
Tucker Carlson Turns on Trump, Apologizes for “Misleading” Voters
Tucker Carlson said he’s sorry he helped President Donald Trump get elected.
The right-wing firebrand and former Fox News host expressed regret on his show Monday, saying that his role in campaigning for Trump in 2015 will “torment” him “for a long time” and he’s sorry for “misleading” people into voting for him.
“We’re implicated in this for sure,” Carlson said in a conversation with his brother, Buckley Carlson, pointing out that Tucker campaigned on the president’s behalf, and Buckley actually wrote his speeches.
Tucker said that he and his brother would have to “wrestle with our own consciences” over the issue.
During the show, Tucker criticized the president for reneging on his promise of “no new wars,” referring to his 2024 campaign, when he said, “I’m not going to start a war, I’ll stop wars.”
Tucker accused Trump of being “fully aware that it was a betrayal of his explicit promises for 10 years not to do this.”
Tucker sneered at the president’s management of the war. Trump “clearly had no plan” going into the war, he said.
Tucker stopped short of invoking the 25th Amendment, which authorizes Congress to remove a president from office if he becomes unable to fulfill his duties, but Buckley went full steam ahead. He said the president is an “out-of-control, megalomaniacal, destructive president” and called for Congress to remove Trump from office, saying it isn’t “crazy” to endorse the 25th Amendment when the country is “suffering great and lasting damage, which it seems to be.”
This is Tucker’s harshest denunciation of Trump to date. While he has frequently criticized Trump’s policies, he has refrained from attacking Trump directly — until now. Is this war?