Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented by it’
www.theguardian.com
Podcaster admits he ‘misled’ supporters as his rift with the US president deepens over the Iran war

“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 ?

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    7 days ago

    Tucker Carsalesman:

    • 2003: “Please Buy the Iraq War”
    • 2015: “I regret selling you the Iraq War, please buy this Trump”
    • 2026: “I Regret selling you this Trump, please buy this white nationalism”
  • laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
    42·
    7 days ago

    “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.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    21·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • Loce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Nah, fuck you tucker fuck, we don’t forgive, we don’t forget. You were and still are part of a problem.

  • ichwillhierraus@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    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.