The pain in Jake Tapper‘s face is priceless-he really feels the need to let you know that Marco Rubio used hip-hop references 🤣 pic.twitter.com/gOHjK6g1Hj
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) May 7, 2026
May 8, 2026
Jake Tapper looks supremely woeful as he labors to help us with Marco Rubio's 90s hip-hop references.
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Jake, could you just retire and move to Kalispell?
I can't tell if he's doing The Daily Show straight man shtick or he's trying to discredit Rubio. It works one of those ways so way to get it half right Jake...
Jake(D) - you magnificent hack - the references do not matter.
It’s like watching dinosaurs slowly realizing everything has changed. Poor fake Jake and his pretend concerned face. He’s spent so much time hewing to the DNC line that he’s forgotten that the real world exists outside the newsroom. And waking up to it now when the barbarians are already in the C Suite is just too little too late.
Oh well.
btw- Insane in the brain ranks close to I like big butts.
But I don't like a-holes like Jake Tapper(D)
Learn to mine lithium is the new learn to code.
What’s his point? I don’t get it….
That guy looks like he shaves with 180 grit sandpaper.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelsmith/p/gunboat-diplomacy-redux?
Boy, was that dumb.
I predict 100% chance of oval office "rapper" Rubio memes in his future. Eat your heart out Dr. Simon.
Yeah, Jake? Well, he down with DJT, so let him be.
Dredging for content I suppose. Jake, you don't have to post anything you know.
Also, needs a Cypress Hill tag.
Tick Tock. Times up.
@ The judge
What did Kalispell ever do to you?
Funnily enough, when we all gathered last week for my youngest's graduation, one night we did a Pitch Perfect marathon. In the second movie, the German a capella group performed Insane In the Brain. I'm pretty sure that's the only way I knew the song...
Cue steve buschemi gif
His comment is designed to use a passive aggressive approach to initiate a cringe reaction in younger Democrats whom may not know the source references.
In actually, it is Marco claiming his own space in the Overton Window expanded by Trump. It comes off as inauthentic and Kitschy, but Tapper response is even worse.
This shows both dudes struggling to get on board the contemporary polisci communication train.
He has that James Comey look: solemn, self-important, and visibly struggling through what appears to be a very difficult bowel movement.
That thin line between clever and stupid
Why isn't hack Jake Tapper(D) - reporting on....
on this ?
or this ?
or this ?
Eva - LOL. yes.
@Howard -- spot on.
Rubio is speaking about his generation of music and what he adapted to meaningful catchphrases. That's fine to most normal people, and many do get stuck on the music of their youth. Earlier generations made endless references to Elvis, Johnny Cash, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. "You can't always get what you want."
Tapper is speaking to opposite audiences: The condemnation would have worked with the very old anti Rock and anti Hip-Hop generation, but Hip-Hop has long been mainstream. "Rapper's Delight" was a megahit in 1979.
Younger listeners stand to either know those famous 1990s songs or be exposed to them via Tapper. They are more likely to like them as not, and may conclude that Rubio is more fun than they imagined.
This is a non-Trump update to the TDS playbook. Consider: "He's disqualified because of X, Y, and Z." "He said bad things." "He's out of touch with DEI norms." Then Trump went ahead and won anyway.
He misses Hillary.
Secretary Rubio looked intelligent, composed, engaged, and playful at the press conference. This will not be tolerated by Jake Tapper.
Ans why would you want to ruin Montana? (Kalispell reference)
Those 2 phrases didn't originate in rap songs. Rappers just incorporated them.
So, WTF cares. What’s the point?
Speaking of old, Tapper seems to be channeling the old "Steve Allen reads rock lyrics" shtick. Ending with his own Snoop Dogg reference was presumably meant to be amusing. I guess it was a little. The whole performance is so lugubrious, though, I'm still a bit confused as to what he thought he was doing.
How does someone this stiff make a career speaking to the public?
