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Jake Tapper's New Broadcast Office Decor Is TOTALLY Not a Metaphor for CNN

Grateful Calvin
Grateful Calvin  |  9:00 AM on March 21, 2026


As Twitchy reported overnight, CNN is trying out a new look for the shows on its failing network. No, they're not demanding accuracy in reporting from their 'journalists' -- that's just crazy talk. 

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Instead, they are trying to 'podcastify' the network (yes, that's a word; a word we completely made up). Out are the staid traditional studio sets. In are oversized microphones and loose ties for Anderson Cooper, and Jake Tapper hosting his show from his cute and kitschy office.

It's like that time on The Simpsons when Moe 'rebranded' Moe's Tavern as Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag, complete with alligators on the wall and Million Dollar Birthday Fries. 

That rebranding didn't work because ultimately, it was the same grumpy, misanthropic Moe serving up the awful food and expletives. ('Ow, my freakin' ears,' as Todd Flanders said.)

This one won't work either because CNN isn't changing its editorial bias or unprofessionalism; they're merely slapping a garish paint job on it. 

Bridget Phetasy, a truly funny and successful podcaster, said it best: 

HA! How dare CNN engage in cultural appropriation! 

Our favorite part of Tapper's announcement, however, was when he described the decor in his new office broadcast location. Like a waiter at Chotchkie's in Office Space showing off his flair, Tapper proudly displayed his vast collection of ... presidential losers. Here is a transcript from the video above: 

You might also be wondering about the décor — posters and the tchotchkes and such on my wall. Well, the theme is these are all losing presidential campaigns. And this hobby started 26 years ago after I covered my very first presidential campaign in 2000. Campaigning and hopping from bus to plane to bus to plane, I collected lawn signs and posters of candidates. By the end of the election, I had a really great collection of… well… losers.There's an autographed Gore-Lieberman one from 2000. So anyway, this became a hobby. Here, come back to me here. You'll see this is one of the grand achievements in my collection. It's an Al Smith poster. He lost in 1928, Democrat to Herbert Hoover.

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Of course, there was also a Jake Tapper muppet. Because the media is nothing if not raging narcissists. 

Still, as a metaphor for how low CNN has sunk, we can't think of a better one than to have one of its flagship shows festooned with a vast array of losers. 

And make sure to put a giant poster of Al Smith right behind him! The same Al Smith who lost the 1928 election by a whopping 444-87 electoral votes.

LOL.  

We suppose a Kamala Harris 'brat' poster would have been too on the nose. 

That part was pretty funny, too. There's no way Tapper works in an office that looks that insane. 

Or works at all, really. 

LOL. Almost as convincing as that time Chief Lies-A-Lot Liz Warren enjoyed an ice-cold beer from her kitchen. 

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But that office looks so authentic!

Said no one ever. 

The giant Ralph Nader poster -- four-time presidential loser Ralph Nader, to be more precise -- sums up that vibe pretty well.

Either that or a bar and grill known for Trivia Tuesdays and Margarita Madness. 

We couldn't help notice that the memorabilia for Joe Biden -- who lost two presidential campaigns and was defenestrated by Barack Obama in his most recent attempt -- was hidden during Tapper's tour of his office. 

We can't imagine why. 

The secondhand embarrassment is killing us. 

It's always been, and continues to be, the world's worst cologne. 

Of course, it's not going to work. Unless the objective was to get people to mock CNN even more. 

We will not be surprised when CNN abandons this super-duper authentic experiment as quickly as they slapped it together. 

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But we can't wait for Tapper's next set decoration, that's totally not a metaphor for his network as a whole: 

Canadian Stanley Cup playoff losers over the past 32 years.

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