CNN’s Jake Tapper has shown that he is immune to the spin of the Trump administration, and he’s equally resistant to the insults hurled at him by the president’s fans. On Wednesday, he pushed back at a suggestion of a future dirt-digging threat by poking fun at himself with the #tapperdirtfile hashtag. All on the same day that Donald Trump started the “Easy D” craze, so it’s been an interesting one.
Tapper has little patience for Trump’s labeling of his network as “fake news.” He subsequently called out White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for Trump’s immigration ban and managed to get Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway to admit CNN is not fake news. This may not have sat well with some Trump fans, and someone suggested that the GOP might be going after him. Tapper quickly brushed this off.
https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/829309384077561857
And good morning to you too! https://t.co/4udWXKFcPy
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
Tapper then had some fun while airing some of his own “dirty laundry” with the #tapperdirtfile hashtag. Wow, this is some embarrassing stuff if true…
Cut a school assembly in May 1983 to see Return of the Jedi on its first day. #TapperDirtFile #JubJub pic.twitter.com/sbuXAzQBve
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
In high school bought and repeatedly listened to Bruce Willis' album "The Return of Bruno." #TapperDirtFile
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
Has watched every Final Destination movie. Yes, all five of them. #TapperDirtFile
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
George Lazenby is the only real James Bond. #TapperDirtFile
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
Some caught on to what he was doing, and decided to play along, divulging some of Tapper’s deepest, darkest secrets:
Jake Tapper secretly prefers Sammy Hagar over David Lee Roth in Van Halen #TapperDirtFile #ManyPeople are telling me this @jaketapper pic.twitter.com/HiBNtG0XF0
— Pancake Mountain (@pancakemountain) February 8, 2017
Has anybody ever seen his mattress tags?
#TapperDirtFile— Spencer Birkenstock (@Spenbirkenstock) February 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/RealLifeHoser/status/829327390950248449
Jake Tapper once walked into a Starbucks and ordered a "Large Coffee". #TapperDirtFile
— Hali-Facts (@CampaignKaraoke) February 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/829348378840547328
And he didn’t seem all that hurt by other people’s “revelations” about him, although he did a fine job of pretending.
A dirty lie. https://t.co/3G9Y8aXRKF
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!!!!!! https://t.co/hxkLLFysHQ
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
I fell asleep during all three prequels HAVE YOU NO DECENCY SIR?! https://t.co/0cHiNkJiDU
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 8, 2017
.@jaketapper thought Mean Girls deserved a sequel.#TapperDirtFile
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) February 8, 2017
Just keep being you, Mr. Tapper.