On June 18, Tucker Carlson went on the Can’t Be Censored podcast, openly declaring war on the Republican Party and the Trump administration.
He announced he would not support Republicans in the November midterms, stating flatly, “I would not support the Republican Party, there’s no chance.” Carlson questioned how any American could back a party “not loyal to the United States” and insisted it was “not possible to vote for people like that.”
He admitted his long record of defending the GOP, but concluded there was “no defending this because it’s immoral.” Then came the harshest blow: he is “out,” and he believes many others will follow.
Carlson centered his attack on the Trump administration’s military campaign in Iran. He accused the administration and the entire GOP of putting foreign interests, especially Israel and big donors, above American citizens. He called this “exactly the opposite” of what the party should stand for. Most damning, he labeled these actions “immoral” and outright “treasonous,” declaring, “You can’t have a government that calls itself a democratic republic…that is representing interests outside the country.”
He claimed true America First had been ditched for what benefits Israel and donors instead of American families.
Carlson’s break with President Donald J. Trump hardly comes as a surprise.
In April, Trump publicly denounced him on Truth Social and in a New York Post interview. The president called Carlson a “low-IQ person” with “absolutely no idea what’s going on,” a “broken man” fired from Fox News who never finished college. Trump labeled him and others “nut jobs” and “losers” pushing the opposite of MAGA by opposing strong action against Iran, the world’s top sponsor of terror.