Tucker Carlson denies calling Trump the 'Antichrist' in New York Times interview
In a New York Times interview published Saturday, Tucker Carlson denied telling anyone Donald Trump was the 'Antichrist' and said he never used that wording. Carlson framed his public split with Trump around a policy rift over Iran, saying disagreement on military action drove their fallout. He acknowledged regret for his past interview with Nick Fuentes while stressing political ties to figures like J.D. Vance and attacking Marco Rubio. The interview matters because Carlson is reshaping his public standing, distancing from Trump while addressing controversies that influence conservative politics ahead of 2024.
a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”
Andrew Lawrence243these are not complicated people, they want money and influence and everything they do is in service to that pull
Mark Hartig14Exactly. NYT helping launder him for 2028. Another lying grifter, in love with Moscow.
/mnt/usb/cryptid9Tucker Carlson always has the baffled look of a dog that has just farted and scared itself. Also he has a brother named Buxom. Buxom Carlson
Eunicecycle5Who is apparently always constipated.
JT 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸2The answer is: he believes it’s ok to say anything to make money, no matter how morally reprehensible.
what does tucker carlson really believe? who gives a fuck
rax ‘levon honkers’ king336it’s very easy to find out what i really believe you just have to ask. if finding out someone’s beliefs is harder than that then maybe you should just assume they’re a shady little opportunist with no principles
Pope of Chili Town8Nothing good, that’s for sure!
🪺🪺🪺 Adam Jay 🌷🌸🌺4It’s always been clear that the answer is, “in whatever he thinks will help Tucker”
Loomin' Onion™4Paper paid for a whole ass trip to Maine to learn fuck all.
staghorncalculi.bsky.social4And this photo. Who the hell are they trying to fool? What a waste of time and what a slap in the face to the citizens.
burdsandwurds3he looks like he just realized his jacket smells like cat piss
therealnbw.bsky.social2I believe Tucker’s time on the planet should be over. He’s really fucking venal. I also think whoever at the NYT who approves letting assholes lie to them and by extension their readers should be in Gitmo. Yes. Yes I am a vengeful fuck. You’ll thank me later though.
Daniel Tirebiter2He believes in fame and money, next question.
spoiler: you do not find out what tucker carlson really believes
Nicole Hemmer73i think all listeners who tune in for this interview should also then listen to carlson’s conversation with his brother buckley and his easter sunday episode. you won’t find out what carlson really believes from those, either, but you’ll get a clearer sense of what he’s doing
Max Kennerly45Oooooo, what does Tucker Carlson believe! <looks inside crumpled paper bag with oil stains> Oh turns out it's white nationalism. Couldn't have guessed that.
balls-balls.bsky.social18Tucker Carlson believes in enriching Tucker Carlson
StrangeBrickDroog9But you get a nice monochrome photograph of him trying to look like Ernest Hemingway and really smart.
Lidia Ferrari7That’s because the answer is nothing. He believes in nothing.
Philip N Cohen7Three follow-up questions about when he last spoke to Don Jr., none about calling Iraqis "monkeys"
mikeocon.bsky.social5What does David Duke really believe, and why is he splitting with Reagan?
Brian Dear5I am so completely sick and tired of reporters and editors being played like cheap FIDDLES with fascists. They are either complete incompetent idiots who do not belong in journalism or they are IN ON the con, deliberately pushing false/misleading narratives to the public.
fedoddy.bsky.social5Also. Who the fuck cares?
Dodecadonuts3That shitbird believes in power. That’s all. Not an ounce of empathy for anyone. Just like everyone in the GOP.
Edward R. Murrow-ish 🎙️3Oh I think it’s very obvious what so-called reformed cultists like him believe. The same things as before that made them cast aside any shred of decency, empathy and fairness but is now looking to hatch their own cult-like following w/ the same wretched, hate-filled and anti democratic “values “.
XeroHour3What does Tucker actually believe? Whatever the highest bidder tells him to.
Ryan McTague3I wish they would stop trying to anoint the next Trump
Jude Webre2Your expertise and personal sacrifice listening to the Right pays dividends again
historyflowermind.bsky.social2There is no redemption arc in that interview for Carlson. He is truly just as repugnant as he always has been.
Five years ago, I wrote about the trend of big mainstream media outlets doing profiles of Tucker Carlson to try to get at what he "really believes," and well... www.readtpa.com/p/tucker-car...
