The Moment Tucker Carlson Finally Broke
PDS Published 04/21/2026
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Because one by one, we've seen some of his most ardent cheerleaders defecting talking to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson. also speaking of which, Tucker, who recently suggested that Trump might be the Antichrist, he's now essentially calling the president a little bitch.
maybe it's inevitable that you get once the patriarchy has been overthrown, as it has been. Yes. You get a president like this who's emotional all about himself is perpetually the victim. Right.
So that's from his most recent episode with his own brother, Buckley Carlson, who recently quit his job as JD Vance, as a deputy press secretary and is now speaking out against Trump. this guy has failed in his responsibility. He is disdainful towards the American people. He's disdainful towards the people who put him in office, The only people he's been loyal to are the neocons and his donors.
you and I and everyone else who supported him, he wrote speeches for them. I campaign for him. We were implicated in this for sure. Yes. It's not enough to say I changed my mind or like, oh, this is bad. I'm out. It's like it's very small ways, but in real ways. You and me and millions people like us for the reason this is happening right now. You know, we'll be torn on the by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people and was not intentional. That's all I'll say. now.
A big thing to remember with Tucker Carlson is that while, you know, they're upset about a couple of issues that Democrats can get on board with things like Iran and the Epstein files, their primary complaint seem to be that Trump is not extreme enough.
We're saying that he didn't crack down hard enough on the BLM protests. He didn't stick up for the incarcerated January 6th defendant during the Biden years. He didn't prosecute corrupt Democrats aggressively enough. He didn't investigate who really shot Charlie Kirk and never jumped on board the anti-vax train.
You didn't take the vaccine, But Trump did and encouraged everyone else to take it and then never apologized. Even when it became clear that the vaccine killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. It was poison. Yeah. Look at the cancer rates. Look at the fertility rates. Like everything about it was a bioweapon aimed at us. Yes. And Trump didn't apologize for that.
He to this day will still talk about the success of Operation Warp Speed, which allowed these things to come to market, which allowed the you know what he said to me? I actually raised it with him because I'm so upset about it. But he did the same thing he did on the Iran war when I talked him with Iran more, you say, well, like this is hurting all these people like you believe in the polio vaccine. Like that was a good vaccine, don't you think? It's like, I guess I believe in polio, but I don't know. I mean, but that's what we're talking about. It's like, what does it have to do with it? You mentioned Ronnie. So do you think they should have nuclear weapons? No, I don't think not for nuclear weapons in general. But it was a non-sequitur designed to shut down the conversation.
you also talking about taking issue with Trump's offensive words and behavior towards Christians, whether it's threatening war crimes on Easter, attacking the Pope, or most recently, posting an image of himself as Jesus.
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This comes as debate over Trump’s mental fitness intensifies.
After posting—and then deleting—an AI image of himself as Jesus, Trump claimed he thought it depicted a Red Cross doctor. Critics widely mocked the explanation.
Soon after, Trump attacked The New York Times for publishing a report questioning his mental stability. The article cited erratic behavior, strange public remarks, and rambling speeches.
Examples included bizarre anecdotes, exaggerated claims, and confusing tangents during official events. Critics say this creates the impression of an unstable leader.
Democrats have echoed those concerns. Chuck Schumer called Trump “extremely sick,” and Hakeem Jeffries described him as “unhinged.” Some, like former CIA Director John Brennan, have even suggested invoking the 25th Amendment.
The White House denies all of this, calling Trump energetic and sharp, contrasting him with Joe Biden.
Some supporters argue Trump’s behavior is intentional—similar to Nixon’s “madman theory”—used as a negotiation tactic.
However, polling shows declining public confidence. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found 61% of Americans believe Trump has become more erratic with age, and fewer than half consider him mentally sharp.
Even former allies are speaking out. Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb called him “clearly insane,” and ex-press secretary Stephanie Grisham said he is “not well.”
Criticism has also come from prominent conservative figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones—especially over Iran policy.
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then actually touching on that, Trump now appears to be trying to get back into good graces with his Christian base by having an event called America Reads the Bible. and it'll be a live streamed week long marathon in which nearly 500 Americans will take turns reading the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation, to celebrate 250 years of the Bible in America.
as you'd probably expect, a number of the people doing the reading are overwhelmingly rightwing, including some cabinet members and politicians like Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Susie Wiles and Mike Johnson. the also I might do an because I want to see whether hex that actually reads from the Bible or he plagiarized is pulp Fiction. Again.
the way, the way at the very least this is expected to carry a heavy Christian nationalist undertone. the events announcement claiming that the Bible is indelibly woven into the national identity and way of life. actually, Trump himself is supposed to read a passage from the Old Testament tonight from the Oval Office.
the ones with that I'll say there is doubt whether any of this, you know, kind of song and dance that he's doing is going to meaningfully stem the bleeding that he suffered over the past year.
with the newest NBC poll, for example, it puts his overall approval rating at just 37%, with an overwhelming 63% disapproving. and so that's already horrible. But then it gets even worse for him when you break it down by how strongly people feel. only 20% say they strongly approve and 50% strongly disapproved.
It used to be 40% strongly disapprove and 25% strongly approve. So that gap it's now double the size widening from 15 points to 30. and then also when it comes down to specific issues, the numbers don't get any better.
With only 32% giving him good marks on the economy, either strongly or even somewhat, while 52% strongly disapprove. then as far as the war in Iran, 33% approve and 54% strongly disapprove. so now, compared to, you know, just one year ago, the percentage of folks who say the the country is on the wrong track, it's bumped up from 60 points to 67 points.
