Posing as Trump's most dogged critic, Tapper has become the face and voice of American regime media.
This July, Millennium Films
announced [3] it is producing an action film based on CNN anchor Jake Tapper's "The Outpost." The book is Tapper's dewy-eyed true life account of 53 American soldiers who bravely fought off an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents from within their Alamo-style fortress in northeastern Afghanistan. Though Tapper
conceded [4] that he covered the war from "the comfort of the North Lawn of the White House," his book won wide praise, including from conservatives like John Hinderaker, who
wrote [5] that it "required an almost unimaginable amount of work-of patriotism." With President Donald Trump announcing a surge of thousands of new troops to Afghanistan, Tapper has provided Hollywood with perhaps the perfect vehicle to stir public sympathy for the troops tasked with continuing the 16-year-old war against the Taliban.
As the host of CNN's highly rated "The Lead," Tapper has branded himself as one of the president's most vehement critics, slamming Trump almost daily for his incompetence and hypocrisy. His indignant attacks on the president have earned him a fawning write-up in Slate as the "
ideal newsman of our age [6]," praise from CNN contributor Van Jones as "a god," and a raft of puff pieces in glossy pop culture magazines. According to
Vogue [7], he is "the internet hero - and journalistic sensation - of the Trump era." Jim Rutenberg, the media critic for the
New York Times,
claimed to GQ [8] that Tapper's popularity stemmed from him "doing very basic fact-checking and calling things out bluntly." Rutenberg added, "He doesn't let anyone off the hook."
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