Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) put on quite a performance Sunday when she challenged CNN’s Jake Tapper, who is among those condemning President Trump’s threat to destroy Iran. She stated that there will be no genocide or nuclear bombs dropped on Tehran. This situation exemplifies why the media is often ridiculed, disliked, and ignored. They are a group of overly pedantic slugs who still do not understand Trump, which is why he consistently outsmarts them.
Tapper pressed the New York Republican on Trump’s remarks about “wiping out” Iran, asking whether that was good or bad. It was absurd, and Stefanik wasn’t going to let Tapper have the last word on the matter.
WATCH:
Rep. Elise Stefanik just DOG WALKED Jake Tapper on his own show: “This is TYPICAL CNN!”
Tapper tried to claim Trump was calling for genocide against Iran — Stefanik shut it down instantly.
TAPPER: “Is calling for wiping out an entire civilization bad or good?”
STEFANIK: “Of… pic.twitter.com/qm6Vlz4Mye
— Overton (@overton_news) April 19, 2026
TAPPER: “Is calling for wiping out an entire civilization bad or good?”
STEFANIK: “Of course it’s bad! That is not what he is calling for. He wasn’t calling for genocide.”
TAPPER: “You’re entire civilization will die?”
STEFANIK: “It was targeted toward the Iranian terrorist regime.”
TAPPER: “Agree to disagree…”
STEFANIK: “This is typical CNN. This is TYPICAL CNN!”
“If you want to compare the president of the United States to the university presidents who failed to call for the condemnation of calling for the genocide of Jews, that’s on you, Jake.”
“The world saw how morally equivocating those university presidents were.”
“If you want to make that comparison, that’s on CNN.”
TAPPER: “I’m just asking you if you have the same standard for somebody…?”
STEFANIK: “Of course, genocide is bad across the board, Jake.”
“President Trump effectively brought the Iranians to the table.”
“He effectively delivered a ceasefire.”
“And he is going to effectively deliver peace to the Middle East to stop, frankly, the killing [from] the Iranian terrorist regime, which kills their own people and has created havoc across the Middle East.”
Stefanik recently penned a new book, “Poisoned Ivies,” which Tapper plugged, but let’s be honest – this was amateur hour stuff. And she put it right back in his face.
.@EliseStefanik showed how you handle pompous Jake Tapper — you have to throw the smarmy attitude right back https://t.co/ZWN8OevbFn
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 19, 2026