Secretary Rubio then mentioned his fondness of large derrieres on females. He asserted he would not be untruthful about that opinion.
Funny. Tapper is as "insane in the brain", as the Iranian leadership.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/capitals-and-chaos-friday-
Lying libtard Party apologist Fake Fapper looking like a constipated lesbian.
"Your family's cryin,' now you on the news, they can't find you and now they miss you."
Snoop Dogg, Drop it like it's Hot.
Trump should say...
"Who you trying to get crazy with, ese? Don't you know I'm loco?"
Intro to "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill.
Jake is probably looking even more woeful now that the Virginia SC has overturned the Democrat gerrymandering referendum.
Fight the power!
Ok, thanks jake. I don't know why you're doing this, but I guess its to make you hip to the under 60 crowd.
Too bad you failed
In Tapper's mind this is a way to diminish Rubio. "Oh look at him, he's using rap lyrics. And him a secretary of state!"
But of course, no one cares. Especially the Iranian leaders.
Pop quiz.
I always confuse Jake Tapper with Jeffrey Toobin and then worry about seeing him in front a computer camera. There are worse things to be seen and Toobin has shown them.
Jake could have had it all. He was positioned to be a great, trusted, objective, network journalist like Cronkite or Koppel. But then he went into far-left misinformation land and started to attack Republicans (And protect Democrats) right when the country was actually shifting more conservative and wanted journalists to be more neutral politically. He was disappointing.
Fake Jake Tapper is a straight-up cake boy.
This performance will not impress the new boss.
Cronkite and Koppel also went into far-left misinformation land and attacked Republicans right when the country was shifting more conservative. I don't think Koppel ever forgave himself for helping Reagan beat Carter. Nor did Cronkite forgive himself for helping usher out LBJ, but at least he made up for it by assisting in the big Watergate lie. CC, JSM
Tapper should "tap out" and leave the game while he's only say a half mile behind.
He is just realizing that Trump Will not be impeached and the house will most likely be republican for a generation.
Jake will always be comfortable because he’s a sold out soulless man.
But the little people are laughing at him. They are laughing at all of the beautiful people.
This makes Jake sad. Get fucked Jake.
If only Jake had had this much concern when President Brainless was wandering off during ceremonies and spouting gibberish......
Rubio serves at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
Trump: "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind" are from the iconic 1993 song "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg.”
Tapper looks and sounds so dour, dorky, and cranky. Plus, his glasses look like they have tape holding the middle together...ha, not like he reports from the middle.
Tapper with his "Professional Newsreader" face on.
Cronkite and CBS during its "Tiffany Network" era had a constant background goal: Push comforting center-left consensus politics. This was before the Republicans noticed or formulated a response. The leftward political pendulum swung at max speed.
CBS was the voice of the Great Society and EPA (60 Minutes), cutting down the military per Vietnam (M*A*S*H), and equity (The Jeffersons; black man walking on white man's back). And remember that "Watergate" was a Hollywood throwaway line for 25 years -- then Bill Clinton arrived and the left transitioned.
This made me wonder: How Old is Jake Tapper. It turns out he's younger -- at 57 -- than I am but he sounds so ancient.
Yeah goldwater was the canary then nixon
Mind you had westmoreland not ignored sam adams report tet might not have been a surprise
What's a cake boy?
https://x.com/CarolineWren/status/2052819706432594357
Tapper is despondent now that the Virginia gerrymander is no more.
It’s really liking Rubio much more these days than I ever would have imagined.
Fake Rapper.
ciso, that reminds me of the SNL sketch when NJ legalized gay marriage: two gay Mafiosi went on Weekend Update talking about how they had to blow some guys away....CC, JSM
Enigma, thanks for reminding me of the opening-credits scene of George walking on Tom's back. Although I always interpreted it as a short-man joke!
I also remember the Very Special Episode when Tom, aggravated beyond all control, finally used the N-word. Kind of simplistic and one-sided writing to push the 70s liberal agenda, but you could not do even that today. CC, JSM
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