Tucker Answers the Most Controversial Questions of 2026

One of the problems with running a podcast is it's all transmit and no receive you, "Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap," out of the microphone, but you never hear what the people listening think about what you're saying. So we have a segment called Ask Tucker in which our members, people who have joined TCN, which is our movement/network, get to ask questions and we answer them. And some of the questions are really smart. Make you think maybe we should listen more and talk less. In any case, Ask Tucker, is it Tucker Carlson.com, it's for members, join us. Jeremy G. from Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, Tucker, like you, I'm fed up with the Republicans. I'm reluctant to support them, but I also don't want to give the DSA a win. I may regret it, but I'm going to give the Republicans one last chance. What do you think? I get it. I don't, I mean, there's so many things about the DSA that offend me, the anti-white stuff especially, but the whole revolutionary posture. I like this country. I grew up here. I've lived here my entire life and I don't want to tear it down. I want to save it. So and I also don't like the kind of aesthetics of DSA, like unhappy, weird, gender transitioning rich kids, like no thanks. On the other hand, you have to keep two things in mind. One, there are certain things you can't support and getting pushed by Israel into a war with Iran that destroys the American Empire is high on that list. So no, I'm not rewarding that. And is the DSA actually an alternative to what we have to the Uniparty? Where are they on the Iran War? They're not saying much. Where are they on the tax code? Where are they on improving the life of the average person, not people who are here illegally, but the average American whose ancestors fought in the Civil War? I don't think they have anything to say about that. So you have to sort of wonder, like is the DSA real actually? Or is it just another fake alternative that we're being fed in order to disguise the truth of the system, which is it, you know, it's a tiny percentage of the population getting its way to our detriment. So I guess what I'm saying is yes, the DSA is different from the Republican Party for sure, but are they, how different are they on the core issues? I don't know. You tell me. Jean R. from Houston, Texas, Tucker, any thoughts on that freak James Telleriko running for Senate in my home state of Texas? The guy gives me the creeps. Jean, go with your gut. I tell my kids this all the time. If someone smells creepy, he is. If you get it like a weird sex vibe off someone, it's real. If you think someone is lying to you, you're right. That guy gives some of the creepiest vibes of any person in the public sphere. I don't care what you think of Ken Paxton, I don't care what you think of the Republican Party James Telleriko, who's using Christianity. That is what offends me about James Telleriko is the blasphemy running around telling everyone he's a Christian when he's not, when he's full contempt for biblical Christianity and hates people who adhere to it and whose program is totally anti-Christian running around lecturing the rest of us. I'm a Christian. There's something infuriating about that. I will take a lecture from an atheist. We just disagree. I think you're tragically wrong, but there is a kind of honor in the honesty about it. There is no honor at all about taking someone else's religion and using it as a cloak for subverting that same religion. So there's really no one more repulsive to me in the public sphere than James Telleriko. And like Eugene, a lot of that revulsion begins on a visceral level. I look at that guy and I'm like, "Oh no, you're not having dinner at my house, weirdo." Jeff from Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. What are the chances of forming a third party called the America Party that truly represents the majority of our country? The current political machine would fight it every step of the way, but I think we live in a unique time where a third party would be taken seriously. I'm Jeff. I meditate on this every single day. This is like the substance of my time in the sauna every day thinking about this exact question. Clearly, the way you framed it is the truth. Our current system doesn't represent the majority. Most people are opposed to the priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties. So it's that simple. And the promise of democracy is minority rights will be protected, of course, according to the Constitution. But the majority will get its way because it owns the country. And that hasn't happened in decades. And so we need an alternative that does exactly that. What's the majority of you on things? I don't know. It's not hard to find out. We have the Gallup poll every single day. I'm not saying we should govern by polling. I'm merely saying if what the government does over decades bears no resemblance to what the majority wants, it's not a democracy. And I would like democracy because I grew up believing that we had one and that was my birth rate. So yeah, there will be a third party. There will be the next cycle. I don't know. You know, politics is not my area, believe it or not, even though I've