There’s been a great deal of outrage and whining from President Trump and his fellow Republicans over a photo Kathy Griffin appeared in which showed her holding the severed head of the president. Griffin later apologized for being a part of the photo shoot, but it has already cost her a shot at co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve show with Anderson Cooper for the indefinite future.
But another employee of CNN, host Jake Tapper, weighed on the issue via Twitter, and while he condemned Griffin’s actions, he also reminded Trump and his GOP cohorts that they don’t exactly have clean hands when it comes to the issue:
Indecent behavior should be condemned — including not just faux presidential beheadings but, say, mocking the disabled or denigrating POWs
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 31, 2017
That’s right, Tapper did indeed put it right back in Trump’s face by reminding him of how he made fun of reporter Serge Kovaleski’s disability and said Senator John McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured and a POW at the infamous Hanoi Hilton.
Trump defenders on social media tried to make Tapper look like was complicit in the whole Kathy Griffin matter, but he was more than equal to their taunts:
I can rule out that anyone I spoke to or heard from in any way thought it was anything but disgusting and offensive
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 31, 2017
And then criticism from the left arrived from Rosie O’Donnell. Again, Tapper managed to keep his cool and make it clear he didn’t have time for divisiveness from either side of the political spectrum:
AND DO U DENOUNCE ALL THE RIGHT WING MORONS WHO SPEW HATRED AND LIES ON UR NETWORK DAILY JAKE – TALK AOUT DISGUSTING AND INAPPROPRIATE #USA
— ROSIE (@Rosie) May 31, 2017
it his show – same with anderson – if its got ur name in the title – all that takes place on it is up to U – say no to the assholes – easy
— ROSIE (@Rosie) May 31, 2017
OK: no.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 31, 2017
Personally, while I disagree with the photos Griffin agreed to be a part of, I also see it as part of a larger karmic balance coming into play. Donald Trump constantly attacks people in petty, personal, and and offensive ways. If some of that comes back on him–say in the form of a special counsel named Robert Mueller who winds up exposing the president for the traitor he is–I certainly won’t shed a tear for the jerk who betrayed his own country.
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