'I Am Sorry for Misleading People': Tucker Carlson Delivers Jaw-Dropping Mea Culpa for Endorsing Trump
Source: MEDIAite
Apr 21st, 2026, 6:47 am
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson apologized on Monday for campaigning for President Donald Trump, declaring that he would be tormented by the decision for a long time to come. During an interview with his brother Buckley Carlson a Republican Party operative who previously wrote speeches for Trump Carlson expressed regret for having publicly supported the president, who has repeatedly attacked him in recent months.
You wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him. I mean, were implicated in this, for sure, said Carlson to his brother on The Tucker Carlson Show. Its not enough to say, Well I changed my mind, or like, Oh this is bad, Im out. Its 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.
Yes, Buckley replied. The former Fox News host continued, So I do think its like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, well be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say Im sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. Thats all Ill say.
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Carlson in recent months in response to his former ally becoming increasingly critical of the Trump administration most notably its handling of the Epstein files and the presidents war against Iran.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/i-am-sorry-for-misleading-people-tucker-carlson-delivers-jaw-dropping-mea-culpa-for-endorsing-trump/
So Putin's mouthpiece is sending a message to Putin's puppet that some things haven't worked out as smooth as expected?
yardwork
(69,469 posts)It's more twisted propaganda.
ToxMarz
(2,995 posts)Creature of habit. He can't help himself. What he regrets is he thought it would work out better for himself than it did.
ananda
(35,296 posts)Too bad.
Escurumbele
(4,102 posts)as long as he is able to change minds to have his followers vote Democrat, I am OK with his apologies. It doesn't change my opinion of him, I think he is an opportunist, a liar, and a piece of s^&*t, but again, if it helps in the primaries and then during the presidential election, I am good with the apology and should be sent to everyone who listened to Carlson, I have already sent it to a few people who listened to him, and will continue to do so.
calguy
(6,163 posts)I despise these people for who they are and what theyve said to get us to this spot. But if some of them are now coming out against trump, whether they're sincere about it or not, it may change more than a few votes towards our side, and that is a good thing.
bucolic_frolic
(55,442 posts)Look at me! I knew it all along!
sop
(18,900 posts)magicarpet
(18,938 posts)NCDem47
(3,487 posts)wnylib
(26,239 posts)from Trump to Vance.
Trump's physical and mental decline are obvious. Trump himself has hinted at his own demise.
If Trump has received a fatal diagnosis-- or, if his backers, enablers, and handlers think that he is going to be removed -- they want to keep their RW voters and the MAGA agenda alive.
So, they denounce Trump as a MAGA traitor and position the fascist MAGA party as the true rescuers of America from "radical leftists."
This is how they try to overcome their lack of Trump's perverse charisma. Usually, when a cult leader dies, so does the cult. But his successors can claim that THEY are the true MAGAs so the cult should follow them and not dissolve.
Lovie777
(23,242 posts)Botany
(77,568 posts)You should take the millions you have made spreading hate and use it to help people and stop
all public speaking. Too late for trying to wash away your shame now. You made jokes about
Vice President Harris giving blow jobs and fucking her way to the top.
Tucker you publicly kissed Victor Orbans ass as he was using Russian and Hungarian money to
prop up right wing disinformation American organizations such as CPAC.
Initech
(108,966 posts)And he was one of the chief spreaders of misinformation along with Alex Jones.
johnnyfins
(3,859 posts)his own run at POTUS in 2028. He will be the alternative fascist to the Trump Regime. You can bet on that.
FakeNoose
(41,965 posts)Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
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Lemon Lyman
(1,612 posts)No f'ing way!
All of you goons are attached to him at the hip. You 're not getting off the hook.
magicarpet
(18,938 posts)... is contemplating a run for president come 2028.
Trying to clean up his act and look more presentable by separating himself from the rancid cesspool of raw sewage known as Team trDUMP.
Look at me now and embrace me,... I am batheing and scrubbing my self with a wire brush to publicly and aggressively remove the Orange Shitler taint.
Please give me your vote when I campaign for the White people's White House and send me to Washington DC. So I can have my own rich boy reign of terror modeled as that of djt, but way way worse.
Tucker is trying to re-brand himself as the more likable and cuddlier KKKrishtun Nazi extremist. He will select Viktor Orban as his running mate for VeePee.
Escurumbele
(4,102 posts)magicarpet
(18,938 posts)I could see the MAGAT weirdos latching on to Tucker's message and promise to rule with an iron non sense fist. Hammer immigration. Hammer transsex. Hammer the queers. Hammer inflation. Hammer DEI. Hammer taxation. Hammer the need for White pregnancies and White increased births. Hammer contraception. Hammer for the abolition for divorce.
