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Tucker Carlson

37 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 17 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2022 by David Sacks · said 178 times in 78 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Tucker Carlson's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (110), David Sacks (34), David Friedberg (12), Chamath Palihapitiya (12), John Fetterman (2), Vivek Ramaswamy (1), Steve Bannon (1), Peter Thiel (1)

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2022 28 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
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Everything said about Tucker Carlson, oldest first

Feb 5, 2022
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Tucker Carlson gets more young Democratic viewers than CNN or MSNBC
“Tucker Carlson now gets more young Democrats listening to his show than CNN and MSNBC”
David Sacks Feb 5, 2022 ▶ 1:19:15 E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
Jun 10, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Fox News lost half its viewership after Tucker Carlson left
“Fox is half of that now because they've traded so much viewership after Tucker left”
David Sacks Jun 10, 2023 ▶ 1:00:41 E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
Dec 1, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Fox News never gave Tucker Carlson an official reason for his firing
“I was never told I can only speculate.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 2:28 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Carlson: Tucker Carlson cannot imagine running for national public office
“The idea that I'm going to, at 54, like, run for national office, I, it's a little, You know what I mean? Like, I don't take myself quite that seriously. I mean, I can't imagine doing something like that.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:24:44 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carlson: Relentless technological change without pauses will destroy society
“If you impose that on a society, And you don't ever have a period where you pause and let things settle, you will blow up that society.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 20:58 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Sachs: Fox News ratings cratered after firing Tucker Carlson
“Their ratings really cratered in the wake of making this change.”
David Sacks Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 7:05 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Tucker Carlson says he was not angry about Fox News firing
“I wasn't that mad about it, actually, because I know the rules of that particular business, which are really harsh, and I've been in it, you know, my whole life, and so I've seen a lot of people as talented or more talented than I meet bad ends, And in, you kn…”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 7:43 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023
Disclosure
Carlson: Tucker Carlson Network brought almost entire former Fox News staff
“We brought our whole staff, almost our whole staff from Fox with us.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:21:41 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Four Fox News staff resigned in protest over Carlson's January 6 coverage
“A number of people, including on-air people, four that I can think of, resigned in protest over my, over me suggesting that actually it was more complicated than it looked, and there were a bunch of federal agents in the crowd.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 5:50 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Sachs: Tucker Carlson is the highest-rated host in cable history
“This is the highest rated host in cable history.”
David Sacks Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 0:26 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023
Disclosure
Carlson: Fox News executives never directly instructed him not to say something
“I personally never had a single person say to me, don't say this, That I recall, I haven't thought about it too much, but that certainly, I was there 14 years, and I didn't have that experience regularly, or at all, really, that I can remember”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 4:21 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Opinion
Tucker Carlson: Humans invent climate crises to reduce their prosperity
“We're not designed to be prosperous, and the second we are, we invent climate crises to make us less prosperous. I mean, that's really what that is, right?”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 32:07 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 1, 2023
Insight
Carlson: Americans focus on foreign wars to avoid facing domestic decline
“Like we care more about foreign wars and trans lives as like the obvious things that hold our society together start to fall apart. Cause like, how do you even deal with that? Am I, I'm, I don't know if I'm being very articulate, but I think that's what's happ…”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 16:57 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Opinion
Chamath: Tucker Carlson is intellectually curious with unique points of view
“I thought Tucker was incredible. I found him so intellectually interesting. And it's not always the case that great moderators and interviewers make great guests, but he is so intellectually curious and has unique points of view that you want to hear them out.…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 0:23 E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
Jan 26, 2024
Assertion Supported
Carlson: Yale study estimates U.S. undocumented population over 22 million
“Yale University released a study last week by three researchers, all the liberal, I believe, who concluded that the actual number of illegal aliens in this country is not eleven million. It's north of twenty two million.”
Tucker Carlson Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 52:31 E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
Feb 17, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Tucker Carlson asked Putin 43 questions, mostly softballs
“He asked 43 questions during the interview. About 15 of them were kind of softballs, and he had about six fastballs, but he lost control over the interview very early, obviously, if you watched it, and that's just kind of like losing power control.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 1:32:30 E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Opinion
Carlson: 510 members of Congress have given up on improving America
“Out of 535 members of the House and Senate, I would say 510 have given up on improving the United States through their jobs.”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 1:18:15 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
Jun 13, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Carlson: Nearly 50 million undocumented immigrants live in the US
