Jake Tapper Claps Back at Trump After President’s Name-Calling Rant Against Fellow CNN Host Kaitlan Collins

Zachary Leeman Dec 6th, 2025, 3:26 pm

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Jake Tapper hit back at President Donald Trump over a rant against Tapper’s CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins in which he called her “stupid” and “nasty” over a question he didn’t like.

In a Truth Social rant posted on Saturday morning Trump blasted “fake news” CNN and raged against Collins — misspelling her name in the process — over a question about his White House ballroom costing more money than originally projected.

The president wrote :

Caitlin Collin’s of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally thought one year ago. I said

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