'I'm OUT': Tucker Carlson Says DONE With Republican Party Over Israel

So we wanted to zoom out a little bit from the Iran war and check in on how things are going overall for the Trump administration and the Republican Party as a whole.And a good place to begin our journey here today is with some interesting Tucker Carlson comments.Let's take a listen.

I would not support the Republican Party.There's no chance I would support the Republican Party.Not going to support the Democratic Party.I don't know what I'm going to do.But at this point, you know, how could you support?How could I or any American voters support a political party that's not loyal to the United States that puts the interest of a foreign country above those of its own citizens?

Like that's that's, you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that.And I'm not going to.And I think I voted Republican my entire life.I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC.I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party.I mean, very consistent defender.

But there's no defending this because it's immoral.And it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation.And they're not doing that.So no, I'm out.

I'm out.Let's say, when did he become interesting?2017, like really?That's whenever the Tucker show started, and that's when you started to see some of the breaks, and there were some challenging interviews and all that.But so let's say that's like the last nine years.Up until that point, I mean, he'd already had these private views, but really he was playing the game like in public, and he was defending a lot of other Republican positions.

Yeah, oh, I know.To this day, he says this is the worst job here.Worse than MSNBC.and worse than CNN.Don't blame him.I couldn't do it either, doing some fake concert in Times Square at 5 .45 a .

m.Oh my God, yeah.He's not built for it.I'm not built for it either.I'd be like, what the fuck am I doing here?We're playing a water gun game in Times Square?

Anyway, all right, let's put that aside.I can do it.You think so?Yeah.I have that in me.You have a better personality than I do.

I'm just too disagreeable.But whenever it comes to Tucker, this is, I think the point that he's making is around Israel.And I actually do think this is a very important point, and I actually blame myself for it as well.So let's think to the calculation that was made in 2024.The calculation was this.Anybody with open eyes knew Miriam Adelson had given Trump $100 million, all right?

And you can all roll the tape in the monologue that I did up and before the election, it was in October, and I said, if you're pro -Israel, you should vote for Trump, because you're gonna get some of what you want.This was clear -eyed, we knew this.However, what we thought was, well, J .D.'s the vice president, there's all these, you know, Steve Bannon, the so -called anti -war coalition seems stronger.These forces will have equal weight within the coalition, right?In some cases, the Israelis will win.

Everyone was clear -eyed about this.We knew that they were gonna get what they wanted in Gaza.Now, did we think we would get the Iran war?No, like, genuinely no.We could tell you this from Trump's comments, from J .D.'s comments, from Stephen Miller's comments.

I could go on and on.What has happened is that actually, even now, you know, oh, the Israelis are melting down because they're not getting 100 percent of what they want.But if we look at the long, you know, long network now of Trump's actions from January 20th, 2024, 2025, up until today, the balance of power is overwhelmingly on behalf of the Israel lobby.So I do think Trucker's comments about saying I cannot support them while they're literally enslaved to a foreign power is true in the sense that if the Israelisis in your coalition whatsoever, you have to just assume that they will overwhelmingly use their money, their power, their influence, their media arm, the propaganda, to take full control.And that's why it basically just has to be, this is where I'm personally at, is if you are taking Adelson money, if these people are a part of your coalition, I cannot be part of that.

And it's not even just like a morality thing, because now there's that to it too, but we know how much influence and operate they have.I think the Democrats have all discovered this as well.Like there's whole, you know, track AIPAC, we have to give them credit for it.Track AIPAC made it.So they're like, there's no splitting the difference here, guys.Like you're either in or you're out.

The voters are on the outside.A lot of the establishment is on the inside.The GOP, there's everybody's still trying to play the dance.You know, the aspirational politicians.I don't think politically that it can happen at this point.And look already, where we are.