“The real number is not twenty million, it's closer to fifty million, I think that's true illegals in the United States.”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 21:00 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Carlson claims no U.S. intel shows Iran assembling a nuclear weapon
“There's no American intelligence, this is a statement of fact, that suggests Iran is in the process of assembling a nuclear weapon or within months of doing so.”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 1:32:58 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carlson: Engagement with Iran over two days would derail Trump presidency
“I think a protracted, meaning anything over a day or two engagement with Iran would derail the Trump agenda and the presidency. And I think it could really sink this administration.”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 1:31:38 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker Carlson: Drug cartels are involved in LA riots and control California
“I do think the drug cartels are involved, flexing their authority in California. They have a lot of control in California, as I'm sure you know.”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 8:18 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
Jun 13, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tucker Carlson: Unrestricted interstate travel in US could end soon
“And I think the longer this continues, the greater the threat of disunion, the greater the threat of reaching a point where you, I don't know, you can't drive from New York to LA. We take a lot for granted in the country, and the main thing we take for granted…”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 7:29 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
Sep 9, 2025
Disclosure
Tucker Carlson says he would not consider running for president
“Not even for a second”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 59:09 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
Sep 9, 2025
Disclosure
Carlson says he is becoming highly religious at rapid speed
“I've never been a super religious person. I'm certainly becoming one, that's for sure, at high speed.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 48:07 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
Sep 9, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Carlson refuses to invest in financial assets, buying only physical goods
“I'm not an investor. I don't invest in anything, but in the things that I buy with an eye to retaining value, they're physical things. I just don't believe in any of this. At all.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 30:33 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
Sep 9, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carlson: Trump told him 50 million uncounted people live in US
“Trump told me directly he thought it was fifty million.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 27:41 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
Sep 9, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carlson: AI displacement of lawyers and non-profit workers will trigger revolution
“If you do that to lawyers and nonprofit sector employees who I lived around in D.C., you will get a revolution, and I mean that.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 35:39 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Tucker Carlson: Pre-Trump U.S. government made no effort to serve popular desires
“Clearly, we're on, sort of like, or were, up until Trump's election, sort of at one end, where there's no demonstrable effort by the government to meet, like, the basic desires of the population, doing just the opposite.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 21:07 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
Sep 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Friedberg: YouTube Restricted Mode filters Tucker Carlson vs. Mark Cuban video
“I can confirm that Tucker and Mark Cuban also get filtered.”
David Friedberg Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 1:06:15 Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
Dec 13, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker Carlson claims sexual orientation is driven primarily by nurture, not genetics
“Clearly it's not nature, at least primarily, or we wouldn't be having an absolute rise in it, and there would be some hint of a gene responsible for it. I mean, so many different you know, genetic manifestations have been isolated from the decoding of the huma…”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 1:28:34 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker Carlson says he gets along with Donald Trump better than ever
“So no, I get along with him literally in 25 years better than I ever have.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 2:55 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Tucker Carlson: Inherited wealth and welfare both deprive people of purpose
“Having grown up Both around inherited money and welfare, you know, both are, you know, two sides of the same coin. Like, people need to feel like they're contributing and that their lives have meaning”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 1:20:57 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025
Disclosure
Tucker Carlson is purchasing a house in Qatar
“I'm buying a house in Qatar to make the simple point.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 1:23:25 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tucker Carlson predicts identity politics in America will end in violence
“And in its absence, then we get a lot of people popping up and being like, well, all white people over here, and all black people, or Jewish people, or whatever. That's not gonna work. That will end in violence. Everyone knows that.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 29:45 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025
Disclosure
Carlson: Called Nick Fuentes a Fed after Fuentes attacked his father
“I, unfortunately, it's such a long story. I won't even bore you with it, but he attacked my father at one point, so I got baited into it, and I called him a Fed.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 48:19 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025 negative
Opinion
Tucker Carlson: Legacy news brands like CBS and CNN cannot win hearts and minds
“Buying CBS news is like buying RCA records or something. It, like, just doesn't have any effect, and only people who are not paying attention or pretty cut off think that you're going to win hearts and minds by being, buying CBS news or CNN. These are, these b…”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 7:16 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Dec 13, 2025
Disclosure
Tucker Carlson says he has no investors, no debt, and took no Qatari money
“I've never taken a dollar from Qatar or anyone else. I have no investors and no debt”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 1:23:31 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
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