Tapper Mocks Hannity’s Failed Troll: ‘Guess It Didn’t Work Out The Way He Intended’

CNN’s Jake Tapper sat down with Seth Meyers on Tuesday night to talk about among many things covering the Trump administration as well as one-sided Twitter feud that Fox News’s Sean Hannity ignited.

When asked to weigh in on President Trump‘s decision to rescind DACA, Tapper believes Trump “doesn’t fully understand” all the campaign promises he made when they actually become policy.

Meyers complimented the CNN anchor for being “critical” of this president as well as previous presidents, pointing out Tapper’s acknowledgment that DACA, which was an Obama-era policy, was on “shaky grounds” in terms of constitutionality. He also mentioned how Tapper is seen as a “voice of reason” by the left, but they didn’t feel that way when President Obama was in office.

“I don’t expect this is going to last, you know once when the Chelsea Clinton administration begins. Or Oprah,” Tapper quipped.

Meyers then brought up Hannity’s attempt to get his viewers to attack Tapper on Twitter for being “fake news.” 

“That was so weird,” Tapper recalled. “I’m just reading Twitter before I go to bed and ‘Oh my G-d- Sean Hannity has apparently told his viewers, not just his Twitter followers but his viewers, to go on Twitter and tell me what they think of me.'”

Tapper told Meyers that it ended up being “completely different” than he thought it was going to be.

“People were very positive!” Meyers exclaimed.

“It was like 1,000 to 1!” Tapper reacted. “It was all these tweets like ‘Jake Tapper, Sean Hannity wants me to tell you what I think. I think he’s a hack and I think you’re the best!… Yeah so I guess it didn’t work out the way I guess Mr. Hannity intended.”

Tapper went on to talk about the job of the media, which is to “hold [administrations] accountable, and hold them responsible, and point out when they lie and when they say things that can’t possibly be true, and be aggressive.”

“We’re not supposed to be their friends,” Tapper added. “For eight years, I wasn’t President Obama’s friend and now I’m not President Trump’s friend.”

He also criticized some in conservative media who think it’s “rebellious” to cozy up to power because it “wasn’t cool” when people on the left did that to Obama.

Watch the clip above, via NBC.