Tucker Carlson Apologizes for Trump
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
4.9 • 991 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
So it's done...Tucker Carlson is now officially in the “I made a mistake” category of the right, joining Candace, Fuentes, MTG, Dave Smith, and others who have officially condemned or apologized for ever supporting Trump and now claim that he is everything from a war criminal, to a neocon to the anti-Christ...but what's true?
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00:00:00 – Tucker Carlson apologizes for Trump election
00:00:36 – Analyzing if supporting Trump was a mistake
00:01:16 – Addressing the Antichrist and populist cult rumors
00:02:42 – Comparing Trump’s personal character to his policies
00:05:38 – Why the establishment successfully thwarted Trump’s agenda
00:06:43 – How Trump understands the radicalized Democratic party
00:08:01 – Tucker Carlson’s views on Venezuela special operations
00:09:50 – Trump’s success with Panama, Greenland, and Venezuela
00:11:51 – Proving foreign policy does not betray America First
00:13:57 – Legitimate criticisms regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files
00:15:13 – Evaluating the conflict in Iran and pundit shifts
00:19:35 – Shifting attitudes towards Israel and Middle East policy
00:20:55 – Pundits adopting left wing oppressor versus oppressed worldviews
00:24:13 – Rebutting the radical revisionist history of Winston Churchill
00:28:40 – Why modern pundits refuse to engage in debate
00:31:04 – Fact checking religious freedom in Israel versus Qatar
00:33:25 – How Donald Trump reacts to honest ally criticism
00:35:16 – Why Nick views Trump’s legacy as net positive
00:37:48 – Rejecting unreasonable positions for logical conservative arguments
00:40:03 – Final thoughts on preventing national political collapse
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Tucker Carlson has just apologized for helping get Donald Trump elected. |
| 0:05.7 | He said that the Iran war has been Trump's single largest mistake. |
| 0:08.8 | He says that the administrative state or the system itself was much bigger than the man |
| 0:13.1 | elected. |
| 0:14.6 | He's even floated the idea that Trump could be the Antichrist. |
| 0:18.9 | By the same token, Trump has kind of responded in typical fashion. |
| 0:21.9 | And to be perfectly honest, in a fashion that I kind of find irritating. |
| 0:25.9 | And that is, he responded by calling Tucker Carlson low IQ, among other things. |
| 0:30.3 | So here's my question. |
| 0:32.4 | Who's actually right in all of this? |
| 0:34.7 | Do both of them have a point? |
| 0:36.3 | Do neither of them have a point? |
| 0:39.0 | And the reason why I'm going to explore this is because I don't think we can just dismiss Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson |
| 0:46.8 | has been on the conservative side of the argument for decades. Now, over the last several years, there's been a lot of questions |
| 0:55.8 | about the direction he's going, and I'll address some of that. By the same token, I'm not going |
| 1:01.6 | to sit here in this position now and just 100% back Donald Trump no matter what. That's never been |
| 1:07.5 | my position with Trump, even though I've been a Trump supporter. But I think we need to analyze this because this is a question that a lot of people on the right are asking right now. |
| 1:16.5 | And that is, did they make a mistake with respect to Donald Trump? |
| 1:20.4 | And so I'm going to analyze some of the reasons why people like Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Green or Candice Owens believe that. |
| 1:31.0 | And then we're just going to analyze whether or not we think it was a mistake. |
| 1:35.9 | Okay. |
| 1:36.3 | So let's just try to look at this as objectively as possible. |
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