In a sit-down interview with Amos Barshad of Columbia Journalism Review, Tucker Carlson revealed that he is pursuing the creation of a third political party in the United States.
Carlson, who is one of the most well-known conservative commentators in the United States, has become a controversial figure to many on the right, particularly since he has voiced opposition to the war with Iran and grave concerns about the Israeli government’s military actions around the world, including in Gaza and Lebanon.
Carlson told Barshad that he never planned on speaking publicly about Israel but felt like he was almost pushed into it and “had no choice.” Sensing that Israel was pushing for regime change in Iran via the power of the United States, Carlson said he privately warned Trump about many times over a decade.
“The breaking point and the huge change in my life came in June of 2025, with the Twelve-Day War—which was not about Iran’s nuclear program,” he said. “It was the first salvo in a regime-change effort led by Israel. And that’s just antithetical to everything Trump ran on.”
Carlson said he visited the president in the White House three times the month before the Twelve-Day War of June 2025, during which the United States supposedly obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities with limited strikes. “I told him the same thing all three times: ‘You’re not gonna see the rise of a democratic, pro-Western government in Tehran. The best you’re gonna see there is just this suppurating wound.’ And he said, ‘I know.’” Carlson has not spoken to the president since the regime change war began at the end of February of this year.
“He’s not a man in charge of his own life at this point,” Carlson said. “I feel sorry for anybody who’s enslaved, including him.”
Carlson is concerned with the direction of the country, particularly in the areas of war and finance. “Where does the money come from? Where does it go? And who gets killed? And on those questions, the parties are in lockstep solidarity with each other,” he said. “That’s not a democracy. That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken, and there’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to bring that about.”
Pressed for clarification on his role with a third party, Carlson doubled down. “I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country. I mean, if you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you’re degraded. Your life expectancy has gone down, and the promise of your children’s lives is likely gone. No one seems to care. It’s not even a factor. ‘What about Hamas?’ I officially don’t care about Hamas. The US government should have, as its first priority, the welfare of its own people,” he stated, noting that he has no interest in being a political candidate for this third party.
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