In case you missed it, at a rally in Ohio yesterday, former President Donald Trump referred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “an animal”:
Trump calls Nancy Pelosi an "animal."
"She impeached me twice for nothing!" pic.twitter.com/zItSRg0IfE
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 8, 2022
OK, so, to be clear, this was not a classy thing for Donald Trump to say. Not that he’s known for being classy, but yeah. He could very easily have not called her “an animal” and gotten his point across. (He at least does have a point that Nancy Pelosi shouldn’t have run to defend MS-13’s honor.)
Anyway, with all that said, the way Jake Tapper reacted to it, you’d think Trump had called Pelosi “deranged, unhinged, and dangerous” or “Mr. Make Matters Worse.” No, wait, sorry. That’s what Nancy Pelosi called Donald Trump. Silly us.
Anyway, here’s what Jake Tapper said about Trump’s “animal” comment:
While this interview was airing, with Speaker Pelosi sharing her heartbreak after an intruder looking for her broke into her house and attacked her husband, prompting a national conversation about dehumanizing rhetoric, Donald Trump called her an "animal" to an Ohio rally. https://t.co/BXnZ65eYxx
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 8, 2022
OK … and?
— Rosie's End of Democracy 🗽 (@DarnelSugarfoo) November 8, 2022
Jake seems a tad melodramatic here.
I can’t believe American politics didn’t stop just because some nudist hippie illegal alien had a mental break.
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) November 8, 2022
Even for a Russia collusion hoaxer and Democrat propagandist such as Tapper, this is laying it on a bit thick. Have some dignity. https://t.co/d8wQIOGOWG
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 8, 2022
Seriously, Jake. Come on. Trump wasn’t referring to Pelosi as “an animal” in the context of the Paul Pelosi attack. Also, since when are you concerned about “dehumanizing rhetoric”?
Trump will go away but the right’s contempt for the media never will. Because of crap like this.
You can hate Trump and recognize that the same people demanding no more criticism of Pelosi continued to smear and attack Kavanaugh after the assassination attempt. https://t.co/ZWCjJTATDS
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) November 8, 2022
I must have missed Jake’s righteous disappointment and criticism of the top Democrats continuing to criticize and smear Kavanaugh and his opinions despite the attempted assassination. Must have been absent that day.
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) November 8, 2022
Nope, you weren’t absent. It just never happened.
Or you know they called him a rapist in the first place, based on absolutely no evidence.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 8, 2022
You can look right now where people are cheering Ted Cruz getting a beer bottled lobbed at his head; a Republican congressional candidate had someone shoot into his home, and not a word of condemnation about left-wing rhetoric has been called for.
— Jon (@SixOhJon) November 8, 2022
Jake Tapper’s indignation over Donald Trump’s “dehumanizing rhetoric” about Nancy Pelosi rings hollow as hell. Just last week, President Biden doubled down on his smears of Republican voters as “extreme/ultra/mega MAGA” domestic terrorists who will unleash extreme/ultra/mega violence if Democrats aren’t unilaterally running the country. The “dehumanizing rhetoric” is literally coming from inside the White House, Jake. Why don’t you go pay them a visit? And then feel free to head on home to your own glass house:
The guy who all but accused Dana Loesch and Marco Rubio of being co-conspirators to the Parkland shooting suddenly has thoughts on tone and rhetoric. https://t.co/5c23VuO8gO
— JC Klein (@panicchicken01) November 8, 2022
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