talked about it for my entire life. I don't have a gut level understanding of it. Partly because I find it disgusting. It's utterly transactional. It's not rooted in any belief at all. It's just a way of grabbing power peacefully. They used to say if politics was a way to settle disputes peacefully, there's nothing peaceful about our politics. People die because of our politics a lot, actually. So I'm not sure any of this is what I thought it was, but I do know that over time, you can have peace in your country unless its leaders pay attention to the desires of the majority. You're just not going to have peace. So at that point, you can suppress them and surveil them with flock cameras, or you can prepare to be overthrowned. That's where we're moving. So yes, I am praying for a third party, and I think we'll get one. Timothy F. from Charleston, South Carolina asks, if the Democrats win next month, does it have any effect on the wars in Ukraine and Iran? That is a great question, and I'm not sure is the answer. So the Democratic leadership is fully on board with the war against Russia. We are waging a war against Russia. The Trump administration, like the Biden administration, is at war with Russia, the largest nuclear power in the world. So that's crazy and we've been sort of lulled into not noticing that, but it is happening. And it's happening because the Democrats push it. They started the war by telling Russia we're going to bring Ukraine into NATO. That happened in February of 2022. So make no mistake, this is their priority and Republicans have signed on to it. The Iran war, same thing. Both parties have been talking for 40 years about how we need to overthrow the Iranian government for some reason, because they're paid to say that by Israel. So that will not change unless the Democratic leadership is under extreme pressure from its own voters. And I hope that happens. I pray that that happens that sincere Democratic voters, and a lot of people who have never voted Democrat, who are about to vote Democrat in this midterm because of the betrayal of the current administration. There are a lot of those. They say, wait a second. We're not going to be betrayed again. Stop the wars. I mean, people forget. They look back on the '80s and '90s as sort of a halcyon period in American history. Like that was so nice. It must have been so great to grow up in the '80s and '90s. Well, I did. And I can confirm it was. But why was it so great? Because we weren't at war. That's why. War kills your economy. It makes your society chaotic. And it causes people to become callous and desensitized and brutal toward each other. You can't kill innocents in a foreign country without changing as a country. So I pray, number one on my list is that we will stop these wars. There are wars of choice with no reason to wage them, other than a small group of people who somehow think they own Russia because their ancestors live there or something. Get on my country. That's totally relevant. I'm sorry. My ancestors were somewhere too. I'm sure they were mistreated too. But I'm not hijacking America's foreign policy to settle 100-year-old score or 300-year-old score or whatever. Stop. You just have to. That's not hate. That's love. It's love for America, for your nation. No, we're not going to use the United States military, the $1.5 trillion a year, the United States military, to settle your ancient blood feud. Because this is a new country. This is the promised land. This is a country that left all that behind, that is not hostage to ancient rivalries. So anyone who can restore our foreign policy to an America-centric pro-America posture will have my support. But I don't see any candidates right now who are promising that. So the average water pipe in this country is over a half-century old, and that means a lot of our water is not very good. That's got forever chemicals and antibiotics pesticides and all kinds of things in it. That's where we're excited to part with a company that has a solution to all of this. It's called Wise Well. Wise Well makes filters that give you actual control over the water that you drink that you give to your kids. 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I would say the three best are Marjorie Taylor Green, Joe Kent and Thomas Massey. You'll notice none of them holds office right now. Kent was defeated twice in his effort to get elected to Congress from Washington. state, he was defeated in one of the most extraordinary disinformation campaigns run by Nick Fuentes on behalf of the Neocons, Nick Fuentes is a Fed, and is working for the side he claims to oppose, obviously, and this came, or it's not obvious, I guess, to a lot of people because he, like, denies the Holocaust, so he must be whatever, I don't know, Nick Fuentes is working for the Neocons and always has. And so he was part of a bipartisan effort to keep Joe Kent out of the Congress because Joe Kent's wife was killed in Syria in a Neocon war. He had credibility, he's reasonable, he's not a hater, he's a Christian, and they had to keep him out. Marjorie Taylor Greene was driven out of a movement she helped create because she's like, "Hey, why don't we release the Epstein files?" Done. And Thomas Massey just noticed that, like, APAC controls 90% of members of