA companies to be stopped. That is what Chuck Schumer is holding hostage. Why? In order that he can add $1.5 trillion in new spending at a time once we’re merely simply making an attempt to maintain the federal government going for seven weeks so we are able to have these debates. It is improper.
He additionally needs to, by the way in which, what Chuck Schumer is demanding in alternate for all these good issues I simply listed, he needs to reinstate free well being take care of unlawful aliens paid by American taxpayers. We aren’t doing that. We will not do this. That is simply one of many loopy issues he is requesting.
TAPPER: Nicely, I feel he would take challenge with that.