KUNA5that's exactly the problem - they're still trying to figure him out, like he's some puzzle to be solved
Gwen Rubinstein3Also if the Dominion suit taught us anything it’s that he has no core beliefs other than his own aggrandizement
Mike Friedman3I'm convinced the problem is that Tuckums, along with most of the rest of the right wing scream machine, doesn't 'believe' anything. They just yell at people for a living. It's a performance. They're following a script. Now that some are realizing Trump is becoming toxic they want off.
Evan2The Times posing this question at anytime is dumb as hell, but giving him attention right after finding out how small his following is, that’s a hell of a choice.
To the person in my mentions saying Tucker Carlson sounds like an economic populist: Tucker is a Washington DC elitist of the highest order who does things like hanging out at the Kennedy Center for events with his buddy James Carville. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. Don’t fall for it.
Oliver Willis98The whole thing is more fake than pro wrestling
Bradley P. Moss15It’s actually fascinating how he reinvented himself as a populist. He spent the Bush years sporting a bow tie
Mark Hartig11Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson lives on Boca Grande. He's from a multi-generational wealth elitist Swanson family. His brother is named Buckley for goodness sakes. Who would think he's an economic populist?
Cliff9How brain damaged does one have to be to think Tucker Carlson of the Swanson frozen food dynasty is in any way anything approximating an “economic populist?”
Kevin Wardrop7Tucker hasn't had to worry about money for as long as he's been alive, he's never suffered a single day of economic uncertainty. Knowing this, and observing his history, one can understand: Tucker is Tucker for the love of it. youtu.be/GO9QAx2-Twc?...
Kim Noreen5Born rich. Married even richer. Even his name shouts "Privilege". www.youtube.com/watch?v=GooQ...
Hume's Ghost4Has there ever been an economic populist who wore a bow tie most of his life?
Auntie Ketzirah3He is a total elitest. He’s the archetype of “that DC guy” for people who don’t live here. Actually, he’s “that guy” to us too.
Trojan Duck2Scion of the Swanson frozen dinners fortune, though I think he may have had a falling-out with his family. He's another phony like Trump.
Kim H2Tucker is a master grifter, he’s good at reading the room, he knows trump is done, he knows left populism is rising, he is pivoting to meet what comes next to steal the language but he will always bend it towards fascist, white nationalism. Only thing we should take from TC turn is we are winning
The New York Times wanted Trump to be president and they did if not everything in their power most of everything in their power to help make that come to pass; if Tucker Carlson runs they will definitely want him to be president for mostly the same reasons.
En Buen Ora7The NYT wanted a harsh & severe right wing dictatorship, but they also wanted a more genteel & polite one, though there was something that deeply thrilled them about the raging id-based pseudopopulist cultural appeal of Trump himself.
Brian Gmerick2He'll have to beat Trump in 2028, cause I'm convinced Trump's going to try and stay in power, no matter how much his brain turns to mush between now and then. Twenty-Second Amendment be damned.
I read the Tucker Carlson piece in the Times. He strikes me as the most craven, intentionally evasive opportunist of our times. His new pivot is extremely dangerous because it will appeal to so many.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin59He explicitly says he is opposed to genocide and killing kids, for instance, and makes a compelling case for the end of US funding and/or instruction taking from Israel, and then says things like “no immigration whatsoever should be allowed into the US because our people deserve jobs.”
The Morrigan12Tucker is a racist, sexist, POS and no pivot from him will EVER repair the damage he and all the rest of the reich wing talking heads have done to America.
bluenebraska.bsky.social6Joy Reid made the observation that he may be angling at giving disgruntled MAGA an alternative. Watch for him to pivot to JD.
Old Gen-X Man6It's all about staying relevant.
Neil Bowen5IMO the last thing the US needs in 2028 is Trump light with much smarter people
MarcKSkier ♿️ 💙🇺🇦 ⛷️ 🌵🏳️🌈 Ally4As another Wolf attempts sheep clothing I sincerely hope that everyone’s eyesight has improved along with enhanced BS detection!
kelleywillis.bsky.social3How that giggling nepo appeals to anyone is beyond me.
The idea that Tucker Carlson is 'anti-war' in any sense that matters is absolutely ridiculous
Lord Businessman II73Tucker is mad that perfidious (((Israelis))) dictate US foreign policy, but for a sufficiently different reason from myself that I wouldn't characterize us as 'agreeing' if you know what I mean
Mach5People love to dig around in the heads of unrepentent racists looking for a good opinion and it's baffling.
stcaF Tenet Facts4luckily, he and Platner are scheduled to have a meeting of the minds, so we're all good.
Brosemite Sam4Tucker Carlson is fine with any way that doesn't involve Jews. If it does involve Hews, whether Zelenskyy or Netanyahu, he is against them. Not equivocating the two, just saying antisemitism is what animates Carlson.