Congress, and what is this? And that was enough to have his primary in the Commonwealth of Kentucky flooded with tens of millions of dollars from people who don't even live in the district or the country. So all three of them have been exiled from the American political system for telling the truth. And to me, the willingness to tell the truth, the bravery to tell the truth in the face of opposition is the hallmark of integrity, and it's what I want. Who's the worst? Everyone else. I mean, it's just, it's like, how do you even scale them? I mean, James Telleriko is the creepiest. He's the one, if he ever entered the sauna when you were there, you would jump through the window. But it doesn't mean he's the worst, because they're all kind of the same. They're all fake. They're all totally unwilling to sacrifice themselves for the people they lead. And that is the definition of leadership, the willingness to die for the people you lead. That's a father's duty, that's an officer's duty, that's a president's duty, that's a member of Congress's duty, and none of them are willing to accept that. So they're all disgusting as far as I'm concerned. I can't believe Ted Cruz didn't get an honorable mention. I mean, Ted Cruz is like, but Ted Cruz is also like the saddest member of Congress. His life, personal life is a true disaster. No respect at all at home, and which is like, there's nothing worse than that. I'd rather get beaten in a hundred elections than have my wife and kids not respect me, because nothing worse than that. I'd rather be dead than that, and I mean it too. And Ted's just like this sad, greasy guy who's been told his entire life that he's a genius because he is a high verbal IQ. Well, I have a higher verbal IQ than Ted Cruz, and I can promise you I'm not a genius. And this is the problem with having a high verbal IQ. It's like a party trick. I have it, so I can say this. It's like everyone's like, oh, you're so smart, you're so smart. But you're not actually, you're like a trained dog. Like you can identify the cup, the ball is under, but it doesn't mean that you're building a power grid. You know what I mean? Making wise decisions of my personal life. It's like there's a huge difference between facility with words and wisdom, and I've never seen a clear example in these poor guys, and I know a lot of them, because like, of course, people who are super fluent in a way have some skill. They know everyone else who has the skill. So I know a ton of these people, and a lot of them are so angry because they've been told their whole lives. I got an 800 in the verbal SAT, I'm a genius. And their lives haven't turned out at all, like what they had hoped. They've fallen so far short of their own expectations, and they're just filled with like self-hatred and disappointment. No one appreciates how smart I am. You know, the smartest people, the wisest people know how absurd they are. And Ted Cruz doesn't know how absurd he is. Everyone else knows, however. So I just feel sorry for him. Tom F. from Floral Park, New York, Tucker. Whenever I hear you talk about the donors pulling the strings behind the scenes, I wonder how sleazy the whole process is. Can you pull back the curtain and tell us about the donor class and how they control these candidates? Well, I mean, at the root of it is the belief that every politician has that money equals power that you cannot, and they all feel this way. Even the good ones, and I know I have known some decent people in politics because I've known everyone in politics, and a tiny percentage, the outliers, are decent people. But even they are captive to the lie that the amount of money you raise determines whether or not you succeed. So they all believe that. So once you believe that, you leave yourself open to manipulation, because I believe as Paul the Apostle told us the worship of money is the root of a level, and that is true in every context. And so because they believe that they're totally vulnerable to people, you know, rolling in the donors, Mary Madeleson, who's not even from this country, who's living off money she inherited from her deceased husband that he got from, like, exploiting human weakness in the gambling industry, and the whole thing is so repulsive. But you know, she's gotten an agenda, her agenda is the state of Israel, and they'll look to party in Israel, okay, I'm not mad about that. I mean, we all have her agendas. It's not her fault that our system and the players in the system, our politicians are willing to sell out their own country because she gives that money, starting with Trump, but not just Trump, all of them. By the way, Mary Madeleson is a James Telleriko donor. So I would marry Mary Madeleson, who's Trump's biggest donor, or second biggest donor. Why is she giving money to Trump's opponent, James Telleriko? She's agnostic, she doesn't care, because she doesn't care about the United States at all. She's not even American. Maybe in name, but she's not American, she's not from here, and I don't even know she lives here. She's using the United States to help another country. But that's true of all donors, even the ones who don't care about Israel, they're using the United States, our country, our government, our tax dollars are military to affect some private