President Trump applauded 32-year-old Stephen Miller for completing the two-pronged mission of going on CNN and yelling at Jake Tapper for the network’s Trump coverage – while criticizing the president’s newest enemy, Steve Bannon, as well.
‘Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration,’ Trump wrote. ‘Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!’
Tapper grew tired of Miller repeating pro-Trump and anti-Bannon talking points and called the aide’s constant interruptions ‘hysterical,’ as he cut the interview short by announcing, ‘I think you have wasted enough of my viewers’ time.’
The president applauded his 32-year-old aide Stephen Miller, who got tossed off of CNN today after a contentious interview with Jake Tapper where he criticized the network’s coverage of the White House and slapped around Steve Bannon
Stephen Miller went on CNN Sunday to attack Steve Bannon, who the president is fighting with, and he laid into Jake Tapper for the network’s coverage of President Trump as well
CNN’s Jake Tapper (right) ended his interview with Trump aide Stephen Miller (left) by labeling him ‘hysterical’ and saying that he had wasted enough of Tapper’s audience’s time
When Tapper returned from commercial break, the journalist began the second part of his show by saying, ‘Welcome back to State of the Union and planet Earth.’
The interview began courteously enough with Tapper wishing Miller a ‘happy new year.’
It went downhill from there.
Tapper asked Miller about allegations laid out in the new book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’ by Michael Wolff.
Bannon, Tapper reminded Miller, had criticized the Trump Tower meeting between Russians and campaign staff, saying, ‘The chance that Don Jr. didn’t walk these Jumos up to his father’s office on the 26th floor is zero.’
Tapper wanted to know if Miller had any first-hand knowledge of the now-president meeting with the Russians who visited in Manhattan office building in June 2016.
Miller took the cue to lash out at Bannon.
‘Steve Bannon’s eloquence in that description notwithstanding, it’s tragic and unfortunate that Steve would make these grotesque comments, so out of touch with reality and obviously so vindictive,’ Miller said.
‘And the whole White House staff is deeply disappointed in his comments, which were grotesque,’ he said, using the adjective again.
Bannon, Miller said, wasn’t even there.
‘It reads like an angry, vindictive person spouting off to a highly discredible author,’ Miller continued, pivoting to lash out at Wolff too.
‘The book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction,’ Miller added. ‘And I also will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book.’