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.
Note: When Johnson said that as part of the budget deal, Schumer "wants to reinstate free health care for illegal aliens," Tapper initially responded: "I think he would take issue with that."
But later, Tapper tried in his own right to refute Johnson's claim: "So, just as a point of fact, it's against the law for noncitizens to get those subsidies."
Note Tapper's euphemism for illegal aliens: "noncitizens."
Johnson pushed back: "Yes, it is illegal for illegal aliens to receive health care paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. But they're making the demand to change that."
Here's the transcript.
CNN
State of the Union
9/28/25
9:02 am EDTJAKE TAPPER: A few days ago, President Trump rejected even meeting with Democratic leaders, reportedly at the urging of you and the Senate Majority Leader John Thune. What changed?
MIKE JOHNSON: Well, I had a long talk with the president yesterday, Jake, and he feels the same way that I do about this. He's always open to discussion, but he wants to operate in good faith.
So he decided to bring us all in. He wants to talk with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, and just try to convince them to follow common sense and do what's right by the American people. Jake, it's important to point out the only thing we are trying to do is buy a little time. You know, the appropriators in both parties have been working very diligently over the last many weeks to work through the appropriations process.
. . .
But here's the problem. We run out of clock, because the end of this, September 30th is the end of the fiscal year. So what we did was a simple, clean, continuing resolution. It's 24 pages in length. All it does is keep the government open so appropriators can continue to do this work together, bipartisan.
Chuck Schumer came back with a long laundry list of partisan demands that don't fit into this process, and he's going to try to shut the government down. The president wants to talk with him about that and say, please, don't do that.
TAPPER: 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: [Chuckles.] Well, we'll have to see.
But I can tell you where his head and his heart are. He wants to do right by the people. He does not want the Democrats to hold up troops' pay, you know, the people who serve in the military. They don't get paid during a shutdown. He doesn't want WIC funding, you know, Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition program being held up. He doesn't want telehealth and mental health and FEMA services to be stopped. That's what Chuck Schumer is holding hostage. Why? So that he can add $1.5 trillion in new spending at a time when we're simply just trying to keep the government going for seven weeks so we can have those debates. It's wrong.
He also wants to, by the way, what Chuck Schumer is demanding in exchange for all those good things I just listed, he wants to reinstate free health care for illegal aliens paid by American taxpayers. We are not doing that. We can't do that. That's just one of the crazy things he's requesting.
TAPPER: Well, I think he would take issue with that.