The Iran deal polling that came out in CBS, where MAGA Republicans support the deal.80 % of the American people support ending the war now, even though they know that we lost.The political constituency of neoconservatism is so tiny that I actually do think we just need either both parties or one party, whoever it is.But I personally, and I think a lot of people can as well, you cannot expect to have equal weight coalitions ever again.After what has happened, we can only go off of what we see now currently.Currently, the evidence exists.

And I'm not just talking about the Iran war.How about bombing Iran back in June?How about deporting all of these student protesters?

Have you seen the shit with the coffee shop?What's going on right now?

Okay, let's talk about it, right?Because this is important.So there's a New York City coffee shop, and what did they do?Dan Goldman, the congressman, came in, and I think they found out who he was later.They refunded him.They're like, you're not welcome because you support Israel's genocide.

Okay, well, guess what?Now, this is a full -blown freakout.the Department of Justice is opening an investigation into this coffee shop.I've been around since Masterpiece, okay?We have the right to refuse service as long as it's not based on race or whatever the protected classes of the Civil Rights Act is.If it's based on a disagreement over Israeli policy, to me, yeah, I mean, a little weird, you know, to be doing, but guess what?

Or they refunded his money.Right.Okay.

I mean, whatever.Right.Sorry.Like, by the way, I don't give a shit.There's much bigger problems that are all around.New York City has got a lot bigger problems for, I think, for the Department of Justice.

The Department of Anti -racism stuff or Department of Anti -Semitism, which I've been calling it, this Leo Terrell fanatic, this what with the Florida students with the IDF shirt.I mean, this is I can't live like this.That's how I feel.

Well, and it comes at a time when J .D.Vance is out there saying if everything is Jew hate, then nothing is Jew hate.It's like, OK, well, where is that in terms of your administration's policy?Because it's been quite the opposite in terms of what we've seen.I mean, it's very interesting.

It reminds me that going back to the Tucker comments and also, you know, the way you're explaining your position.It does remind me of some of the, like, disaffected left basically saying, okay, we're done with the Democratic Party, you know, for many very legitimate reasons, many of them moral, also having to do at times with genocide.But then it becomes, okay, well, what then?Yes.You know, and I guess it also comes to a question of Neither of the parties is going to be a perfect fit for you.So where are your moral priorities?

Or are you going to try to do some third -party thing?Are you, Tucker Carlson, going to run for president and say you're going to be the one to restore the Republican Party to what it should be, et cetera, et cetera?

He said explicitly, he's like, you never would do that in this interview.I mean, I could be wrong.

I mean, I know him.I don't think he would run for president.I kind of agree with that.Not because there's not an opening available.He's a very talented, I think, and very savvy person.But I'm not sure that, you know, lifestyle like it's not fun running for president.

You know, he gets to, like, live in Maine and do his thing, and he's got a great life, I'm sure, making lots of money, et cetera.So, in any case, it does just become a question of, okay, well, what then?And he immediately says, of course, the Democrats are totally off the table, and it's like, okay, well, at some point, you have to evaluate what are my moral priorities.The Democratic Party is the party.right now is still very much in the Zionist establishment Israel status quo place.

And it's a civil war, too.

However, yeah, however, you are much more likely at this point, given where the Democratic coalition is, to have a complete change on Israel and the Democratic Party than you are in the Republican Party.Because the only group out there in the public that still die hard, pro -Israel, Israel no matter what, are boomer Republicans.And that is who dominates the Republican Party base.Like, your average Fox News viewer is way more important to the Republican Party than your, like, super online griper, who, you know.So, in any case...It's interesting to me, and we'll see where he goes from here, but obviously very noteworthy that he is coming on so strongly as to saying, I'm done.

I'm not doing this anymore.And it really is in a way, I don't want to overstate it.It's kind of an end of an era because Tucker Carlson has been one of the most known faces of Republican Party defense.for, you know, as long as I have been aware of politics, going back to the bowtie days, I mean, crossfire and all of that.

When I was born, like that's what's so great.And I, you know, I, he gave me my job just to show you how long this guy's been around for.I do think, I mean, the left analogy is very interesting and I don't disagree with you.Like, look, You and I are not third party people, much to the chagrin of a very online slice.Like, sorry, it doesn't work.Trump showed the path.

