{"id":919,"date":"2026-05-02T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/02\/tucker-carlson-on-trumps-spellbinding-quality-their-split-over-iran-nick-fuentes-regret-and-more-i-wish-i-hadnt-done-that-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:35:00","slug":"tucker-carlson-on-trumps-spellbinding-quality-their-split-over-iran-nick-fuentes-regret-and-more-i-wish-i-hadnt-done-that-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/02\/tucker-carlson-on-trumps-spellbinding-quality-their-split-over-iran-nick-fuentes-regret-and-more-i-wish-i-hadnt-done-that-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson on Trump\u2019s \u201cSpellbinding\u201d Quality, Their Split Over Iran, Nick Fuentes Regret and More: \u201cI Wish I Hadn\u2019t Done\u201d That Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tTucker Carlson<\/a> is getting candid about his fallout with \u30c9\u30ca\u30eb\u30c9\u30fb\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u30d7<\/a>, his infamous interview with Nick Fuentes<\/a>, Erika Kirk and more.<\/p>\n

\tIn a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times<\/a><\/em> published Saturday, the former Fox News host opened up about his break with Trump<\/a> over the Iran war, explained why he believes the president casts a \u201cspell\u201d on those around him, clarified past comments about previously suggesting Trump could be the \u201cAntichrist,\u201d shared his theory that Trump could legalize cannabis to lower testosterone levels and reflected on Erika Kirk and his regrets over interviewing far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. \t<\/p>\n

\tCarlson was a prominent player in cable news for decades, hosting shows on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News before he was abruptly ousted from Fox in 2023<\/a> shortly after the network settled its defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, though Fox said the decision was unrelated.<\/p>\n

\tSince his exit, Carlson has forged a new life in digital media, capitalizing on fractured audiences while expanding his brand into other ventures, including a book imprint announced<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

\tHere are some of his most eyebrow-raising comments from the interview.<\/p>\n

\tAddressing why he previously said he was \u201csorry for misleading people,\u201d Carlson pointed to Trump\u2019s decisions in Iran.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe ticket of admission to the conversation is admitting when you are wrong,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cI spent 10 years defending Trump on Fox News. I\u2019d probably do it again, because on the issues I agree with him\u2026 I told people this guy will keep us out of the next Iraq, specifically will keep us out of a regime-change war with Iran\u2026 And here we are in the middle of a regime-change war in Iran\u2026 so I\u2019m sorry.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tWhen asked about previously invoking the \u201cAntichrist\u201d in relation to Trump, Carlson repeatedly denied ever directly calling him that, saying \u201cI have not said that,\u201d however, The New York Times<\/em> pointed to past footage<\/a> in which he asked: \u201cCould this be the Antichrist?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI don\u2019t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I\u2019m not sure I fully understand what the Antichrist is, if there\u2019s just one,\u201d Carlson responded. \u201cI actually tried to understand it. I may have said some are asking that. I am not weighing in on that because I don\u2019t understand it, just to be totally clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCarlson also described Trump as having a \u201cspellbinding\u201d presence.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere is a kind of quality that he has that\u2019s spellbinding,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think it probably literally is a spell\u2026 You spend a day with Trump and you\u2019re in this kind of dreamland. It\u2019s like smoking hash or something. It\u2019s interesting, very interesting. And there may be a supernatural component to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe went on to speculate that Trump could legalize cannabis as a way to \u201clower testosterone levels\u201d and make people \u201cmore passive,\u201d adding, \u201cHave some more benzos, it\u2019s fine. Because it\u2019s not fine, is the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe also expressed his own theories about the damage he believes has come to many people in Trump\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOne thing that has bothered me for many years is the fact that a lot of people in Trump\u2019s immediate orbit have been hurt,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cGone to prison, become unemployable, publicly shamed, have gotten cancer. And I am a believer in big-picture assessments of things. So you\u2019re trying to think, Is Trump good or bad? He\u2019s saying things I really agree with. But then people around him are getting hurt. Is the country actually getting better? I don\u2019t know.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tReflecting on his October interview with Fuentes, Carlson admitted, \u201cI wish I hadn\u2019t done the Fuentes interview.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt was totally not worth it,\u201d he said, adding that it distracted from pressing conversations about Iran. \u201cI added to the distraction. What I really wanted to talk about was where we were going in this war with Iran. And I spent like a month getting calls from people being like, \u2018You\u2019re a Nazi!\u2019 And I wish I hadn\u2019t done that. It didn\u2019t imperil my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe added: \u201cThe only person I\u2019ve really been impolite with is Ted Cruz, because I have limited self-control and he\u2019s just so repulsive. I couldn\u2019t control myself. And I was a jerk, and I tried to apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCarlson also addressed his relationship with Turning Point USA following Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder in September, saying he still cares deeply for Erika Kirk and remains concerned about the investigation.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI have always loved Erika Kirk,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cmy concern more broadly is about the investigation into Charlie\u2019s murder, which was short-circuited by the F.B.I. And I\u2019d like to know why.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAlex Weprin contributed to this story. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tucker Carlson is getting candid about his fallout with Donald Trump, his infamous interview with Nick Fuentes, Erika Kirk and more. In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times published Saturday, the former Fox News host opened up about his break with Trump over the Iran war, explained why he believes the president casts a \u201cspell\u201d on those around him, clarified past comments about previously suggesting Trump could be the \u201cAntichrist,\u201d shared his theory that Trump could legalize cannabis to lower testosterone levels and reflected on Erika Kirk and his regrets over interviewing far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. Carlson was a prominent player in cable news for decades, hosting shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[173,2,28,570,54,57,571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hollywood","category-news","category-nick-fuentes","category-politics-news","category-trump","category-tucker-carlson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}