Exploit all the social hot button issues to appeal to the KkKrishtun Fascist adherents. Adamantly Oppose "Forever Wars". Strongly endorse the the American Nazi Republican Parties platform of "America First" - coming across as a fanatical patriot (as if) like Charles Lindbergh.
Tucker could polish his persona and presentation while on camera and climb his way to the top of the heap. He has the name recognition thang down pat - without even having gotten his political feet wet.
Presumably he will have access to ample funds to pull it off and become the next MAGA Emperor of the Universe - if he can finagle enough votes.
Ray Bruns
(6,512 posts)
magicarpet
(18,938 posts)Wonder Why
(7,151 posts)Scrivener7
(59,816 posts)The evidence was right in front of your face for all that time.
Hope you're not thinking of running for any offices in the country you ruined with that ridiculous pea brain.
AllyCat
(18,917 posts)They propped him up anyway. If the only thing now is skyrocketing fuel prices, its not much of a tantrum.
Scrivener7
(59,816 posts)BradBo
(1,038 posts)Your and your brother are scum. This is a slow motion tragedy happing before our eyes and your at fault idiot.
barbtries
(31,321 posts)he's an awful person. always has been, always will be.
ffr
(23,431 posts)But he's not saying that folks. He's seeing his endorsed candidate's cratering public polling numbers, so he's making up an excuse that implies he should have supported some other equally awful GOP candidate instead.
Fuck Tucker Carlson and anything such an awful person would say. Eat shit and die, POS!
UpInArms
(55,093 posts)Can fuck himself all the way off the planet
kacekwl
(9,200 posts)FBI Director when he fires Patel. Then he'll be back to worship the idiot.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,302 posts)That is why he is suddenly 'sorry' for doing what he did.
Fuck off Tuck-off!
You get no sympathy, nor absolution. You are why we are here.
You get to suffer with it just like everyone else, you spineless toady.
Bengus81
(10,249 posts)All of these fuckers are phony,including Traitor Green.
jfz9580m
(17,394 posts)It is one thing where it is disenchanted blue collar workers who voted for Trump. But this Goebbels knockoff was leading the charge.
I see Three-Body P everywhere I look online.
Omnipresent
(7,483 posts)They always default back to supporting him or the publican party.
It doesnt matter if Megan McCains fathers memory is attacked by trump, she got over it and supported him anyway. It also doesnt matter if Joe Rogan has an agreeable conversation with Bernie about the economically disadvantaged or if trump pisses him off about lack of transparency for the Epstein files.
jfz9580m
(17,394 posts)Tucker, MTG etc can go fuck themselves. They made life hell for people like Dr. Fauci, some of the rare honest/decent elites.
Festivito
(13,900 posts)It 's all about the money.
CaptainTruth
(8,231 posts)Vogon_Glory
(10,326 posts)IMO, he ought to.
Donald John has already wrecked millions of lives here in the US and hundreds of millions, if not billions of lives elsewhere on the planet. It will take generations, and in certain cases millennia, to mitigate the damage 45-47 has done.
Tuckums is lucky: hes still well-off. He isnt going to hurt that badly. The other millions cant say the same.
My cup of compassion is bone-dry.
Norrrm
(5,269 posts)Vogon_Glory
(10,326 posts)howbeit one used by right-wingers to insult anyone to the left of Jesse Helms. Nowadays we not only have Tuckums but a whole raft of right-wingers cheerleading Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation.
Theres still a part of me thats a Cold Warrior, even if the Commies arent a threat anymore. Being that sort of tool is inexcusable.
OhioBack2Blue
(151 posts)Vogon_Glory
(10,326 posts)Russia is a threat to its neighbors, particularly those who who were once part of the old Soviet Union, it is NOT a Communist country.
AllyCat
(18,917 posts)This insanity.
If he doesnt, hes just another grifter setting up to make bank the next election.
CurtEastPoint
(20,061 posts)so Fucker named his own spawn Buckley.
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jmbar2
(8,046 posts)Who will be the next paymaster? Putin is going broke, on his way out?
I won't believe any apology unless they explain WHY they did what they did, and why it was so wrong.
niyad
(133,144 posts)"tormented"??? WTAF are you doing to fix the harm you helped cause, because just saying "tormented" does not do one damned thing.
JohnnyRingo
(20,930 posts)I could go on about how he knew what he was doing or that he should have known better,
I could say that it's too late for apologies, but he influences people on the right and it means Trump loses another layer of armor and that much closer to seeing his way out the door.
Once the republicans in congress no longer fear his influence over the voters it will be the final chapter in the rise and fall saga.
SS32867
(1 post)... your apology is meaningless - YOU are one of the causes of this chaos and corruption. Screw You!
