Tucker Carlson Apologizes to Trump ‘And Everyone Else I’ve Snapped At’ – Including ‘Poor Ted Cruz’
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson apologized to President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), “and everyone else I’ve snapped at” on Monday during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Asked about Trump’s claim that Carlson had called him to apologize after criticizing U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in June, Carlson said:
I am a champion apologizer. I really believe in apologies, I have a lot to apologize for, I always have. We all do. I certainly do. But I also think that, you know, you shouldn’t proffer a false apology. You should apologize for things that you did wrong, you know, and I didn’t do anything wrong there, and I wasn’t attacking anybody. I wasn’t attacking Israel. I wasn’t attacking. I was merely saying, “In my capacity as someone with strong opinions, I think this is an unwise course.”
And I still think that. It’s not an attack on Trump, who I voted for and campaigned for and really like. It’s my view and so that’s not something I would apologize for because it wasn’t wrong, it was my duty, and I still believe it.
“That seems to be a clear repudiation of what he said,” responded Piers Morgan, to which Carlson insisted, “No, it’s not that. It’s just that, look, I said what I said, which wasn’t very complex or sophisticated. It certainly wasn’t hate-filled.”
He continued, “You know, I will just be totally honest with you and say I’m kind of an unpleasant person when I get mad, and like if I’m ever rude, which I often have been to people, that is worth apologizing for, and I’m sorry. I want to pre-emptively apologize for being a jerk because I often am.”
Morgan asked, “I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but could it have been you apologized, perhaps for the tone of the way you criticized what Trump had done rather than apologize for your view of what he did?”
“I have no idea if I actually did that, but if I haven’t done that, let me do it now,” replied Carlson. “I apologize to him and everyone else I’ve snapped at or been mean to, even poor Ted Cruz, who, you know, I don’t think is the most evil. He’s just controlled by a foreign power. I feel sorry for him, he’s like kind of desperate and wants money or whatever his motive is, but I was rude to him and I’m sorry.”
He concluded, “I’m just that way. People in my family have pointed that out, when I get mad, I get snappy and cutting. I went to boarding school as a kid. They inculcate that in you. The cruelty of the dorm. And I’ve been fighting against it my whole life, so I’m just– I’m sorry.”
Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.
