How long has the media been trying to get President Donald Trump... 10 years now?
They've failed countless times.
Yet they're still at it. What's that they say about doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result? They keep trying anyway.
On Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper had his head handed to him by Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-21) during an interview on "State of the Union."
Tapper claimed that Trump's comment on April 7 about dealing with the Iranian regime, that their "whole civilization will die," was the same thing as "genocide."
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Rep. Elise Stefanik surged onto Jake Tapper's show and PUMMELED his lies about Trump to his face!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 19, 2026
"TYPICAL CNN! If you want to compare the president to university presidents who failed to call for the condemnation of calls for GENOCIDE of Jews, that's on YOU!" 🔥… pic.twitter.com/iD6wORjukf
TAPPER: Call for genocide on a college campus and a call for genocide made by the president of the United States, like, they're both bad, right?
STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You were putting those words in his mouth. He is engaging in diplomatic back and forth!
TAPPER: Your entire civilization will die?
STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime. You're adding genocide. That's NOT what he's stated! He wasn't calling for genocide. It was targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime. It was targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime.
TAPPER: Agree to disagree (smirking).
Typical CNN Tapper. Stefanik chided him. "If you want to prop up the Iranian terrorist regime, that’s on you," she said.
Trump was using harsh language to reach a terrorist regime, talking in words that would move them, to get them to the negotiating table. That succeeded, as Stefanik noted. The regime believed him; they believed they were in deep trouble; they even deployed "human shields" out to bridges and power plants. Without that threat, he might not have gotten them to the table.
What Jake leaves out, too, is the context of his comments in that same tweet. Trump followed the "civilization" comment by talking about the regime's "47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end," and "God bless the Great People of Iran!" So obviously, he was talking about taking out the regime, the evil "civilization" they had imposed on the people, and helping the people in so doing, just as Stefanik said.
Trump had also spent much of the day before talking passionately about the people of Iran and all they had gone through, so that also put paid to Tapper's assertion. He's spoken repeatedly about the bravery of the Iranian people who resist the regime.
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If Trump had wanted to commit "genocide," he wouldn't have spent all this time trying to push the regime to a deal.
But it is a common thing with media like CNN to strip away the context and spin. We've seen it over and over again against Trump for 10 years - and counting.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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