Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’
“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time – I will be,” Tucker Carlson said. “And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that’s all I’ll say.”
Though Carlson in 1999 had referred to Trump as “the single most repulsive person on the planet”, he beat most pundits in calling for Trump to be taken seriously before he won his first presidency in 2016.
Trump recently published a social media post calling Carlson “a Low IQ person – Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!!”
FFS now I agree with Trump ?
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In a few months, these people will have always been against Trump, and they'll hate us when we call them on it, because despite everything they've done so far, they still think they're better off than with a Democrat in charge.
Tucker Carlson doesn't disagree with anything Trump has done, he's just smart enough to tell when to jump ship. This is a strategic move
Eh, we have leaked emails from Fox news where Tucker did say he hated Trump and thought he was an idiot during the first admin, not that it stopped him from gargling his balls.
Yeah exactly, because Trump lacks any strategy. Just look how little manufacturing consent went into the Iran war compared to the Iraq war. Trump is so idiotic he says the quiet part out loud because He's too stupid to understand the point of dog whistles. Carlson wants a competent White Nationalist administration, his issue is with the incompetency.
But even so, whenever in public view, Carlson is very very deliberate and strategic with how he communicates white nationalism sentiments to his audience. He knows exactly the right way to broach topics, which words to hit, ect, in order to get the audience (be it MAGA or Liberals) on his side.
"I would have voted for Jim Webb" is a thing I've heard conservative asshats tell me on a regular basis.
No raindrop thinks they're to blame for the flood.
No raindrop is. The flood is a consequence of the land's ability to drain water relative to the size of the deluge. Blaming individual raindrops is foolish.
My bad for posting a metaphor on Lemmy. Are you doing a bit right now, like autism blackface or something? Did the Big Bang Theory send you?
Maybe he's doing a metaphor too? I keep trying to piece it together: "so like the landscape, yeah, is like america, right? No wait, is it democracy? Hmm... Is this guy just talking about actual stormwater mitigation?"
It honestly is funny to me either way, because it reads like he's being straight faced talking a out stormwater mitigation.
But I do think it's intended to point out a lot of the morons that voted for trump did so for some real reasons, very misguided (and intentionally so by the right wing news apparatus) but real reasons.
Nah I'm pretty sure I'm just a lifelong social misfit who only befriends the neurodivergent and can't handle repetitive noises, same as any regular guy really.
I too am very intelligent.
Saw a clip earlier that was coincidentally perfectly topical here: https://imgur.com/gallery/they-knew-they-all-knew-0HTmIvw
I'll take it. Admitting a mistake is the first step in healing.
The first step in healing is recognizing you even have a wound i guess, but next is cleaning out the wound. Americans have typically just skipped this step in the past and gone straight to believing that recognition was the healing.
Tormented... like, by demons ?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tucker-carlson-draws-scorn-for-new-details-over-demonic-attack-im-not-embarrassed/ar-AA1Qcy3F
These fucking religious nutbag grifters
Anyone else seeing the almost perfect irony of a Christian news publication's name converting to CP?
what an unfortunate name.
They should rename themselves to Christian Sermon Announcement Mail
what if this is how they explain trump over the next 10 years (barring complete take over) - demonic attack (bonus points if they work AI into the narrative).
Sounds crazy when my brain is framed as it was five years ago, but sounds disgustingly plausible in 2026.
Tucker Carsalesman:
Jesus christ he was around in 2003 ?!
EDIT: HOLY SHIT WHAT?!
CNN (2000–2005) PBS (2004–2005) MSNBC (2005–2008) Fox News (2009–2023)
Young Tucker Carsalesman ::: spoiler Image :::
Looks a lot like Young Sheldon 😂
Fuck him, fuck them all. They knew exactly what they were doing and getting into. But once there's signs that the ship is sinking they all jump off like the rats they are. And if not and that's a big if not, then maybe he is just a "Low IQ person".
He was just sticking up for trump last week. I think it was over Iran. This is temporary and for the left to have something to be distracted from. Trump is in the low 30s in approval, that's covid bad.
"It was not intentional."
Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you. Don't you dare try to retcon your selfish, evil, greedy contributions to the suffering of thousands (millions?). No quarter for anyone who harbored these selfish fucks.
Tucker can stuff his apology, this isn't buyer's regret, his influence was outsized because of his platform and led to disastrous results.
"I regret that my grift is no longer profitable."
He's been a bullshit peddler for his entire career. These are crocodile tears and fake regrets.
I think it's the same regret that most of the smart cons have. They're grifters who kept lying and lying to continue their grift, but the eventual outcome was a demented narcissist in office who went out of control and disrupted many of the grifts they were doing in the first place.
They wanted just another smart grifter in office, but years of convincing the dumbest parts of the US voting electorate led to a Frankenstein's monster.
When the rats start jumping off the sinking ship, remember they're still rats.
In case of Tucker, unless he's ready to dump previously unknown information on his (former) cohorts, I don't think he can be forgiven. He's not some small figure, a leftist content creator that did a few mistakes in his career, or a former edgy teen obsessed with "funny slurs", he is a very well known right-wing talking head.
He’s not trying to pivot, which so many people in this thread are misunderstanding.
The problem with Trump is that he is bowing to Israel, and Tucker is a full Nazi now. This is patently clear if you listen to him. As someone who’s followed Nazi forums for like two decades now, he is speaking Nazi on his show. He is running down all of the absolutely classic Holocaust denier bits.
Forgiveness is for our selves, change must be accepted 🧘
“And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that’s all I’ll say.”
Have you ever seen a quote, and wanted the person to repeat it to you face to face?
While I'm holding a brick, yes
Knowledge Fight: #1135: Tucker, The Man And His Holocaust Questions. 19.4.26
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Jon Stewart Single handily taking Cross Fire off the air when Tucker Carlson was a host. Its amazing. The show was cancelled a few months after this interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
"I didn't vote for this!"
I guess he's just not making as much money / as popular as when he was on TV and hates not being in the spotlight. He doesn't give a rat's ass about Trump and never has.
No he is much more popular. He's just aligning with most of the anti-Zionist anti-trump population in America.
I mean, I'm anti-zionist and anti-trump but I'm certainly not going to start giving him views.
Never forget what they did, my American compatriots. Never forget.
They lied. They gaslit. They tried to break us.
Never forget.
Every supporter must be held accountable.
Seppuku time, Mr.Carlson.
Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz supporters all talk like this.
He made money supporting him, he’s making money going against him.
Tucker is the leopard.
Suffer in silence then.
I need this on a T-shirt
Get fucked Tucker Carlson. Make the world a better place and do a Budd Dwyer.
Millionaire media figures who spend decades pushing an agenda are 'tormented', sure
eat shit Fucker.
And wash it down with a pint of strong, cold piss.
nothing less for an avid shiteaters dining club member.
Looks like the right wing grift isn't working for this twat anymore and he wants to see if he can apologize his way into left wing grifting, or maybe just back into polite society.
Sorry bud, the average IQ on this side of the aisle is too high.
Not left wing grifting. His most recent stuff has been platforming Nazi dog whistles for Holocaust denial.
I think the hope is that Trump dies, and Vance plays their fascist demagogue.
putins right wing grifters(poole, shapiro, peterson,,,,etc, even roegan) seem awfully quiet as of late, they are waiting how to pivot against trump while maintaining the grift of the right.
Tormented he's not invited to the party.
I hate that motherfucker so much.
tucker probably got a leaked epstein file that detailed what trump did to the Green M&M when she was a Mini M&M and is on the warpath now.
Tucker is going full fash. Time for him to huddle around Fuentes for that good ol' hellfire warmth, with all the clicks, views, and ad revenue that audience brings...oh and hate...so much hate. Tucker knows (and hates) his audience so well.
I want to see the end of Trump as much as the next person, but you'd have to be blind to not see what's coming next.
tucker was on kirk's show just before he was killed, apparently the backer who was funding TPUSA did not like tucker/Owens on his interviews.
