Tucker Carlson turns on Trump, apologizes for 'misleading people'

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Apr 21, 2026

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Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson apologized for supporting President Donald Trump during a repentant discussion with his brother Buckley Carlson.

“You wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him. I mean, we’re implicated in this, for sure,” the podcaster confessed on Monday’s “The Tucker Carlson Show.”

Buckley says he voted for Trump three times and worked on the president’s successful 2016 campaign. He agreed the man he and his older brother endorsed hasn’t turned out to be the president they hoped he’d be. Chief among their complaints is the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the war in Iran that Trump joined Israel in starting in February.

“In real ways, you and me, and millions of people like us, are the reason this is happening right now,” Tucker said.

Tucker was among Trump’s more vocal supporters on the 2024 campaign trail. The former Fox News host called Trump “a wonderful person” at the Republican National Convention on the night the candidate from New York City accepted his party’s nomination for the third time.

On Monday’s show, Tucker told his brother the two of them had to come to terms with the consequences of their actions.

“We’ll be tormented by it for a long time,” the host lamented. “I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional.”

Buckley said he doesn’t know “a single person” who doesn’t feel betrayed by Trump.

MAGA media figures Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones and Candace Owens have also become critical of the president in his second term in office. Trump lashed out at them and Tucker in a long, rambling social media post earlier this month.

“They have one thing in common, low IQs,” the president said, also calling them “stupid people.”