end. They basically privatized the US government. So as I'm going to use the US government to help my company, help my family, help another nation I'm more loyal to. And you have to ask like, who's fault is that? I mean, we spend a lot of time, and I do spend a lot of time like attacking Mary Madeleson. I actually don't even dislike Mary Madele. I know Mary Madeleson. I don't dislike her. I'm not mad at Mary Madeleson. There are other donors I'm mad at, right, Paul Singer or whatever. But that's kind of misplaced anger, really. What people would allow this? Like where's our self respect? Where's our love of our own children? It don't understand what we put up with it. It just don't understand like, how about no, I'm a father of four. So my role is how about no, I'm the no guy. That's my job. I don't say with Glee, I say because I have no choice and someone has to say it. And we're the no guys in our country like, how about no, you can't do that. And just say it unequivocally, not with hate and not by implying violence, but firmly rooted in principle. And again, love of country and love of your own family. How are your kids going to do in the system? I don't think very well. So I just wish there were more of that. I really blame us. I blame myself for going along with this for all these years that I was in Washington. And I always felt like it was kind of wrong. And again, it's not just the Israel lobby, which is the most powerful, of course, and the most ruthless by far, but it's hardly alone. It's the pharma lobby. It's crazy. The week after I got fired from Fox, Fox got all its pharma ads back. That's a fact. I mean, my staff were still there told me that and they were told that in a meeting. The company's getting the networks getting its pharma ads back. I was not even a particularly obsessed opponent of pharma. I'm not an expert on pharma. I was just like, I don't think the COVID-vax works and it seems like it's giving people I know heart attacks. Like, maybe we should slow down. I was very moderate on pharma. Maybe we shouldn't be giving everybody SSRI's and Adderall and benzodiazepines, like maybe that's not helping. My criticism were very mild, but even those were just too much. So you have a system in which the donor class really sincerely feels like they have a monopoly on speech and on action. If they won't tolerate any opposition at all, they're entitled. Why are they entitled? Because they've been allowed to control the system for so long that, of course, they feel that way. That's how you spoil a child. And by the time the kids 14, it's like, well, I can't, you know, they're completely unreasonable because you've catered to every whim. And so their expectation, understandably, is that every desire will be met instantaneously with what they want. Do you created this child? I blame the parents. And in this case, I blame our leaders for putting up with this crap. Like where's Ted Cruz' self-respect? I was elected to Congress to serve Israel. Can you hear yourself, Tubby? I don't think you can. Excuse me. So most of the snacks you could buy, your local corporate grocery store, are not real food. At all, they're made of weird chemicals, kinds of ingredients you can pronounce. You don't want to put that in your body, all those dyes, red, 40, yellow, five. No thanks. Grass-fed beef sticks from paleovali are totally different. Unlike most beef sticks, they are completely natural, and entirely free of something called encapsulated citric acid, zero encapsulated citric acid, paleovali uses old-world natural fermentation. That's the method that people have used for centuries. And that means what you eat is totally real. It's healthy, tastes good, no sugar, soy, nitrates, or any of this stuff, you'll find it gas station meat sticks. It's quick. It's easy. 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It's like none of us ever wants to take responsibility for our own crappiness. And the root of wisdom is, I suck. Okay, let's just start there. Not obsessive self-hatred, that's obviously pointless. And a kind of narcissism, actually. But just like an honest comparison of yourself to who you wanna be, to God, you know, we suck. So that is the one truth that no one ever tells. People rarely tell themselves that. And parties are just a collection of people. So yeah, they will not learn, no one ever learns. Okay, it's like Seinfeld, no learning, no growing. But they'll be taught. You know, you always hope for a world where people just, like take subtle cues, like we just got wiped out in the midterm election, maybe we should pivot and change. But unfortunately, the history of people suggests that it takes more than that. You really, you don't pull your hand back from the stove until your fingers start to melt. And you sort of hope that people wouldn't take that amount. You wouldn't have to like hurt someone. Or that person wouldn't have to hurt himself in order to learn an obvious lesson. But there's little evidence of that. So are we moving towards socialism? Obviously, obviously. Will it be good? Probably not. I mean, if socialism, if the socialism you're telling me we're getting is 1985 Stockholm, you know, Denmark in the 70s, it's fine. It's fine. It's not what I would create, but if you're saying it's, you know, Poland in