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There was a time when Tucker Carlson at 7pm (central time) on Fox News was a must-watch in my house. Now he’s apologizing for supporting Donald Trump, and I’m trying to figure out what on earth happened.
Tucker talking about his regret for ever supporting Donald Trump isn’t a casual walk-back. He says he misled people, not intentionally, and he now has to live with regret for ever supporting Donald Trump.
TUCKER CARLSON: “I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.”
This is a very humble and honest statement. Big respect to Tucker. pic.twitter.com/dyMgrsRAP8
— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) April 21, 2026
When Tucker Carlson “left” Fox News, it didn’t come with much warning. Fox never gave a real explanation. They didn’t have to, but that silence says more than any explanation would.
After parting ways with Fox, Tucker did what a lot of others did before him. He built his own platform. Megyn Kelly did it. Don Lemon did it. Joy Reid did it. Different politics, same move, I see a pattern.
And the political podcasters are not the only ones breaking with Donald Trump. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie have their own beefs with the President, too.
At this point, I feel like a broken record by continually talking about this.
We can point to policy disagreements. Israel. Iran. But that doesn’t really explain the sudden hard turn that seemed to come out of nowhere with these new-old influencers like Tucker and Megyn.
So what changed? Did Donald change, or did they?
The thing I think about Tucker Carlson and have always thought about him is that if your mom abandons your family when you are an adolescent boy, that’s gonna mess with your head. For that reason, I think he pokes the bear. I think there is comfort for him in being disliked.
— Sasha Stone (@realsashastone) November 7, 2025
At this point, I have to ask, has the podcast and pundit world turned into one big game of contradiction? Say one thing, then say the opposite, and call it growth while the audience argues about it?
Obviously, these aren’t random voices on the internet. These are people who helped share opinions, stood on the stage with Donald, praised his name, and helped steer the conversation.
And now you want to say you regret everything?
Tucker Carlson says he feels sorry for Donald Trump, describing him as “hemmed in” and unable to make his own decisions. That’s a serious claim there, Tucker. It suggests Trump isn’t actually in control.
During an interview with his brother Buckley Carlson – a Republican Party operative who previously wrote speeches for Trump – Carlson expressed regret for having publicly supported the president, who has repeatedly attacked him in recent months.
“You wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him. I mean, we’re implicated in this, for sure,” said Carlson to his brother on The Tucker Carlson Show. “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well I changed my mind,’ or like, ‘Oh this is bad, I’m out.’ It’s like in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.”
“Yes,” Buckley replied.
The former Fox News host continued, “So I do think it’s like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Carlson in recent months in response to his former ally becoming increasingly critical of the Trump administration – most notably its handling of the Epstein files and the president’s war against Iran.
This month, the president called Carlson “a Low IQ person,” “stupid,” and “highly overrated” in several Truth Social rants attacking him, as well as other former allies, including Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, and Candace Owens.
Responding to Trump’s attacks this month, Carlson remarked, “I’ve always liked Trump and still feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves… He’s hemmed in by other forces. He can’t make his own decisions. It’s awful to watch.” – Mediaite
Tucker says Trump can’t make his own decisions. He says it like it’s a fact. Like he has insight the rest of us aren’t privy to. Of course, he doesn’t show his work. He just puts it out there and suddenly the conversation isn’t about what Trump did, it’s about whether he’s even in control.
But Tucker also thinks Donald J. Trump is the Antichrist.
I don’t know what finally pushed Tucker Carlson to regret supporting Donald Trump. Maybe it’s Israel. Maybe it’s Iran. Maybe it’s all the gold decor in the White House.
He’s allowed to change his convictions. That’s part of being an American. But when the shift is this big and ugly, people are going to ask questions. Maybe that’s Tucker’s whole point, to sow doubt. It seems to be the popular thing to do these days with these people who sit around and pontificate into a microphone.
People aren’t wrong to ask why the sudden shift. These voices matter because people listen. And when you spend years telling people one thing and then turn around and apologize for it, don’t act surprised when people start asking questions.