They are seeing that the end is finally coming into focus, and not only is MAGA going to be on the losing side, it's quickly becoming inevitable. And that end is going to be very, very ugly, with a lot of prison sentences, and perhaps even some death sentences.
So the slyest rats are starting to jump ship, while there is still a chance to grab some floating debris to escape on. He's just the first of many to follow.
The People lose. Always.
The few may go to jail for a bit. But they will live better in jail than millions of people they stole from.
They stole the present and the future, while trying to rewrite the past.
The society and economy left in the aftermath of these cancerous personalities is going to piss me off on the daily.
Well, you sure are the hopefull sort... me? Not so much. Who do you forsee going to jail? I doubt anyone is getting more than a slap on the wrist, or much more than a Tucker Carlson style "I guess we shouldnt have done that... but we didnt mean it" style apology, if that. Death sentence? Hahaha not happening.
But heres to you mate! Never wished I was on the wrong side of a discussion more than now.
YOU are the problem. If you keep telling politicians that you expect them to do nothing, that's exactly what they'll do. They just go back to their insider trading, and ignore you, like you told them to do. Don't give them permission to be incompetent.
We should be telling them every chance we get that we will absolutely NOT tolerate their political cowardice any longer. We are in the mood for change, and we will gladly swap out any recalcitrant Democrats, right along with the MAGAs.
And they are getting the message. Last Fall, as Americans were going hungry, they stuck with the shutdown, until it hit the airports, and their wealthy campaign donors couldn't maneuver their operatives around the country. So the Dems fully surrendered, with nothing in return, and the Dem voters went NUTS, and it scared them, especially Jeffries. Schumer is too blinded by his greed and allegiance to Israel to umderstand how much he is despised. When this is over, he deserves a noose as much as any MAGA.
So this time when the shutdown hit the airports, the Dems knew to just let it play out, and it was glorious. It only hurt those flying during Spring Break, which is mostly rich people anyway. They were forced to stand in line for hours, contemplating the wisdom of their MAGA vote. This time the shutdown hurt MAGA as intended, and it continues to hurt them.
We need to apply a LOT more pain on both sides, and make them FEAR our massive angry numbers more than they fear the tiny minority of wealthy. Then we can force them to submit to our demands when we take the government back.
The way to cause pain on both sides is to primary the Democrats who aren't helping and vote against all Republicans because none of them are helping. If you vote against Democrats in the general election, you are not causing pain to both sides. You're telling Republicans to continue.
Valid.
Lol. Would you like a unicorn with your side of nonsense?
Nothing is going to happen to these people. Not a damn thing. They will continue to be rich off of the money they stole and will grow old before dying in their mansions surrounded by family that think memaw and pop pop are great people.
Whats it take to make you people finally understand?
YOU are the problem. If you keep telling politicians that you expect them to do nothing, that's exactly what they'll do. They just go back to their insider trading, and ignore you, like you told them to do. Don't give them permission to be incompetent.
We are in unprecedented times, and we will require unprecedented solutions. We absolutely cannot fall back on the same morally and legally bankrupt political policies traditions that led us here. If we manage to recover Congress and the White House AGAIN, then they will have the obligation to follow the mandate of the voters, and DO THEIR JOB!
It's not like they'll have a choice. The government is in tatters now, imagine what it will be like in 2 years? The government will need to be completely rebuilt. Thousands of government workers will be invited back to their jobs. Entire agencies will have to be reformed, and MAGA hires and appointees investigated and fired or indicted. Nobody hired by MAGA can remain.
As long as we have to rebuild, we can go in any direction we want. We don't have to rebuild the same broken system that brought us to this point.
And we absolutely can't allow them to let MAGA off the hook, "for the good of the country." America can't recover, and can't redeem itself in the eyes of its Citizens, the World, and History, until MAGA has been decisively crushed, and purged from our government, and society.
This means as little as Glenn Beck's apology.
Who?
Heh heh
Nah, fuck you tucker fuck, we don't forgive, we don't forget. You were and still are part of a problem.
I’m torn. Obviously the likes of Carlson and Rogen et. al. need to answer for their support. On the other hand, I’m not sure making them wear a hairshirt or scarlet “T” for the rest of their lives– while warranted– actually gets us closer to where we need to be, which is free of Trump and the other despots.