Wednesdays
(22,836 posts)agingdem
(8,930 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:18 AM - Edit history (1)
its basically I pissed off Trump/he revenge-targeted me/Trumps poll numbers are in the toilet so its safe for me to go into fake contrition mode even though I still hate everyone Trump hates..
CTyankee
(68,300 posts)bluedigger
(17,439 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,011 posts)coffeenap
(3,297 posts)WestMichRad
(3,316 posts)PJMcK
(25,061 posts)She wrote an open letter to Marjorie Taylor Green blasting the Congresswoman when she disavowed Trump.
So
youve suddenly discovered that Donald Trump, the man you treated like a messiah, is not loyal and that the MAGA movement is not safe, not sane, and certainly not rooted in anything constitutional. And youre shocked that hes attacking you, endangering you, calling you a traitor. As if you didnt know he had it in him. Puh-lease.
Heres the part you dont get to skip:
You helped create this monster. You fed it. You protected it. You celebrated it. And now that its finally turning on you, you want sympathy? Understanding? A moment of national concern?
No. Absolutely not. NOPE.
You dont get to unleash political poison into the bloodstream of American politics and then act surprised when it reaches your own veins. You dont get to cheer on Trump while he smears, threatens, and dehumanizes everyone in his way, and then clutch your fake pearls when he finally does it to you. You dont get to empower a movement built on conspiracy, cruelty, and violence, and then cry foul when you become its latest target.
Heres her full letter:
https://alyssajmilano.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-marjorie-taylor
As for Tucker Carlson, he can fuck off for exactly the same reasons.
SamuelAdams
(88 posts)Weren't there texts by Tucker leaked after 1/6 saying he hated Trump? Those texts made it clear he was lying in public about his support for Trump.
JoseBalow
(9,605 posts)Fuck you
Emile
(42,675 posts)years wasn't enough to convince him.
Gore1FL
(22,965 posts)PatSeg
(53,251 posts)Sounds like a rich family in a cartoon strip!
A surprising apology coming from Tucker, but how can anyone ever trust him? Much too little, much too late old boy.
cstanleytech
(28,519 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,841 posts)
Grim Chieftain
(1,881 posts)You're complicit. People trusted you and valued your opinion. You helped usher in the most evil, corrupt president in US history. Those who were naive enough to trust your "insight" are suffering.
Live with it, twerp.
Bristlecone
(11,137 posts)There is blood in the water and more sharks are going to follow.
travelingthrulife
(5,363 posts)Not done deliberately. Right.
Coolgoober
(372 posts)Wednesdays
(22,836 posts)Maybe you could help us to elect Democrats now, Tuck?
I won't hold my breath, though.
surfered
(13,811 posts)edhopper
(37,411 posts)and he still supports the Repuke agenda 100%.
So just fuck off.
Baitball Blogger
(52,514 posts)will be right there to escort him down the same path.
Johnny2X2X
(24,324 posts)Give me a break. They still Love most of his policies and will defend them no matter how disastrous.
JT45242
(4,067 posts)Both are paid chaos agents of putin
CTyankee
(68,300 posts)I AM SO GLAD I AM A DEMOCRAT!!!
That is all...
SergeStorms
(20,692 posts)Bullshit. The Carlson boys have no consciences or else they wouldn't be republicans.
Bluetus
(2,950 posts)A person who voted for Trump and never went to a rally or advocated the MAGA philosophy might have a claim to a "very small" role. But this guy has been promoting Trump on a daily basis to millions of followers for 16 years nonstop.
Tucker, go back and try again, once you really understand what you have done to this country.
hamsterjill
(17,666 posts)Sorry, Tucker. It's all well and good that you want to apologize. But that does not mean that I will ever forget what you, Candace Owens, MTG, etc. did that contributed to the mess that we are in.
If they can help our cause in any way, then I'm all for it. But we must NEVER forget who they are or believe that they are truly on our side. They flow with the tide and they will go back to supporting MAGA at any given moment - as long as doing that would suit their causes and their pocketbooks.
republianmushroom
(22,442 posts)You lied for power and prestige and you still are lying.
usonian
(25,912 posts)
MW67
(198 posts)How would it be unintentional?
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,438 posts)AZ8theist
(7,469 posts)You're still an anti-vaccine, anti-evolution, anti-science, anti-humanist DOUCHBAG!!!
GO FUCK YOURSELF
Only a fucking grifting, opportunist MORON thinks Dotard will be loyal to ANYONE for even 1 second.
Unless you kiss his ass constantly, he'll turn on you in a heartbeat.
So now that Dotard is critisizing you, it's time to "appologize"??????
GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Icanthinkformyself
(401 posts)intentional. They and the other right wing 'influencers' knew what and who the Convicted Felon is and was. If they didn't it was intentional ignorance.