Tucker Carlson Has Officially Left The Republican Party— Calling Them Out For A Lack Of Loyalty To The U.S.

Tucker Carlson spent 35 years defending the Republican Party, and he spent the better part of 2026 calling Trump’s Iran war treasonous, suggesting the president might be the antichrist and apologizing to his audience for misleading them into supporting him. On June 18, he made it official.

“I would not support the Republican Party. There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party,” Carlson said on the Can’t Be Censored podcast, answering the obvious follow-up before it arrived. “I’m not going to support the Democratic Party — I’m not sure what I’m going to do.”

The reasoning was not hard to locate.

“How could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens. It’s not possible to vote for people like that, and I’m not going to.”

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The foreign country in question is Israel, and Carlson has argued consistently since February that the Iran war was not an American decision. “What we know for certain is that the United States went to war with Iran — a war we are losing, that we’ve effectively lost already — because of pressure from the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,” he said.

Trump has held the opposite position with equal consistency.

“If anything, I might’ve forced Israel’s hand,” he said in March. This month, he told the Financial Times: “I call the shots. I call all the shots. [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.” He also declared in March that Carlson “isn’t MAGA,” telling ABC’s Jonathan Karl: “Tucker has lost his way. I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things.”

The falling out between them had been accumulating since February, when Carlson visited Israel for an interview with US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and was subsequently stopped by airport security upon departure, an encounter he described as a detention and Israeli authorities described as routine passport control.

By April 20, Carlson and his brother Buckley were on air openly expressing regret for their years of Trump support. “You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time,” Tucker said.

The June 18 remarks closed with unsolicited advice for JD Vance, whom Carlson considers a personal friend. He suggested Vance should hold press conferences from his home and attack Trump publicly, saying that if he were in Vance’s position, “I’d say I’m out.” He then extended that logic outward. “I’m out. And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.”