How they are punished is less about how impactful it will be for them than it is about setting an example for the next generation of dumb, greedy assholes who might be aiming to follow in their footsteps. “Hmm. After seeing what they do to Tucker Carlson, maybe I’ll put down my God Hates Fags sign…”
Deterrent is a good argument, but I still don't know. If we don't get rid of Trump and other fascists, there isn't even the prerequisite power to make an example of anyone.
Flip side of that coin is "After seeing what they do to Tucker Carlson [when he changes his mind], why would I change my mind."
I am not torn at all. If he truly regrets misleading his audience, he’d be revolting against his oppressor. Yet Carlson isn't arming the public, freeing the encamped, or housing the “illegals.” This is as PR stunt to continue his oppressive stochastic terrorism network.
I'm not torn as it pertains to Carlson. I too think he needs to do more than a simple "oops, my bad." I'm just aware of the fact that while we cannot excuse past actions, drawing too hard a line when acknowledging remorse can have adverse consequences.
I don't see remorse. I see a crocodile tearing he’s about to get lunch. Or a leopard tearing he packed with the wrong alpha.
Maybe. But “your remorse isn’t real” is the type of hard line I’m talking about.
Oh for sure, true remorse must be demonstrated, which is still my point. There’s not a singular step Carlson has done to show us he regrets his actions, and does not want to continue them.
Nobody here buys his lies. Getting us to trust him again is a cliff he will have to climb up. And no American has proven it to me yet.
It is funny when the moron fucks others, like latinos blacks and asians, but then he fucked with my mates! He cryed.
Fuck you Tucker, fuck You.
no he isnt, its like magats regretting voting for trump, or caitlyn jenner wants help soley for her trans problem. or roegan trying to play a never trumper.
Aww, poor Tucker. I doubt he's lost a single moment of sleep over it.
Honestly, who gives a fuck. Disappear Tucker, you empty suit.
He always knew this. He made a deal with the devil because he thought it would hurt his enemies more.
It's the explanation for every right winger: you're either a moron, or evil, thought most commonly a good mix of both.
The ones in the former camp need to repeatedly "learn from their mistakes". Unless you're in the latter category, one would think that any reasonable person should think "maybe opinions on how to do things is better left to others", but alas, a lack of such processes is a requirement for the moron bit.
Curious picture with the article there. The 'tormented man' has the Charlie Kirk smile.
That's what I look like when it's really bright out and someone tells me to look at the camera, smile, and hold it.
Of course it was intentional, but I bet he does regret it.
BULLSHIT!
It's all bullshit.
Idk how true the story that the white house used Tucker to assuage Iran's worries before the war is. But everything points to it being true.
The damage is made, but maybe he'll be able to turn his conservative fan base against Trump!
Like he would have backed anybody else instead
Tucker Carlson stopped being your average grifter and started being a genuine national security threat when he literally fucking went to Moscow and personally interviewed Putin about the genocide he's committing in Ukraine
I stopped listening to him when he quit wearing the bow tie
Countdown to Tucker announcing that he's running for president.
He is waking up some of the magats and exposing Israeli crimes. Nobody on the left could have reached these people so that I appreciate. I also think he’s doing real investigative journalism by doing interviews with people nobody on the left would have access to.
Because that Putin interview was a barn burner. This guy is an asshat. Always has been and always will. He knows how to swing with the wind, that is all.
The most reprehensible thing Carlson popularized is replacement theory: "It is an act of war for some (democrat leaning) people to have children". The dominant form of Christofascim is Zionist supremacist over Christianity - Only warmongering divine right old testament values. And replacement theory is critical to stronger zionist supremacist rule over America, because it is the muslims that are the most uppity about genocide and warmongering.
Can just literally torment this guy already because of all the harm he's done?
You know that thing from The Da Vinci Code where Paul Bettany whipped himself?
I'll take 5000 hours of that, Carlson. Flog yourself for 5000 continuous hours without food, water or sleep, then I will allow you to reclaim the rank of Human.