Tucker Carlson recently offered an earnest apology for his past endorsement of Donald Trump, marking a significant shift in his stance amid a growing rift with the former president.
During a candid discussion on Monday’s episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” the ex-Fox News host openly criticized Trump. His guest for the episode was his brother, Buckley Carlson, who previously served as a speechwriter for Trump.
“You wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him. I mean, we’re implicated in this, for sure,” Carlson confessed to his brother during the revealing conversation.
He went on to reflect, “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind,’ or, ‘Oh, this is bad, I’m out.’ In small ways, but significant ones, you, me, and millions of others like us have contributed to the current situation.”
Carlson continued with introspection, acknowledging the weight of their past actions. “It’s a time to grapple with our own consciences,” he noted. “We’ll be haunted by it for a long time. I certainly will be, and I want to apologize for misleading people—it was not intentional. That’s all I can say.”
‘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.’
Carlson’s apology comes after a string of right-wing commentators broke with Trump over the Iran war including Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones and Candace Owens.
Last week, Carlson suggested Trump may be the ‘antichrist’ after the president posted controversial AI images of himself as Jesus and posing with Christ.
Tucker Carlson issued a groveling apology for endorsing Donald Trump amid his dramatic fallout with the President
The former Fox News host said he will be ‘tormented’ by his previous support for Trump ‘for a long time’
Last week, Carlson suggested Trump may be the ‘antichrist’ after the president posted an AI image of himself as Jesus
He called out a Truth Social post from Trump on Thursday showing him being embraced by Jesus, with Carlson claiming the image aligned with warnings from the Bible.
Carlson said the Bible cautions a figure like Trump could emerge in the future, described as a ‘man of lawlessness’ – or the ‘antichrist’ – who leads people against religion.
He suggested Trump matches the scripture’s description of this entity, as a ‘man who will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple proclaiming himself to be God.’
‘He will pose as God,’ Carlson continued. ‘He will mock other Gods, and put himself in their place.’
He concluded in his episode that while he was previously an ardent Trump supporter, the President has driven him away with his religious social media posts about himself.
‘To a lot of Christians, these predictions in both the Old and New Testaments seem to fit what we are watching,’ Carlson said.
‘Here is a leader who is mocking the Gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of Gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the antichrist?’
Carlson previously suggested Trump may be the ‘antichrist’ after the president posted controversial AI images of himself as Jesus and posing with Christ
Meanwhile, in a series of public attacks, the President has repeatedly mocked Carlson, calling him a ‘low IQ’ person and, in a Truth Social post earlier this month, lumped him together with other conservative commentators.
‘I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years,’ Trump wrote. ‘Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs.
‘They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! … They’ve all been thrown off Television… they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS.’
Days later, Trump doubled down, calling Carlson a ‘LOSER’ and suggesting he ‘should see a good psychiatrist.’