I mean, not Trump.Every aspiring great politician has shown the path.You take over a party and you make it your coalition, period.End of story.

Some of us thought that's what Trump was doing.

OK, and by the way, though, you know, you see now even more clearly when Trump does pivot and use his cult of personality for good, like or at least, you know, to rectify his own wrong.The whole base will will come along crawling for you.That's that's what being a very powerful leader is.That's how FDR was.That's any any of the transformative politicians, Eisenhower, any of these people.Actually, the Eisenhower one is a good example.

The GOP throughout the entire FDR Truman era was built around opposition to the New Deal.was, it was a very small, like Calvin Coolidge, like, oh, the welfare communist.And Eisenhower was like, yeah, that shit's over.Like, we're just going to end that.And guess what?He won the popular vote, not just in terms of who he was, because he had enormous prestige.

He transformed the Republican Party forever and gave birth to this kind of like Nixonianism, which embraced the role of government, but in a conservative form, leading to the EPA and some of the other good things that the Nixon administration did.My only point is that what you can do is you can use that cult of personality or leadership or whatever you want to call it, to take over.The Democrats, like you said, are in the civil war.Is he going to vote Democrat?I mean, honestly, maybe.

It depends on who the candidate is. I mean, if I'm thinking about him in Maine.You have to actually think about who is the candidate.Isn't it easier to imagine him voting for Graham Plattner than Susan Collins?

Well, OK, did you see Susan Collins's interview yesterday?Yeah.I mean, this is insanity.Like, this woman is not only nearly 80 years old, but she's like, well, AIPAC is just a bunch of Americans who love Israel.And what else did she say?She was like, and Graham is so Some anti -semitic for calling out.

I'm like lady.

This shit is not gonna fly anymore She said a pack is made up of Americans who care deeply about our relationship with Israel.That's true Yeah, flattener makes it sound like this is some sort of evil foreign influence and that is absolutely wrong She also said I remain a very strong supporter of Israel.I think this sadly reflects rising anti -semitism in our countryPlatner is certainly part of.

main specific issues than any other national television host who would interview him.But like you said, zooming out, it depends.And ultimately, someone made this point.You don't vote for parties, you vote for candidates, like it's about the candidate.

So let's see.Especially at the presidential level.

Especially at the presidential level, you're right.Right, because, you know, Democrat, Republican in the House, Senate, 90 % of the time these people just vote party line.

Yeah, and it matters more who has the majority and who's being elected Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader than, you know, if you're president, then yes, the individual person makes more of a difference.

Yeah, this is why in red states they often can elect blue governors, is because they're executives.So they trust, you know, that person to oversee things differently, even though they might vote Republican.I don't know.I mean, and I know this is a bit long -winded, but I do think it's important to talk just about how the coalitions and all of that evolve.like let's see who the Democratic presidential nominee is and we can all evaluate based on that.A lot of Democrats voted for Trump or former Democrats or any of these other people.

A lot of Republicans may vote for a Democrat whenever it comes to 2028.I have no idea, but that's where the candidate matters more than anything.

Yeah, so we will see.We also want to check in on, you know, my thesis is effectively that the Iran war really just destroyed the Trump presidency.Like all of the grandiose goals, not to say there isn't still lots of harm being done, but in terms of the most maximalist aims of the Trump administration coming out, you know, out of the gates with Doge and then they havemass deportation.They're buying all these warehouses.National Guard is invading cities.

Protests are getting shot in the streets.That has all been dialed back a lot in terms of the at least public image and the sort of aggressive posture.A lot of that really happened after Minneapolis.And there was a I think I was skeptical at the time, frankly, but I think there truly was a retreat from the Trump administration in terms of their, again, aggressive public posture.You brought in Mark Wayne Mullen.You got rid of Kristi Noem.

