GODFATHER GLOP: CNN’s Tapper Analogizes Trump To Movie Mob Boss.

Can you imagine Jake Tapper, or any leading light of the liberal media, analogizing, say, Barack Obama to a murderous mob boss?* Rhetorical question. But on CNN’s State of the Union, Tapper did just that regarding President Trump.

Discussing the impending meeting between Trump and Chuck Schumer to discuss the looming government shutdown, Tapper, making a Godfather II analogy, asked Speaker Mike Johnson:

“So at this meeting tomorrow, is President Trump looking to make a deal, or is it going to be like when Michael Corleone met Senator Geary: ‘My offer is this— nothing?” 

Johnson, a very cool customer, didn’t rise to Tapper’s nasty bait. Instead, Johnson responded: “We’ll have to see.”

Of course, if Trump is Corleone, that makes Schumer the utterly corrupt Senator Geary, who was later found in bed with a dead prostitute.

* Actually, I can do just that: CNN Clown to Obama: ‘Go Gangsta Against Your Foes.’

—JammieWearingFool, February 11th, 2010.

The following year, actor Don Cheadle told an interviewer regarding then-President Obama, “I think he inherited an impossible situation. I wish he had not been so much of a consensus-seeker. I just wanted to see a more ‘gangsta’ president.”

In 2014, the Financial Times suggested: Obama needs a gangsta to lay down the law.

And while not specifically gangster and/or gangsta related, this metaphor from CBS Face the Nation host John Dickerson sounds pretty violent as well: “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

—Dickerson at Slate, one of the remaining media redoubts of the Graham family, the former owners of the WaPo, January 18th, 2013.