Speaking in a late June broadcast of his podcast, former Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson sounded off on the network, exposing how it uses hysteric, pearl-clutching propaganda to push fear and worry on its viewers, and how its owners hate President Donald Trump and would do almost anything to remove him.
Mr. Carlson’s comments on the matter came shortly after America, against his wishes, briefly intervened in the Israel-Iran War and bombed an alleged nuclear facility before forcing both sides to the negotiating table to strike a ceasefire deal. Carlson took the opportunity to lambast Fox News in being Janus-faced about President Trump, and to call out how the network pushes propaganda meant to make its viewers full of fear.
Speaking first about the matter of how the Murdoch family absolutely hates President Trump despite owning Fox News and gaining the president’s ear through it, Tucker explained that during his time at the cable channel, he learned that “The Murdochs really hate Trump.”
Continuing, he explained that after he got fired in the spring of 2023, the Murdochs were trying to convince him to run for president, a move that would have torpedoed Tucker’s popularity and split the MAGA base. He said, “I got fired in April of 2023. In May of 2023, they asked me to run for president against Trump and said they would back me.”
Building on that, Tucker emphasized a point that many in his sphere of MAGA think is increasingly worrisome, arguing that Fox News is full of warmongers who want war with Iran whatever the cost, and that FNC will, as a result, push pro-war “propaganda” in an awful effort to “scare old people” into supporting yet another foreign war.
Such is what Carlson said when speaking with Steve Bannon, the populist former White House aide who is known for harboring a deep dislike of the Murdoch family and Fox News, explaining to Mr. Bannon that to him, it “feels like Fox is playing a central role in the prowar push.”
Continuing, he alleged that the network has a long history of using its power and influence to push such things on its primarily older-American viewer base, saying, “They’re doing the thing they always do. Turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit to a new war.”
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Commenting to The Hill on Tucker’s comments and what they mean for the Trump Administration and Fox News, an insider explained, “Trump recognizes the following Tucker has but he also knows he needs Fox. He’s one for flattery, so he’s going to weigh both sides of it, but we know he’s ultimately going to do what he sees fit.”
Another insider explained to the outlet that while Tucker and President Trump were briefly at loggerheads in the aftermath of 2020 and the waning months of the first Trump Administration, along with their disagreement over an intervention in Iran, the two are firmly on the same side now. That insider explained, “DJT and Tucker are good. And this thing getting wrapped up so quickly basically stopped a major civil war on the right.”