And so now we've seen a few interesting things on the immigration front, which really was the core of their their the place where they probably did have the biggest mandate, that and dealing with cost of living, which we all know how that has gone.In any case, let's put C2 up on the screen because this was such an emblem of the Trump administration approach, which was very showy.It was meant to be showy cruelty with the intent of signaling to immigrants that just get out before you find yourself in Alligator Alcatraz, or you find yourself being dragged and your kids being torn apart, all of that, right?That was an intentional direction led by Stephen Miller and Christy Noem.So now Alligator Alcatraz is actually shutting down permanently.This was in Florida.

Ron DeSantis was very gung -ho.In fact, Florida taxpayers fronted the $1 billion that went into this monstrosity.It was beset by problems from the very beginning.Sewage overflows, worms in the food.You had, you know, abhorrent conditions because it is basically in a swamp.It was never meant to have this many people being held for indefinite periods of time.

The federal government was supposed to reimburse Florida.They're still holding the bag on that one.That money has not come through.And now the whole thing is being completely shut down, which, again, I think is, you know, very emblematic ofthe fact that they, not only on cost of living, but really across the board, they have lost their mandate on even their strongest issue coming in.

Yeah, George W. Bush's presidency.It turns out that when you launch a disastrous war, you have no political capital to do literally anything.And then you are one Katrina away from being 25%, like 25 % in terms of your approval rating.You're right.By the way, I hope that we don't bail out Florida and I hope that they have to raise property taxes instead.Anybody else sick of bailing Florida out?

All right.Paid too much money to Florida.I know I've spoken against that type of rhetoric in the past, but you know, whenever they're considering abolishing their property tax, you know, somebody has to draw the line.But you know, on the immigration front, let's just think about this very very like logically on timeline.They came in with the mandate.The mandate was against chaos at the border.

Then they decided and they had two paths.One was allegedly, I mean, reportedly pushed by Tom Homan, which is we need an orderly arrest process.By the way, you know, not a shrinking violet, Tom Homan.He was like, we need to launch, use this new budget to target these criminals.And instead of doing a large scale civilian tile raids in blue states, he's like, let's just launch across the nation.We can do a few of those types of targets.

the media disaster whenever it comes to public relations, which is then immediately followed by a major international crisis.So in the interim of this what's been almostfollowed by a time and saying they're pushing people like me out of the Republican Party, so sort of like the... country club type Republicans, which is he's the biggest emblem of, you'll start to see more of that.

And you mentioned the warehouses, put C3 up on the screen.This was another one of those big emblems of their, you know, grandiose plans.You remember who?I don't remember who it was that said they wanted to turn the deportation mechanism into like Amazon, where you had vans zipping around and people being literally warehoused in these type of facilities.And if you're going to accomplish what Steve Miller and the rest of them want to accomplish, you would need this kind of space.To Sagar's point, so now ICE is selling a bunch of these warehouses that they had purchased.

They spent $700 million on seven warehouses.Now they're trying to get rid of them.And to your point, it was a problem in, most of these were located in very rural, very Republican areas, but it became like a NIMBY thing where they're like, wait, what?is this going to mean for my water bill?What is it going to mean for my wastewater treatment plant?why I'm going to have all of these people, like, what does this mean for my community?

And so there was huge backlash in these places.And again, if you were at a different point in the Trump administration where they had more of a mandate and able to just sort of like bulldoze through that local public pressure, especially from fellow Republicans, then it would be a different deal.But the other thing is, you know, all of this was half -baked to begin with.Warehouses are not set up to be able to hold human beings for any period of time, you know, just in terms of what would be required in terms of renovating these things.So it became a complete boondoggle.And even though they have effectively all the money in the world that they could possibly want to buy these places and rehab them to, you know, serve the purpose, et cetera, they just decided, you know what, we're not doing this.