When the message shifts like this, it creates confusion. And confusion isn’t bad for business. It keeps the audience engaged, keeps the conversation going, and keeps the podcast microphone front and center. It takes the focus off of Donald Trump and keeps the focus on the podcaster. Cha-ching!
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Joe R. says: Posturing, and Impostering.
ur inacult says: I love that you completely ignore tuckers reasoning and just focus on the fact that he doesn’t support dufus in charge. Pull the shades back, it’s bright outside with actual truths.
Ryan Murphy says: Tucker has no reasoning. None whatsoever. Precisely nothing he is now saying makes sense. Tucker is exactly the fool he appears not a truth teller.
Turtler says: Ok, I’ll address Cucker Tardlson’s reasoning.
And his reasoning is a mosh pit of incoherent bullshit, outright lies, and hypocrisy with a hefty amount of Jew Hate. This fool openly advocated for nuking Iran (something even I the evil neocon colonialist imperialist warmonger do not support and would not support except in true doomsday fire-or-get-WMD’d-by-Last-Imam-Apocalypse-Cult scenarios). You want us to pretend that he suddenly has a coherent moral or ethical opposition to bombing Islamo-Fascist terrorists and mass murderers?
No. He does not. In much the same way his stance on Israel has done an almost but not quite 180 degree turn and has shades over into blatant gaslighting such as that Israel knowingly attacked the USS Liberty (something that has literally negative evidence for it due to NSA audio intercepts that Ward Boston was stupid enough to put on his site until he realizes anyone fluent in Hebrew would realize it destroys his case, leading to an attempt to scrub said audio) or that Israel provides no benefit to the US, pls ignore the intel sharing, military tech exchange, etc.
(Whether or not that help is justifiable for our level of involvement is a real question worth debating. I think they are, but that is at least something people can debate honestly. But an idiot blooming away most of a century of sharing the best captured WarPac tech from multiple Arab League attempts at genocide so we could take the USSR’s tech apart and check it is not honest.)
Here’s an actual truth. Iran’s current management has hated us for even longer than they have hated Israel. They were kidnapping our diplomats and planning to blow up our marines at precisely the time they were conducting joint air strike ops with the Israelis against Osirak. They literally seek to cause the apocalypse so that the Mahdi can arise from a well in Qom and make all die or bend the knee. They must be destroyed for our own salvation, let alone anyone else’s interest like that of Israel or the non insane demographics in Iran.
CDC says: Why would the antichrist need or want speech writers.We could spend a lot of time listing personal and societal behaviors that cause torment,doubt and pain and the antichrist responsible for that resides in the individual. Tucker is in a downward spiral having given up control of himself to his own personal antichrist.
Cameron says: Middle Eastern money is just too sweet to pass up.
Paul Yarbrough says: I think that Tucker (like many) realizes that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Biden, the laughingstock and Trump, the clown.
Brother John says: The laziest, dumbest, most low IQ take possible.
Turtler says: Firstly: any fool claiming this has obviously not studied Trump’s energy policies, school choice policies, or clampdowns on left wing grift and Jihadist terrorism or AntifA. And thus needs to Sit Down.
Secondly: Tucker is going after Trump for what Trump disagreed with the Obama/Biden goon squad on, namely trying to elevate the Mullahcracy.
Thirdly: Even if I completely ignored the aforementioned, this does farq all to explain why Tucker Carlson had this “revelation” now, when he began openly co-operating with Communists and Qatar.
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The Gent says: Go Dawgs!
CrookedRecords says: Did everyone forget who Trump was running against? Trump could literally drop a nuke on a major US city and still not cause as much economic damage or loss of human life as a Biden or Kamala presidency would have.
DK says: Buckley is Tuckers son not his brother.
Turtler says: They’re both. There’s a Buckley that is Tucker’s brother and a Buckley that is Tucker’s son.
Mercutio says: At some time in the past year or two, his brain was swapped with Fetterman’s.
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