CNN anchor Jake Tapper called out the Trump administration on Tuesday, saying on his show that headlines about the administration sound like they were ripped straight from satire website The Onion.

In a blistering monologue on "The Lead with Jake Tapper," the host said that "maturity and decency are in the same abundance" under a Trump White House "as electricity and potable water in Puerto Rico."

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"We're back with our politics lead, a politics lead that again today feels less like a politics lead and more like satire," Tapper began the segment, before reading "some actual headlines" from several national news outlets about the Trump administration.

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" 'Trump proposes "IQ tests" faceoff with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a "moron," ' " read Tapper, quoting The Washington Post. "Here's another: 'Trump mocks Bob Corker's height, escalating feud with a key Republican.' And another: 'Self-serving noise: Read Melania Trump's response slamming Ivana Trump's 'First Lady' claim,' " he added, quoting The New York Times and Yahoo! News, respectively.

"Be honest, if I shared those three headlines with you last year, would you not have thought I was quoting The Onion?" Tapper asked, referencing the popular satirical news site. "But no, it's not a parody. That's our current reality, where maturity and decency are in the same abundance as electricity and potable water in Puerto Rico."

Tapper has been critical of President Trump before. In May, the CNN primetime anchor sharply rebuked Trump when he claimed that the news media treats him more "unfairly" than any other president.

“Four U.S. presidents have been actually literally assassinated and killed,” Tapper said in May. “But more broadly speaking, when it comes to a president that has been treated unfairly, I mean that president led the charge claiming that the first African-American president was born in Africa. Which is not only a charge that is false, but is not a little bit racist.”