Uncomfortable! Tucker Carlson delivers pre-recorded messages to conservative conference in Hungary, joking in his old Fox News studio that he’d be there if he ‘ever got fired’
- Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News on April 23 after 14 years with the network
- The pre-recorded clip was shown at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest, Hungary
- Carlson jokes about attending conference if he ‘had time and could leave’
A pre-recorded video link aired at a conservative conference in Hungary featuring Tucker Carlson at his old Fox News studio and joking that he’d be there in person if he “ever got fired” — despite the host’s abrupt resignation on April 23 .
The embarrassing clip of the commentator in his former Tucker Carlson Tonight studio aired Thursday at the start of a “No Woke Zone” panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.
Carlson was fired from Fox News last Monday after 14 years for reasons that are not yet entirely clear.
Since his departure, videos have been leaked from his canceled streaming show showing Carlson unloading on Fox Nation and making fun of his “post-menopausal fans.”
Carlson probably recorded the comments weeks ago, but they weren’t updated before they aired at the conference — rather than the host joking about recent shock events.
The clip aired at the start of a ‘No Woke Zone’ panel discussion in the Hungarian capital
The awkward pre-recorded clip shows Carlson in his former Tucker Carlson Tonight studio
“Greetings to CPAC Hungary and all Americans in the audience,” Carlson said in the clip.
‘You are very brave. You landed on one of [U.S. Agency for International Development chief] Samantha Power’s list, State Department keeping it! You have gone to a forbidden land!’
He continued, “I wish I was there in Budapest. If I ever get fired and have some time and can leave, I’ll be there with you.
“But in the meantime, Godspeed, we’re thinking of you and cheering you on.”
The opening day of the conference also featured a speech by Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban, whom Carlson has long supported.
Carlson formerly broadcast its primetime Fox News slot from within the country and has also appeared in conferences.
He often spoke on his show about what the US could “learn” from Hungary and interviewed Hungary’s foreign minister on his primetime show in January 2022, despite the country’s strict immigration and anti-LGBTQ policies that prevented international provoked criticism.
During his CPAC Hungary speech last year, the populist prime minister called Carlson a “friend,” adding “programs like his should be broadcast day and night.”
In a leaked video, Tucker unleashes Fox Nation while on the phone with a representative for Andrew Tate, the British influencer arrested in Romania earlier this year
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses “Populism and the Right” at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on March 29, 2019
Carlson left his Fox News show on April 23, with no official reason why the company let go of their most-watched anchor.
The decision was made six days after Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.
It is believed his firing may have been related to evidence presented to the Fox News board during the preparation of the defamation trial.
It is revealed that Carlson sent an inflammatory text message the day after the January 6 storming of the Capitol — about which the Fox News board learned on the eve of their defamation trial — which led in part to his firing last week.
The central role of the January 7, 2021 text message was reported by The New York Times on Tuesday.
In text to one of his producers, Carlson recalls seeing a mob of three white men attack an “Antifa kid” and wanted the victim killed. But, Carlson wrote, he realized it was wrong to want the “Antifa boy” to die.
Carlson, whose critics call him a white supremacist, also argued that white people in general don’t act so dishonorably as to launch a three-on-one attack. He did not specify the race of the “Antifa boy.”
“At least it was three to one,” Carlson wrote. ‘Puncing on someone like that is, of course, dishonorable. White men don’t fight like that.’