the 70s, then you know, it's the worst possible thing we could have. Because, look, people are responding. Voters are responding to something real, which is it's no longer a middle class country and hasn't been since Obama's second term, 2015. The majority is no longer middle class. That's a huge massive change though. Like no one even noticed when it happened. I wrote a book about it, which no one seemed to read. But anyway, poor me, sorry, pardon the self-pity. But I felt that was the biggest thing that happened, you know, that decade at least. And people didn't know that it happened 'cause New York Times didn't put it on the front page, but they felt it. If this is not, this is like a very lopsided country, all of a sudden, and people who fly first class are flying like in a really comfortable way and the rest of us are traveling like animals. It didn't used to be that way. There wasn't as big a difference between the way the rich lived and everybody else lived. It's become like Mexico. We used to make fun of Mexico for that. Mexicans are nice. It wasn't an attack on the Mexican people. It was an attack on their system, which was pyramid-shaped and unstable as a result. That's how they get drug cartels. That's how Venezuela collapsed, and Hugo Chavez got elected. He was elected. That's how Hitler was elected. He was also elected. So like a wildly unequal economic system has political consequences every single time. And unfortunately, those consequences tend to make things worse, which is to say, I may be voting for a DSA member, a socialist, and the hope that this country will become more equal and less volatile, but what I'm almost certain to get is the system in which the connected and the already rich have much more power. Or we just get rid of the rich, we eat the rich. Okay, not too upset about the destruction of the billionaire class. Actually, I secretly favor it. But I don't lie to myself and think that they're going to be, that their money will, you know, somehow everybody will just be happier and calmer and better off. You're just getting a new billionaire class, and they're going to be the technocrats who administer the new system. And they're going to have guns unlike the billionaires. So no, I'm not hopeful at all. I'm not hopeful at all. But can I say one last thing? Because that's so grim. I do think that people's relationships have gotten better and more real in the past 10 years. I notice it in my own life, and I see it all around me. People are much clearer about what matters. There's much less frivolous talk. I know the masses are supposedly mass-marized by professional sports and drugs and all this stuff. That may be some truth in that. But in the world I live in, people are deep and honest and loyal to each other and families are closer. Like that is real. Every conversation I have, it's like, yeah, my kids are moving in next to me. That was not the America I grew up in at all. It's a much better version of it. So I think as all these terrible things are happening on a macro level, there are beautiful things happening on a personal level. And so I just want to be grateful for that. And I want to say that I'll add. Elizabeth K. from Seattle asks, Tucker, do you think the murder of Charlie Kirk will help or hurt the GOP in the midterms in the 2028 general election? And why? It's been a disaster. Well, for Charlie, his children in this widow, number one, for those of us who knew him well and loved him, number two, but for the country, number three. And for the Republican Party, I mean, Charlie was the single most important organizer in the Republican Party by far. They used to have this thing called the RNC was the Republican National Committee, and it had power, and you knew who ran it. Hayley Barber runs the RNC. It's a big deal. People sent money to the RNC. That's all gone. No normal person would ever send money to a party organization. The parties are totally corrupt. Like sending money to Scientology. Who would do that? You know, no. Charlie filled that void. It was turning point. You know, you want to get voters out. You want Ken Paxson to beat that Tallariko kid, whoever that guy is, creepy guy. You send money to turning point. And that's all done. They destroyed turning point. It was not completely on purpose. They destroyed MAGA. They destroyed the Republican Party. And the same people, the Neocons did it. And they did it on purpose. So Trump was elected for the second time in 2024 with the broadest coalition that the Republican Party's ever had. And you had, you know, hippie natural food moms from NAPA. You had a lot of black guys, a lot of Hispanic guys. And there were guys because the promise was a masculine leadership, which is what we need. By the way, Trump has to be re-feminized leadership. Very passive aggressive, bitchy leadership. The last thing we need, but whatever. Anyway, you have this huge coalition of people. And in the coalition, a tiny percentage, the smallest part of the coalition were the Neocons. We're like, no, we need to use the US military to fight worse for Israel. I don't want to grease with that. And they took over the party completely because of Trump, whatever they threaten Trump, clearly they threaten them, obviously. And he allowed it. And now they completely run the