Overview
- In a New York Times interview published Saturday, reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro pressed Tucker Carlson on whether he had asked if President Trump could be the Antichrist, which he denied before the show played a clip of him doing so.
- Confronted with the footage, Carlson offered a conditional apology, saying, “my apologies… if there’s a video of me saying that,” and he argued he does not fully understand the concept and would state it plainly if he believed it.
- Carlson said his goal was to discuss spiritual forces at work in politics, while also labeling Trump a “false prophet” and calling Trump’s profane Easter post on Truth Social “vile.”
- The clip spread quickly on X, where figures such as former Alberta premier Jason Kenney and ex-GOP congressman Joe Walsh blasted Carlson’s denial and questioned his credibility.
- The moment adds a new turn in a wider rift on the right that has featured religious framing, earlier disputes over Iran policy, and fights over AI Jesus imagery, with left-leaning outlets highlighting the real-time fact-check.