Jake Tapper Upset That His Tax Dollars Were Used to Air a Blatantly Political Ad

This might be our third post on Monday dunking on Jake Tapper, CNN anchor, Gov. Gavin Newsom's fly-fishing buddy and gracious dinner host to Anthony Fauci. Is it us, or has Tapper been unusually cranky lately? Yes, we know that his show, The Lead, is blatantly anti-Trump, but he seems to be publishing more and more posts where he takes his hatred of the current president personally. Back in August, he quote-tweeted a clip from serial fabulist Aaron Rupar with the caption, "There is zero reason to not take Trump at his word that he and his team are planning something alarming to disrupt the midterms and beyond." He jumped to his colleague Kaitlan Collins' defense against the "historically unpopular" president, who called Collins a "very average person." Speaking of unpopular, has he seen his ratings? Reruns of Fox News' The Five beat The Lead.

Now, Tapper is upset that his taxpayer dollars and yours have been used to air a "blatantly political" ad.

Blatantly political ad (taken from 2024 campaign speech) paid for by your/my tax dollars airs during NFL game. Standards once eroded seldom are restored so hope everyone is cool with this from now on. https://t.co/EoCLZ4ti5q
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) October 4, 2026

Save it for your next book.

@jaketapper Maybe you should write a book about it. Eagles suck, btw.
— JWF (@JammieWF) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Wait, you're talking about standards? That might be the funniest thing I've ever heard.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Horrible and in bad taste. I'm not talking about the commercial, but your choice in fireplace tile.
— Tim Wainwright (@tdwain1) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Remember when you campaigned for Biden every single day on television for free? I hope everyone was cool with that.
— Mark Kaye (@markkayeshow) October 4, 2026

Remember when CNN chose not to carry President Trump's prime-time speech on declassified intelligence regarding foreign election interference and voting system security?

@jaketapper Capitalism and patriotism shouldn't be political. Cry harder
— J (@JayTC53) October 4, 2026

@jaketapper Just like we're cool with weaponizing government against our political enemies. You're a joke of a human being
— Calvin (@6iggu5dicku5) October 4, 2026

@jaketapper Your 'journalism' is a massive political ad. Enjoy the pending layoffs.
— Bobo from Texas (@BoboFromTexas) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Once again you show you are a partisan. Biden did this as well and you said nothing.
— Zeffin (@ZeffinId) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper You can change the channel. Knock off your bullshit fear-mongering. Just because your viewers are too stupid to grasp what you’re doing, the rest of us can see it quite clearly. Stop trying to scare your low IQ viewers into acquiescence. You’re embarrassing yourself.
— 𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔🐥𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@KristineAz) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Spare us all the lecture on "standards". You're a reporter and whatever low standards you had when you started the job have all but disappeared.
— Donald Whitlock (@dwhitlock1970) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Yeah, I’d agree but the left poured hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into propaganda ngo’s worldwide and you never said a word, in fact you supported it, so this is just a tiny fraction of what you worms did
— The Bear (@quiettom2000) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper You have been blatantly political whenever you open your mouth. I’m fine with free speech.
— Sir Walter (@EmryRaleigh) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper Now you're beginning to understand how we feel about mainstream media.
— Danny Anderson (aka: Abuelo de la Spoopy) (@danander11) October 4, 2026

@jaketapper That is a non partisan public service message. Seriously, Jake: you are a laughing stock.
— Youyoyotoo💯🔙 (@youyoyotoo) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper I’m cool with it. It just skips the step of laundering the money through an NGO which you Dems have been doing for years. How does it taste? A little bitter, is it?
— Terry Croslow (@CroslowTerry) October 5, 2026

@jaketapper @jimsciutto Your entire network is a blatantly political ad. If the playing field was not already tilted way toward the communists and Islamists I might say you have a point. It would also be more complex if Trump was a current candidate. But you lose on both counts.
— AnimalFarm (@animalfarmnow) October 5, 2026

Patriotism used to be a nonpartisan attribute, but now it's considered "blatantly political" by the Left. Republicans are still patriotic. Hope you're cool with that.

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