Jake Tapper Jokes He May Have to Go Back to Cartooning (A History)
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Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday night after being briefly suspended by Disney last week, a decision celebrated by many on Monday night, including Jake Tapper. But the CNN host doesn’t expect President Trump’s attacks on free speech to end with Kimmel, and Tapper’s got a contingency plan for when he himself becomes the target — alongside Seth Meyers.
Andi Ortiz at The Wrap reports on Jake Tapper‘s plan if he is one of the casualties of the Trump administration.
“I don’t think it ends with Kimmel,” he said. “In addition to you, and me, and Jimmy Fallon — who is, I don’t know why he’s in his sights, but also named — ‘SNL,’ whatever. I mean, he’s going to be coming. It doesn’t end, is what I’m saying.”
“And we’ll see what happens when they come for Comcast, and we’ll see what happens when they come for Warner Brothers Discovery,” Tapper continued. “And maybe you and I will be drawing comic books together.” [emphasis added]
Jake has a reason to worry about them coming for CNN as parent company Warner Brothers Discovery is a target for a takeover that would need Trump administration approval.
Jake Tapper’s cartooning joke is not out of the realm of possibility as he has a past in that creative art.
At Dartmouth College Tapper did the Static Cling comic strip for the student paper The Dartmouth.
A few years later while pursuing a career in Washington D.C. he contributed Capitol Hell to Roll Call.
Capitol Hell ran from 1994 to 2003. By 2003 he was beginning his career as a television journalist eventually ending up at CNN where, from around 2015 to 2020, he included his State of the Cartoonion animated cartoon as part of his news show.
Occasionally Tapper returns to cartooning for charity and special occasions.
In 2015 he created a full page of cartoon art for Roll Call’s 60th anniversary. In 2017 he contributed to MAD magazine’s MAD About Trump special edition. In 2016 and 2019 Tapper partnered with Scott Adams on the Dilbert comic strip, not without blowback from fans of both cartoonists.
The Tapper caricature above by Tom Richmond was part of Jake receiving the National Cartoonist Society‘s Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary award in 2018.
So it is not so far-fetched for Tapper to have cartooning as a fall back position.
feature image from a Late Night with Seth Meyers show in 2014
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