party. And it's like anyone who's not for that is not a real Republican. Really, I'm 57. I'm the son of a Republican official. I've been Republican my whole life. I interned in the Senate 40 years ago for a Republican. You are lecturing me about what it is to be a Republican. I don't think so. By the way, I've been carrying the Republican line in its water on television for 35 years. So all of a sudden, I'm a thought criminal. I mean, I don't really care. I've zero interest in any of it, really, at this point. But it's amazing how quickly it happened. And it's also amazing how quickly people can speak reality into existence. If you start saying something again and again no matter how ludicrous men can become women, no really, they can. After a while, people accepted us true. And you're seeing Trump do this with nuclear war right now. No, it's OK to use nukes. Well, we're going to have a nuclear exchange then. Because that's the nature of life. Words have holy power and also dark power, I would say. There's a reason we call them incantations or spells. Like, that's totally real. And they're talking into existence this new Republican party, which has no popular support whatsoever, and shouldn't. Because it's deranged. So yeah, they wrecked it. And one of the key things that happened, whoever did it, was the murder of Charlie Kirk. I mean, look at the turning point event this week. And it's all these speakers who Charlie Kirk didn't like. I'm not guessing I knew Charlie Kirk really well. He sat at this table with me more than once. And we talked about it. And so I'm not beating up in Ben Shapiro who I feel sorry for. I don't think Ben Shapiro is a bright future at all. But Charlie Kirk like despised Ben Shapiro. And how do I know that? Because he told me. And now Ben Shapiro is speaking twice. You know, it's like in all the people he asked to speak or not speaking, I'm not attacking anyone in particular. 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When you've been as humiliated as I have been serially over decades, there are not a lot of feelings left to hurt. So you're not gonna hurt my feelings. Trump abandoned me and his voters. Trump ran on a pretty specific slate of issues and beliefs and betrayed them all. And so I believe in loyalty. I married my high school girlfriend. I'm surrounded by people I've known my whole life. So I really do believe in loyalty. And I think I display it, but I think it's gotta be required. It's not a one way thing. Trump is in God, I don't worship men. And if Trump makes a mistake, I'm not anxious to point it out. Trump's made a lot of mistakes that I haven't mentioned that I know a lot about. Because I feel sad, I always have love Trump personally. And I still feel that. I'm not mad at Trump actually. He's not in charge. He's not running the country. I feel sorry for him. He's a puppet and a slave of larger forces. And that's very distressing to me as an American who believes in the democratic system. You can elect a guy to affect the change that you voted for. That's not how it works clearly. So I feel sad about it. I feel sad for him. He's 80. I mean, does it end well for him? I mean, the whole thing is a tragedy. But my commitment is to what I think is true. And I always say that with the caveat that I sometimes don't know it's true. And I certainly have been wrong a lot before. But there doesn't shake my belief that there is truth. And that we should pursue it even if I see it through a glass darkly. It's still there. And if somebody lies to you and you pretend it didn't happen, you're implicated in the why. And I don't want to be implicated in the lie. Also, you have no self-respect. Get some self-respect. Is this what you voted for? I don't think it is. It's not what he promised. So why are you making excuses for that? Like, what's wrong with you? I mean, it's human, I get it. We're so implicated in stuff that we don't want to admit that we've been burned. You know, the Gypsy takes 100 euros from you and three card money in your leg. Oh, that didn't happen. 'Cause you're an idiot for playing three card money with the Gypsies. You're gonna lose. So I get it, I get it. I feel it. I introduce Trump at the Republican National Convention on stage. I'm, you know, if anyone's implicated in this, it's me, but I think our commitment to the truth in our self-respect require us to admit that Gypsy just took 100 euros from us playing three card money, right? J.K. from Norton Shores, Michigan asks, looking back, do you feel there was more you could have done to persuade Trump from getting us into this mess of a war with Iran? What would these midterms look like without the war? You know, no, I spoke to Trump. I mean, I don't, it's all my calendar, but I talk to him dozens of times last winter, meaning in December, January and February about Iran and about Venezuela at great length. And I knew people in Venezuela and I knew a lot of people in the Middle East and I was in and out of the Middle East, I was in every country involved in this war in the weeks before the war. Israel, Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Jordan. I was in all those countries, like two weeks before the war and I was there, I know people in all those countries, but and I love those countries, but I was