Tucker Carlson’s Reversal on Trump Raises Questions for MAGA

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tucker Carlson, the right wing pundit and onetime Donald Trump diehard, now says he regrets supporting the President. Carlson apologized on his show for misleading his audiences and said he’ll be tormented over that support for a long time. The comments mark a high-profile break between Trump and his former media ally, and they come amid growing divisions within the Republican party over Iran. New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle took a close look at Carlson’s many iterations and reversals in his recent biography “Hated by All the Right People.” We talk to Zengerle about what Carlson’s apparent change of heart signals about the future of Trump-era conservatism and get your reactions. Guests: Jason Zengerle, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, "Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
0:39.3	Tucker Carlson's break with President Trump is prompting myriad questions and opinion pieces about its sincerity and the extent of its meaning.
0:48.1	Here's what started at all, Carlson on his podcast last week, telling his brother Buckley that now, after the Iran war, he regrets
0:55.8	supporting the president and is tormented by it.
0:58.8	We're implicated in this for sure.
1:01.0	Yes.
1:02.0	It's not enough to say, well, I changed my mind.
1:05.0	Or like, oh, this is bad.
1:06.0	I'm out.
1:07.0	It's like in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.
1:15.6	Yes.
1:16.6	So I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences.
1:21.6	You know, we'll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be. And I want to say I'm sorry for
1:29.5	misleading people. It was not intentional. That's all I'll say.
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