As Tucker Carlson has turned on President Trump, Trump has distanced himself from Carlson. Among other things, he has described Tucker as “kooky.” Fair enough, but mild. Now Trump has taken the gloves off:
President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray that highlights Tucker Carlson's extremism, embrace of Islamists, and America Last:
The article is titled: "Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump"
Several of the top lines in the piece include:
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— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) April 2, 2026
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President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray that highlights Tucker Carlson’s extremism, embrace of Islamists, and America Last:
The article is titled: “Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump”
Several of the top lines in the piece include:
-“While the president has advocated a strong defense of America’s regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes.”
-“His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists.”
-“While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.”
-“While accusing everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, Carlson has obsessed about nothing else. While saying ‘We’re not allowed to talk about Jews,’ he has talked about nothing but Jews.”
-“This culminated in Carlson calling Trump’s actions ‘evil.’ … From being Trump cheerleaders, Carlson & co. are trying to do everything they can to destroy the president.”
The Douglas Murray article that President Trump posted is dated March 19 and appears here. In addition to the quotes that Ryan Saavedra notes, I would add this portion of Murray’s column that deals with Winston Churchill, Tucker Carlson’s bête noire:
Just a day after Trump made his admiring remarks about Churchill, Carlson said something that is worth quoting at length.
Because it is where the ignorant and the sinister meet.
“Winston Churchill, who I know we’re required to deify, presided over the imprisonment of his opposition party during the entire length of the war. And their families, and their wives. They’re rotting in prison away from their little kids — in some cases their infants. And their crime was being the opposition party and being ‘disloyal and unpatriotic.’ They weren’t. The opposition party was led by a First World War hero who fought not just as a pilot in the sky but in the trenches. One of the great war heroes, former member of Parliament, the country ever produced.”
The person to whom Carlson is referring there is Oswald Mosley.
Mosley was not the leader of the opposition party in Britain.
That was the Labour party leader — and First World War hero — Clement Atlee.
Once war was declared, Atlee became deputy prime minister in the coalition government that led Britain through the war.
Mosley was once a Labour MP, but fell out with his party and indeed mainstream politics in the 1920s.
In 1932, he formed the British Union of Fascists — a party that wanted to introduce Hitler’s policies to the UK and form an alliance with Nazi Germany.
Mosley was not an “opposition party” leader.
His wretched fascist party never managed to get a single member elected to Parliament.
Mosley was a traitor to his country. He married his second wife — like him, a fascist and friend of Hitler — in Berlin in 1936.
They married in a small, private ceremony at the home of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
One of the only other people to attend the wedding was Adolf Hitler, who gifted the newlyweds a silver-framed photograph of himself.
Why does this matter?
Because in his attempts to undermine Trump, Tucker Carlson has decided to subvert and pervert history.
Mosley and his wife were imprisoned during the war because in a time of total war, they were people who wanted to sell out their country to Hitler and would have done anything they could to continue collaborating with their country’s mortal enemy.
Carlson is indeed deranged. More than that, he has gone over to the dark side. Here, as is often the case, it is President Trump who is the voice of sanity.
I think Trump’s posting of Murray’s column signals the end of the road for any possible rapprochement between the president and his former supporter. Republicans are going to have to choose what path they want to take, and I have zero doubt what the result will be. Despite all the noise and consternation about the online followings of former conservatives like Carlson and Candace Owens who have turned into cranks (at best), I don’t think their views command the support of more than a tiny number of Republicans–and, perhaps, a slightly larger percentage of Democrats. The dustbin of history awaits them.