Chrononaut3I dare anyone to find one instance where Carlson deviated from the line of that famous pacifist Vova Putin. Putin's genocidal invasion of Ukraine is now in its 5th year, and how many times has "anti-war" Carlson criticized Putin for his war-mongering? Zero. bsky.app/profile/chro...
Listening to the new Tucker Carlson interview my only takeaway is that he’s probably going to beat Gavin Newsom in 2028 and that’s really depressing on several levels
Matt Novak84Tucker Carlson understands that if he runs, he can insult MAGA boomers and they'll still vote for him as long as he's racist enough. Carlson on the boomers: "I do think that's like the most selfish generation, most loathsome, mediocre generation this country ever produced."
Fun32Neither of them are going to be the candidate
Brad26This is some “posting after bedtime” doomer shit, sorry Matt.
Robbie, sometimes20I'm going to at some point today but just strikes me as the wrong kind of coalition building, and if you think you can have a rational good faith conversation with Tucker, you're a naive idiot. He's a seasoned propagandist. He knows how to use you and your platform for his own ends.
Meatball Ron: Serving Twitter Realness17I must disagree with your fatalism Newsom is not emerging victorious from a Democratic primary. The younger crop of hopefuls are pushing an “anti-corruption” narrative that is extremely powerful and Newsom simply has too much baggage in that exact arena
grhoda9idk, he's got that weird laugh, way weirder than the noise that sunk howard dean's ambitions
Dr Robin4Tucker Carlson is an evil disingenuous man who lied about Trump and the 2020 election. You don’t just get to crawl out of that kind of dung unscathed.
🇨🇦 Sergio 🇨🇦4That’s a big statement. I hope you’re wrong. I listened to the first 30 minutes so far and I have to admit he’s a good communicator. I don’t like the man and I hate his speech, his position and what he promotes. But, he knows how to communicate.
Chris⚖️Justice2Tucker is getting an EASY ride right now, because everyone is distracted. No one is attacking HIM currently. But he's got a checkered past that really causes him problems. Especially if competition uses it in advertising. I have mixed feelings about Gavin, but he's not wicked like Tucker.
Secretbandname2Tucker is more clearly a Russian asset than Trump is.
Allen3D2I don't think he'd run, but it would be funny if Jon Stewart ran and resulted in Tucker losing a job again.
SneakyTits872AOC needs to pull her head out of her ass and not just be pro-Palestine, but anti-Israel. Israel is a genocidal apartheid state. It is the enemy, and most people are tired of tiptoeing between AIPAC and JStreet. A successful Tucker run would be the Dems failing, yet again, to meet the moment.
Ben Says Abolish ICE2The guy has had like 7500 total subscribers over the entire life of his site. That includes everyone who signed up for a month and then ditched. I don't think he's getting 80 million votes.
I describe Tucker Carlson as professionally perplexed Like if a guy’s whole job was looking like he didn’t know he shit his own pants. He knows there’s mounds of shit in his pants. But he doesn’t know who did it. & he’s too busy to wipe his own ass because he’s desperately searching for the culprit
Big Spooky ColBosch14Each of these guys appeals to a different aspect of the fascists. Trump is their desire for "opulent" wealth, Alex Jones is their lack of emotional regulation, and Carlson is their willful ignorance of the world around them. I could probably map them to the deadly sins or Snow White's dwarves.
Spiritual Mantis2And the culprit is never a white person
Dylan2It's a slightly higher-brow rendition of exactly what Joe Rogan does.
This is a fascinating, well conducted interview. But after watching it, I find myself wondering: how does such an utter charlatan become a dominant media presence in the US and a plausible GOP president? And why does NYT help him along the way? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/m...
VestigialLars5My guess is money changes hands behind the scenes. Tuck basically buys a puff piece interview as he attempts to regain his online reach, because affirmation from the crowd is all he craves.
Leslie Mulkey5Monied fascists that prefer Orbán to Madison—anti democratic business titans like Peter Thiel, and malign foreign actors like Putin.
jim0novak.bsky.social3My thought exactly: the Times wants Tucker to win “my next favorite Republican”, Season 48.
Megazoned Out 232Tucker has not made a single significant contribution to the field of journalism. His role is to flatter power and spread their narratives. Just another ass in a seat that happened to be in the right place at the right time. Utterly interchangeable.
QueeDave2Jon Steward exposed him years ago. Should have been the end.
DougZillaGorilla2Authoritarians depend on charlatans to gain power. Tucker Carlson is an enemy of the United STates.
Ryan McTague2The only person who even attempted to hold him and his ilk accountable was Jon Stewart