there talking about the war. So like I did everything that I felt I could do, what I didn't do was admit to myself that the war was actually coming. Like I couldn't believe it, I couldn't accept it. I never thought he would do this, he didn't want to do it. I know that because I talked to him about it at length. He had no enthusiasm for this at all. And I continued to believe against all evidence up until I woke up the morning the war started February 28th. I continued to believe he wouldn't do it. And I'm an idiot for that. And I think if I had really sincerely believed he was gonna do this, by the way there were other people around him by the same view, he's not really gonna do this. It's bringsmanship. It's not really gonna like launch a regime change war against Iran, we just had a war in June. You know the 12-day war, we took out their nuclear, you know this whole thing is so nuts, it can't happen. I felt the way about the Iraq war by the way in March of 2003. I knew Bush, I talked to Bush about it at the time. I was like he's not really gonna do this 'cause said I'm gonna do nothing with 9/11. So like why are we doing this? 'Cause Israel wanted it, that's why. But I didn't get any of that. Anyway, my sin, at least my conception of my sin is not being honest with myself about what was actually happening and I think if I had known for certain he was gonna do, I would have just sounded the alarm publicly more than I did. I mean I tried, I flew to Tel Aviv, which I didn't wanna do to talk to, how could be about it and all these other people. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm self-justifying, but that's just true. Yeah, they're gonna get crushed. This is the most unpopular war in American history and was from the first day. So why would voters reward that they're not going to? It's not just this war, the Epstein stuff heard a lot. Yelling at his own voters because they wanted to see the Epstein files, which he does not own. The US government doesn't own those files. We own them. We're the citizenry of this country. You're just passing through, dude. You're some federal employee or you're some politician, but those files belong to us. All of them, every single one of them, they have no right to keep those from us. And when he whipped around in that cabinet meeting and said, "Anyone who wants to see the files isn't MAGA," that was the moment where I was like, "Whoa, this is getting dark." What do you even talk about? And I talked to him about it. I was like, "What are you doing?" Oh, it's a Democrat plot, but it was, of course it wasn't a Democrat plot. There are other reasons that he's hidden those files. Millions of them remain unreleased, millions. And we have a right to see every single one of them. And the Department of Justice is a moral obligation to track down anyone who might have molested kids. What are you doing? Pizza and grape soda? Billionaires don't drink grape soda. No white billionaire has ever had a sip of grape soda ever in history. So don't tell me, pizza, and by the way, Jeffrey Epstein ate a lot of pizza? I don't think so. I eat a lot of pizza. That's why I get fat every year. Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a single slice of pizza in his entire freaking life. Do you see the guy? He's like Mr. Narcissus fitness dude. So when you've got dozens of emails talking about pizza and grape soda, it's fair for the DOJ to call the people in who are in those emails and be like, "Pizza and grape soda tell me more." And they haven't. Why haven't they? 'Cause they're protecting the criminals in the Epstein files. Well, okay, if you do that, I guess it's a trade, okay? Like you're getting something out of that? I have no idea what they're getting out of it. But what they're not gonna get is voter support. 'Cause nobody's for that, right? Michelle from Sacramento asks, "Tucker, "I've heard you say you're not interested "in running for president. "It's disappointing, but I understand. "Can you at least persuade your brother "uncle Buck to run?" - So the Uncle Buck presidency would be the greatest presidency probably since George Washington. Because Uncle Buck has a gut level understanding and feel for American culture that I've never seen anybody else. Like real American culture and a love of people. So I think leadership begins with love. I've always thought that. I think that's the core requirement of being a good dad. Not that you have any clue what you're doing. I kids at 25, I've always drunk half the time. I had no idea what I was doing. But I always liked my kids and so it turned out okay. And that's just true and at every level of leadership, if you love the people you're leading, of course you're gonna make mistakes and say ludicrous things and mislead them unintentionally. But you're not gonna hurt them irreparably because you love them. And our leaders don't love us. They have total contempt for us. We're just cattle to them as a tax farm clearly. And having a leader, I think Uncle Buck, you know, it'd be hilarious. But I think he'd be a great president actually You can see it. loves people. All people. Uncle Bucket don't think he's met anybody. He hasn't sniffed. He'll sniff anybody of any race or income level or gender. He just he loves people. Not in a creepy way, but