Tucker Carlson

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American paleoconservative television host and political commentator who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.

Carlson became a print journalist in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005 and co-host of the network's prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he hosted the nightly program Tucker on MSNBC. He has been a political analyst for Fox News since 2009, appearing as guest or guest host on various programs before the launch of his current show. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the conservative news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020. He has written two books: a memoir, Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites (2003), and a political book, Ship of Fools (2018). As of April 2021, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the most-watched cable news show in the United States.

An advocate of former U.S. president Donald Trump, Carlson was described by Politico as "perhaps the highest-profile proponent of 'Trumpism' and willing to criticize Trump if he strayed from it". He is also said to have influenced some of Trump's key policy decisions, including the canceling of a military strike against Iran in 2019. Carlson's remarks on race, immigration, and women – including slurs he said on air between 2006 and 2011 (which resurfaced in 2019) – have provoked accusations of racism and sexism, as well as advertiser boycotts of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Carlson is a vocal opponent of progressivism and critic of immigration, and has been described as a nationalist. Originally a supporter of libertarian economic policy, Carlson later criticized the ideology as "controlled by the banks" and became a protectionist. He has been skeptical of foreign interventions by the U.S. He renounced his initial support of the Iraq War but said he had "zero sympathy" for the people of Iraq.