What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out.
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, this is the interview. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro. |
| 0:11.4 | Love him or loathe him, Tucker Carlson has been at the center of our political conversation |
| 0:17.5 | and conservative media for a decade now. |
| 0:21.0 | Few other media figures are more closely identified with the Trump era. |
| 0:25.3 | His massively popular Fox show started just after the 2016 election, and despite being |
| 0:30.7 | fired in 2023, Carlson remained a pivotal figure, launching his own network and boosting |
| 0:36.5 | Trump into a second term on his podcast and in campaign rallies. |
| 0:41.5 | Then, Trump decided to attack Iran alongside Israel, a decision that Carlson is completely opposed to. |
| 0:48.1 | He now says he regrets supporting the president and has become a vocal and influential critic of the administration. |
| 0:55.0 | He also blames Israel for making Trump, quote, a slave by, as he characterizes it, |
| 0:59.8 | pushing the president into war. |
| 1:01.9 | Those comments and others have led to charges against Carlson of anti-Semitism. |
| 1:06.9 | To understand this break with the president and more, I traveled to Maine to sit down with him. |
| 1:11.5 | We had a wide-ranging conversation about his views on the war, his interview with the white |
| 1:16.1 | nationalist Nick Fuentes, why he thinks Trump has betrayed his base, and whether he thinks |
| 1:21.1 | the president is the Antichrist, something he's been musing about on his show. But hanging |
| 1:26.9 | above our whole two-part discussion was one central question. |
| 1:30.9 | Is Carlson's anti-Trump conversion permanent? |
| 1:33.9 | And does it portend a wider cracking of the MAGA base? |
| 1:38.7 | Here's my interview with Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:48.8 | Thank you. with Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson. |
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