{"id":22556,"date":"2026-04-22T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=22556"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:15:48","slug":"tucker-carlson-apologizes-to-america-for-helping-elect-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2026\/04\/tucker-carlson-apologizes-to-america-for-helping-elect-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson Apologizes to America for Helping Elect Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Tucker Carlson at 2025 AmeriFest, Phoenix, Arizona; CREDIT: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

For years, Tucker Carlson was practically the face of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Fox News that helped more than any other source thrust the brash and braggart, New York real estate developing tycoon, Donald Trump into the America\u2019s power center\u2014the White House. And now, Mr. Carlson, who has been ejected from Fox News, is apologizing for it.<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson Apologizes<\/h2>\n

Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson used to be good friends, but not any more. Monday, on \u201cThe Tucker Carlson Show\u201d on TV, Tucker said to his brother, Bruckley Carlson, about Donald Trump, \u201cI mean, you and I and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him, I mean, we\u2019re implicated in this for sure. It\u2019s not enough to say, \u2018Well, I changed my mind.\u2019 Or like, \u2018Oh, this is bad. I\u2019m out.'\u201d<\/p>\n

The still prominent media personality continued, \u201cIt\u2019s like, in very small ways but in meaningful ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now,\u201d meaning Trump is president. \u201cSo, I do think it\u2019s a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we\u2019ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I\u2019m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some MAGA Exs Are Talking 25th Amendment<\/h2>\n

Carlson added, \u201cThe 25th<\/sup> amendment is there for a reason. It\u2019s not crazy to talk about it in this context. If our country is suffering great and lasting damage, which it seems to be, then sober minds need to come in and exercise what power they have for the benefit of all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for the president\u2019s cabinet to declare unanimously that the nation\u2019s Commander-in-Chief is not capable of exercising the duties of the president and therefore must be removed from office, with the Vice President then taking his place.<\/p>\n

The Donald: \u201cNo More Wars\u201d<\/h2>\n

This is now Donald Trump\u2019s second presidential term. He campaigned for it by clearly stating that he would not get America into a war. Of course, Trump argues that his sole decision to invade Iran and destroy the place, killing thousand of Iranians since February 28, is a \u201cmilitary operation\u201d and thus not a war. I wonder where he got that idea? Was it from his buddy over there in \u201cRussia, Russia, Russia\u201d?<\/p>\n

Well, Tucker Carlson is not the only MAGA kingpin who is rushing for the exits out of Donaldland. Marjorie Taylor Greene is perhaps the most prominent voice doing so. Both are professing Christians who now feel regret for what they have done. Tucker and Marjorie were at the forefront of the stampeding MAGA Republicans (Make America Great Again) that took over the nation\u2019s capitol. It resulted in Trump not making \u201cAmerica First\u201d but doing the exact opposite\u2014making America odious to a large majority of the world who follow political and international events.<\/p>\n

Both Carlson and Greene have been quite vocal about being against Trump\u2019s war in Iran. And Trump lately has said, as we would expect, that Tucker Carlson is a \u201clow IQ person\u201d and a \u201cnut job.\u201d BTW, Trump is always bragging that he has a high IQ and accuses his enemies of low IQs; yet he never takes real psyche tests and tells the results.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Trump Affirms My Book<\/h2>\n

Trump is ruining the U.S. reputation in many ways. It affirms, I\u2019m sorry to say, that my book is right about him. It\u2019s entitled Bible Predicts Trump Fall<\/em><\/a>. Check it out at amazon.com. It is mostly blog posts I wrote during Trump\u2019s first term as U.S. president. But it has a large introduction and conclusion that tell how The Donald became who he is, as the book authored by his niece, psychiatrist Mary Trump, says with the subtitle, \u201cHow My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

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