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Because The Washington Post just published a pretty striking analysis of how Fuentes, one of the most extreme, far right figures online, has been able to make massive amounts of money despite being banned from nearly every mainstream and even some non-mainstream social media platforms.
Because when does is become one of the biggest streamers on Rumble Since joining, he's hosted more than 700 streams, gained nearly 700,000 followers and racked up over 100 million video views. Just there. But because he has no sponsors and no traditional monetization, he relies almost entirely on super chats Those pay donations that pop up on screen during a live stream.
so the post they analyzed over 1400 hours of his streams, and they used AI to count those donations as they appeared in real time. and their findings were that since Trump took office in January of last year, Point has received nearly $900,000, or roughly 11,000 donors just there. since July, they say that he's been pulling in at least $60,000 a month.
that what was interesting to me is that nearly half of that revenue came from just the top 5% of donors, Right. More than $400,000 came from just that small group, and then as far as the rest, it was a smaller donors, mostly given $30 or less.
also, it is worth noting that, you know, most donors are anonymous. So, you know, one person could actually be giving from multiple accounts or multiple donors could be sharing a username. still the pattern was clear enough. and notably the donation spike during moments of political crisis surveillance. where they surge last summer during the protests over Trump's immigration policy, though, I will say that the single biggest boost came from his appearance on Tucker Carlson's podcast.
Right. Which is we covered ignited a full scale MAGA civil war. some slammed Carlson for platforming. Fuentes. Others defended the interview as necessary because they argued, Fuentes represents a real and growing faction of the political base.
There. in the month after that interview, Fuentes, the super chat revenue soared to $100,000. you know, that was a big moment. He's still profiting. His average monthly donations are up 10% since that appearance.
but then also, you know, super chats aren't is only income stream. he also runs $100 a month subscriptions to a private chat room where he interacts with fans and he sells merch. but really, this story stood out to me. Not because, you know, it's a it's a story about one guy's bank account, but rather, you know, what's happening around him.
because for years, the, the assumption a lot of mainstream conservative circles was that Fuentes, his views, they were just so extreme that they'd isolate audience, it would just fizzle out. The the platform bans, the social stigma, would just push him into irrelevance. But that assumption, it's wrong.
addition to the left, you know, he's been shunned by mainstream conservatives and MAGA Republicans. Fuentes is also turned on Trump. He's told his fans that the GOP should be purged and burned to the ground, and he's encouraged them to vote against Trump backed candidates to pave the way for, honestly, something more extreme.
and seemingly despite all that, or maybe even because of all that his followings grown. it's why you experts saying that the super chat number is a show. He has real staying power, and they also give him a financial incentive to keep building that audience.
you know, the idea that Fuentes represents a real voice within the American. Right? It's been validated by some pretty major figures. Right. Tucker Carlson, host of that interview that sent his numbers through the roof. Alex Jones had him on earlier this year. Megan Kelly, who once called him crazy, has since said that she understands why people find his messaging valuable, calling him very interesting and very smart. and Elon Musk, you know, reinstated him on Twitter handing him a massive platform again.
while, you know, there's still plenty of opposition across the political spectrum and even the people who have given him platforms often try to distance themselves from specific views that he holds. The point is that the door that was supposed to be shut, it keeps getting opened. then also every time it does, the numbers go up.
and of course connecting this to even more all of this is playing out as another front in the ongoing MAGA civil war.
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The Us-iran ceasefire is almost over. It's not clear that talks are going to happen, let alone that a deal is going to be reached. And Donald Trump, who seemingly has no idea what's going on, says that he expects to be bombing Iran again very soon.
though notably, while he's now claiming that he's unlikely to extend the cease fire, he may have already done it once. Trump announced a two week cease fire late on Tuesday, April 7th. And so outlets have been reporting since then that it would expire tonight. Tuesday, April 21st.
then yesterday he told Bloomberg that the cease fire would actually end Wednesday evening, Washington time, effectively giving himself another 24 hours before he has to decide whether to make good on his threat to blow up every single bridge and power plant in Iran.
and that extra time, it might be so that a second round of talks could take place, although it's far from certain. Right. Because mediators. They reportedly said that they had gotten confirmation that both the American and Iranian negotiating teams would arrive in Islamabad tomorrow.
then there were reports today that the US team had put their trip on hold after Iran failed to respond to its terms, and Iranian officials never publicly confirmed their attendance. you've also had an Iranian lawmaker claiming that reports of an Iranian delegation presence in Pakistan are a complete lie, saying that Iran, quote, will not negotiate until the issue of the naval blockade is resolved.
no one possible explanation for the conflicting information is that Iranian officials disagree about how to move forward.
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a now third Trump cabinet members out labor Secretary Lori Chavez Dreamer just resigned after a months long investigation into an alleged affair with a security officer. Taxpayer funded personal trips, drinking on the job and creating a toxic work environment.
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And today, he went before the Senate Banking Committee for his confirmation hearing...
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Senator Rick Scott called for defunding Yale after the Yale Political Union invited Hasan Piker to speak.
Critics accuse Piker of inflammatory rhetoric, while supporters argue the invitation aligns with free speech principles.
The situation reflects broader debates about speech on college campuses.
Meanwhile, a separate controversy emerged over a commencement speaker at Utah Valley University, tied to reactions following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
