Tucker and Trump's marriage of convenience heads for divorce court [View all]

Tucker and Trump’s marriage of convenience heads for divorce court

David Smith
in Washington

Conservative host says he’s ‘tormented’ by previous support for Trump – could this presage his own run for president?


(Guardian UK) He can’t live with him and can’t live without him. But, finally, the conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson seems to have made up his mind about Donald Trump. Their up-and-down marriage of political convenience is heading for the divorce court.

On Tuesday Carlson admitted that he will be “tormented” for a long time by his support for Trump in the 2024 US presidential election “and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people”. What he did not say is whether this presages his own run for president in 2028.

The breaking point was the war in Iran, a betrayal of Trump’s promise to end US foreign entanglements, and the perceived influence of Israel, which has become a Carlson obsession.

It was the latest – and perhaps final – twist in a long and tortured relationship. Back in 1999, when Trump was potentially running for president on a Reform party ticket, Carlson said he was “the single most repulsive person on the planet”. In 2016, he reportedly told an acquaintance that the Republican frontrunner was “not evil” but “mentally ill”. ...............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/tucker-trump-carlson-torment