We're getting rid of this.And one more on this front with regard to immigration, put C1B up on the screen, because this just happened yesterday.And we were talking about Minneapolis and the way that that genuinely did mark a huge turning point.in terms of the Trump administration's approach on immigration.You don't have a judge blocking these DOJ subpoenas that were aimed at Tim Walz and other, I think that Mayor Jacob Frey and some other Democratic officials in the state of Minnesota, calling them blatantly unlawful, seeing them as direct threats.sort of political retribution.

They said initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or coerce them into taking official action, particularly official action the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take, is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand jury process.This was a George W. Bush -appointed chief judge who believed, I Correctly so, that the subpoenas were aimed at sort of bullying and intimidating Tim Walz into cooperating with them on what they wanted him to do with the case.to immigration.And, you know, you may think like, OK, this probably would have played out regardless of what happened with Minneapolis, regardless of the strength of the Trump administration.But judges are very political creatures, and they do also put their finger in the wind and see where the public mood is and see where things are shifting.And on that note, we can put C4 up on the screen.

We've got SCOTUS set to rule on a few different matters, including the Trump administration administration's opposition to birthright citizenship, an attack on birthright citizenship.And it looks like in these three key rulings, two of which have to do with like, you know, who you can hire and fire.And the other one is the birthright citizenship thing.It looks like in two out of the three, they're going to go against Trump.Mostly throughout the administration, they have kind of given Trump what he wanted.The two significant Rulings that went against him were on Kilmar -Abrego -Garcia, where they said the way you did this was not right.

And the other one was on tariffs, which I think was a huge, huge deal.He was very, very mad about the tariff ruling.And now you have this set to go, you know, two of three.against him.Again, I think these are highly, highly political actors.They're not just weighing the merits of this case.

They're also looking at the public mood and how strong the president is and concerned about their own legitimacy and whether or not there's going to be some extraordinary actions taken by Trump to go around them or pack the courts or defy them outright.And so the fact that they feel comfortable to issue two rulings against him at this point, I think, is also a sign of the times.

easy historical analog is FDR.Whenever the court struck down his court packing plan, he never recovered.And that's actually the first time that the Senate and a lot of the congressional Democrats and others decided to defy him.And they had to look to this public pressure, this public pressure.And they're like, oh, wedefy Not everything is one -to -one.

I'm just pointing to, as you said, the political winds, where things go, and when you lose here, and what we're about to talk about here with affordability and with housing very specifically, you just cause yourself, it's like death by a thousand cuts.And there were so many over the course.Iran is definitely the turning point.I think the midterms are gonna be a big one.I genuinely, my like modus, like the way that I'm thinking framework -wise for Trump too, this is the last two years, is just the Clinton presidency.Clinton from 98 to 2000, he lived in hell.

He lived in Lewinsky hell.He could do nothing.Everything was just Congress, you know, bitching about this, Congress calling you for this, press conference over this, just constant warfare with the congressional Republicans, with Kenneth Starr, and with all of that.People were in open revolt.And Clinton still had 60 -something percent approval rating, but it didn't matter because the whole political system was against him.He got literally nothing done in those two years.

So I think that's basically what it's going to look like.

You make a good point, though, that presidents who are on the rocks with public approval and don't have political support remaining in Congress, what do they do?they turned to foreign policy.I mean, we already see that really with Trump.And so even after the Iran war, if it resolves here, which big question marks there, obviously what's it going to be next?Is it going to be Cuba?Is it going to be Greenland?

Is it going to be Cuba and Greenland?Is it going to be something else?I mean, I could definitely see him continuing to go in that direction because that's the area where he has the most unilateral power.And we saw the same thing with Biden and his obsession with like, you know, NATO and AUKUS and all of that.I mean, it was partly like hisdeclining brain, but it was also his declining power with regard to the public and any sort of political mandate.

Tale as old as time, Obama, JCPOA, you know, it's like they all.At least he did something good with it.No, I know, but I'm more just saying like, when they lose their power in Congress, they just all look abroad.They're all, you know, egomaniacs obsessed with their own legacy.So that is unfortunate, I think, for us, especially probably for Cuba.Okay, let's get to housing.

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