NCS Host Jake Tapper has eviscerated President Donald Trump over his newest “unsettling” and “incoherent” White House look.
The 79-year-old marked the primary anniversary of his second time period in workplace with a 104-minute marathon news conference on Tuesday that included wielding a e-book of his “accomplishments,” which he dramatically tossed on the ground.
Tapper stated Trump’s efficiency was “rambling, at times incoherent, possibly unsettling.”
During the curious convention, Trump admitted he needed to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Trump, however stated, “I thought I would be killed if I did that.” He additionally waved mugshots of individuals arrested by ICE and bragged that the daddy of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE agent this month, was a “fan” of his.
NCS host Jake Tapper takes on Donald Trump on The Lead. / display screen seize
“For any supporters of his looking for reassurance that the Trump doing wild 1:00 a.m social media posts is not the same Trump in the White House, well, they were probably not reassured,” Tapper stated.
The epic information briefing adopted a slew of Truth Social posts wherein the president shared obvious non-public textual content messages he had acquired from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO chief Mark Rutte, questioning his calls for to regulate Greenland and calling for his political opponents to be jailed.
Tapper identified that Trump’s “monologue” on the White House started by complaining about his public relations picture, noting that it was “a common complaint of politicians who have horrific poll numbers.”
Trump’s meandering dialogue additionally lined the continued ICE raids in Minnesota. The president claimed that Minnesota is “a very corrupt place, and the elections are totally corrupt. I feel I won it all three times.”
Donald Trump waves his e-book of ‘Accomplishments’ on the White House. / SAUL LOEB / AFP through Getty Images
Tapper stated, “He feels he won all three times,” earlier than quoting conservative broadcaster Ben Shapiro’s saying, “Facts don‘t care about your feelings.”
Tapper added, “President Trump lost Minnesota all three times fair and square every time. Not really surprising. Minnesota has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1972.”
The Lead host also mentioned Trump’s “frankly bizarre, rambling moments,” through the look the place he complained about his predecessor Joe Biden. Tapper additionally stated Trump is “weaponizing” the federal government.
“The U.S. Justice Department, right now under Trump, is investigating the governor and the attorney general of Minnesota and the mayors of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, for what we don‘t know,” Tapper stated. “But opposing Trump has a way of landing you in the sights of his Justice Department.”
NCS’s senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes stated Trump believes he’s his personal greatest spokesman. She referenced Trump’s use of the pseudonym “John Barron” within the ’80s and ’90s to pose as his own publicist when contacting the media to advertise himself.
“You heard a lot of frustration from him today,” Holmes stated. “He has seen all of the same poll numbers that we have seen. Just a reminder, it‘s not just public polling, they have their own internal polling. They know that people are unhappy with President Trump‘s handling of the economy in particular. They are also unhappy overall, but especially when it comes to the economy.”
Holmes, who was within the room for the not-so-brief briefing, stated “it did not seem as though these were prepared remarks in any way.”
The White House had given media a “huge stack of paper” earlier than the occasion that was headed “365 accomplishments and 365 days.”
President Donald Trump speaks to the media within the White House briefing room concerning the administration’s accomplishments on the anniversary of his first 12 months of his second time period in workplace, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. / Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Imag
“President Trump seemed to be kind of thumbing through it in real time, stopping reading various things from there and then elaborating on them… often going off script, talking about elections in Minnesota or fraud or a litany of other things,” she stated.
Holmes summed up the convention as “just an airing of grievances for an hour and 45 minutes as he wrapped up his first year.”
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for remark.