The relationship between President Donald Trump and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has had many ups and downs over the years. For much of Trump’s first presidency, when Carlson was still on Fox News, Carlson was mostly supportive of Trump’s agenda, although they had occasional disagreements. When Trump was out of office, and after Carlson was fired from Fox following the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, Carlson was found to have once said that he hates Trump “passionately.”
Tucker Carlson is caught off guard by interviewer “Trump said you apologised to him on the phone… is that true?”
Tucker laughing sarcastically: “Okay…no” pic.twitter.com/pB29MUjBSS
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) July 21, 2025
The two men later seemed to bury the hatchet, with Trump sitting for interviews with Carlson after he started running for president again. Carlson both spoke at the 2024 Republican convention and even appeared at Trump rallies late in the 2024 campaign.
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But since Trump returned to the White House, he and Carlson have resumed their disagreements, most notably over the Administration’s bombing of Iran, as Carlson is more of a pure isolationist.
In a newsletter in mid-June, titled “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War,” Carlson wrote about Israel’s strikes on Iran, and speculated that Iran’s retaliation “would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country’s behalf.” This was more than a week before the U.S. itself bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, but that was more about seeking to “obliterate” Iran’s nuclear facilities, to use Trump’s words, than fighting against Iran’s retaliation against Israel.
A few days later, Trump claimed that Carlson had called him to apologize.
“Tucker is a nice guy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in late June. “He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong, and I appreciated that.”
Per HuffPost, Carlson is disputing that. In fact, Carlson denied that such a call had even took place, in a recent interview with a German newspaper.
“Okay… no,” the commentator said when asked about the call.
“No, I will say this … I don’t care. I really like Trump. I campaigned for Trump. I just, to say it again, I agree with Trump, I have agreed with Trump on the issues,” Carlson told Bild. He even said he would be happy to apologize, even though he didn’t really before.
So essentially, Carlson is saying that Trump lied about him, about a matter of war and peace, but that he doesn’t mind it.
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