he's like, he just likes people. And the more time he spends with people, the happier he is. He just loves it. He's like rolls around in it in other people. When was that time we had a leader like that? I can't remember. You know, they're all kind of really antiseptic, germophobic. I think they pretend they'll put on the hard hat or eat at the fast food restaurant. But like ultimately, you think they care about you? Not at all. He really does. So yeah, I'd vote for Uncle Buck in a second. Nick O. from Georgetown, Ohio asks, why does President Trump continue to push hyper-scale data centers and rural areas, which make up the strongest areas of his MAGA base? And he wonders why he's losing support. Trump hates himself and therefore hates anyone who loves him. Okay, so let's just start there. Let me restate. Trump hates himself. Therefore, he despises anyone who loves him. And I think his personal life and marriage history attest to that. But his public behavior attest to it too. So the more loyalty you showed to Trump, the more contempt he has for you. Loyalty's not rewarded. It's penalized. So Trump, the other day, does a podcast with Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, who went to jail, who's denounced Trump as a profession, and what he does for a living is denounced as Trump in the most personal, bitter ways. And Trump rewards that. So just know that the people Trump dislikes most are the ones who voted for him and remain loyal to him. They have no self-respect. He is contempt for that. He hates weakness and he hates people who love him. Fact. He's not the only one who feels this way. People who hate themselves are uniformly like this. You ever wonder why? And you've known people like this. They're like much nicer to like the valley parker and the waitress and the other on kids and wife. It's a very familiar thing. Well, that's what that is. They're rewarding loyalty and love with hate. Anyway, yeah, the thing I love about data centers is how undisguised the whole project is. No one is even pretending data centers are going to improve your life. You're like, oh, we're building a new prison and we're going to put you in it. And by the way, you're going to pay for it because humiliating you as part of our worldview or religion or whatever. I have to humiliate you. You have to dig your own grave. I'm not just going to execute you and throw you in a grave. You're going to dig it. And that's what data centers. But they're not pretending otherwise. They're not like, okay, we're going to build a data center in your county in Utah. And your life is going to go from crappy to awesome. They're like, no, we're building a data center and you're going to pay for it. And that money is going to go to people who are already richer than anyone's ever been in history to the billionaire class. And then your life is going to get way suckier. You won't have a job or any human autonomy. You get to make zero decisions. And the best you can hope for is like a check from the government. So you've become another welfare case. And how does that work or inherited money case? How inherited money people do? Like, if I cut you a check for a billion dollars at 23, would your life be happy? If I strung you along generationally on welfare, would your life be happy? We don't have to guess. We know we see the results. So paying people money for not doing anything is the fastest way to destroy them. Whether at the rich end or the poor end, it doesn't matter. It's the same principle. And that's the promise of data centers. That's the best case scenario for data centers. And they're just saying that out loud, how about I go for the government now? Like, are you kidding? That's what you're promising me. I know you're going to fall short of the promise. That's the best you can ask. You can offer me. So yeah, I think the whole thing is like, amazing in that they're not bothering to disguise it. And maybe the technology gives them the confidence they don't have to disguise it. Maybe it's like if we have enough flock cameras when AI, you know, becomes as powerful as we think it's becoming, your consent won't be necessary. Shut up and eat your gruel, bitch. That's kind of where I feel like we are. I don't, if we're not, like tell me how I'm wrong. I've never seen a product roll out this perverse. When Apple rolls out a new phone or where they'll lie to you about how great you're going to feel when you buy their product, of course, like you don't ever feel it's not a transcendent experience to buy something. Okay, the whole thing is fake. Okay. But at least they make the effort. Like our sneakers will make you. We're just talking off camera about Newport cigarettes advertising campaign in the 80s and 90s in it with the line was get some. And of course, the pitch was buy a deck of new ports and you're going to get the ladies. They're going to be you won't be able to keep them off you. I think that's not true. Or maybe it is true. I never smoked a new port, but at least they were like appealing to some desire you had. Even if it was a base desire, the data center AI thing is like, we're going to take all of your money and make your life way worse. I don't even I've never seen anything like it. Of course, Trump's for it. Of course, that's where the money is.