Nov 9, 2023
Trump Says He Would Consider Tucker Carlson As Running Mate Because Of His 'Common Sense'
Trump Says He Would Consider Tucker Carlson As Running Mate Because Of His 'Common Sense'
- 9 minutes
Former President Donald Trump is
going to consider Tucker Carlson,
little Tuck Tuck as a vice
presidential running mate.
Well, at least that is what
Trump indicated when pressed.
[00:00:15]
Now, there are a few ways to interpret,
here it is.
>> Speaker 2: Would you consider
Tucker Carlson on your VP list?
I wanna give you a hypothetical here.
You're a big sportsman,
Nick Saban is gonna retire at some point.
And if you talk to the athletic director
at Alabama, he would say he has a list.
[00:00:33]
So would Tucker Carlson be on your list
of potential VPs and how many names
might be on that list as you sit and
look and survey the political field?
>> Speaker 3: Well, first of all,
I did my first, you could call it counter
programming, but I won't call it that.
[00:00:49]
But Tucker wanted to do an interview
during the first debate.
And I think because this is what your
business is, we broke every record-
>> Monster audience.
>> In history, yeah.
I think it just hit over
300 million people.
But it was for that evening,
over 207 million,
[00:01:07]
it then got to 275 within a day or two.
And the biggest ever was Oprah's
interview with Michael Jackson,
which was 125 million.
So we almost doubled it.
Now, who would have thought
that was going to happen?
The last debate they had had the lowest
audience in the history of presidential
[00:01:24]
debates.
I don't know if you know it.
And I think the one tonight is not.
It's on tonight and
I don't even talk about it.
>> Speaker 2: Would you consider Tucker,
though, based on the-
>> I like Tucker a lot, I guess I would.
I think I'd say I would because
he's got great common sense.
When they say that you guys
are conservative or I'm conservative,
[00:01:42]
it's not that we're conservative,
we have common sense.
We wanna have safe borders,
we wanna have a wall because walls work.
You know what Ronald
used to say about walls?
I'd say wheels and walls,
everything changes.
The computer that you have in front of you
in about a month from now will be totally
obsolete.
[00:01:58]
Right now you have the finest
equipment in the world.
And in about a month from now,
that equipment will be obsolete.
The only two things for centuries that's
not obsolete are wheels and walls, right?
No, when you think about it, right,
a wheel will always be a wheel,
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it's never gonna change.
And a wall will always be a wall and
walls work.
Remember when they were saying.
>> Speaker 2: Joe Biden's got a wall
at his beach house, by the way?
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, he does.
And by the way,
there are a lot of other walls.
Nancy Pelosi has a wall also.
[00:02:31]
And if she didn't have a wall, of course,
it didn't work that well with respect to
the husband, but
generally speaking, it would work.
>> Speaker 1: I mean,
the rambling is actually getting worse.
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Yes, the former president of
the United States of America,
the man leading in the Republican primary,
the man who is highly competitive
in most swing states within
the margin of error, winning,
based on some polling data,
[00:03:05]
said, yeah,
I would consider Tucker Carlson.
The ratings would be great.
Put up the picture full mass.
This would be an okay conversation
in the context of, let's say,
[00:03:23]
The Apprentice, but this is in the context
of actual policy that impacts people.
Let me read this quote again.
Trump said, I like Tucker a lot,
I guess I would.
[00:03:41]
I think I'd say I would because
he's got great common sense.
When they say that you guys
are conservative or I'm conservative,
it's not that we're conservative,
we have common sense.
[00:04:02]
We want to have safe borders.
We want to have a wall because walls work.
Let's be very clear.
There is not a wall that
a man has built that
another man has not been
able to climb over,
[00:04:21]
tunnel under, or
break through, number one.
Number two, the reality of Trump's
diplomacy plan, his immigration plan,
[00:04:37]
lacks nuance because he is incapable of
actual independent, nuanced thought.
He is basically a red meat giver.
He's going to give you a talking
point here, a talking point there.
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There's a reason why
Republicans as a party,
they have no idea what they believe
anymore because their standard
changed based on the proclamation
of the madman named Trump.
And let us not forget that
during the Dominion lawsuit,
[00:05:12]
we know what Tucker actually
believes about Donald Trump,
which by proxy, gave us an idea of what
he thinks of people who view his content.
You see,
Tucker told the truth in his text messages
that Donald Trump is a wrecking ball.
[00:05:29]
Donald Trump is a great evil,
that Donald Trump is a liar,
that Donald Trump is, in fact,
going to bring everybody down.
These things were exposed.
Well, somehow they were
able to spin a narrative
[00:05:48]
outside of that in TV land that
presented a different story.
Would Trump actually make Tucker a VP?
Of course not, because he knows how Tucker
actually feels about him in real life.
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They just say something
different on television.
Trump will pick someone
who's a member of his cult.
That's who he would choose.
All right, Jordan, thoughts here.
>> Speaker 4: So
the conventional approach for
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picking a VP is somebody who doesn't
overshadow the presidential candidate.
You saw that especially with Tim Kane,
the pick by Hillary Clinton.
He was just a blonde, vanilla,
boring Democrat that a lot of people
didn't even know of before that moment.
[00:06:37]
But here,
I can't imagine this would happen.
He's saying it just because
it will get attention, and
you could see that in his reasoning.
Get great ratings, right?
So put aside the unlikelihood.
[00:06:52]
First, let's just actually think about
this if it were to actually happen,
that would be an opposition
researcher's dream.
Because Tucker not only has
years worth of heinous comments
that he made on Fox,
it goes back even to when he was on MSNBC,
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and I worked at media matters
when we dug up the Bubba
the Love Sponge archives that
Tucker called in every week.
What a ridiculous name.
But he would call into this
shock jock radio show out of
[00:07:28]
Florida every week for years.
And all of those episodes
are stored in the cloud.
So they already published some
of the worst of the worst.
Like talking about underage
girls in a sexual way,
[00:07:43]
calling people in Iraq and Afghanistan
semi literate primitive monkeys,
using racist impressions to
talk about people of color.
And that's just some
of what was published.
There are hours and hours of content
just sitting there waiting for
[00:08:02]
Tucker to stick his head back out again.
So go for it, pick him as your VP.
Because as tough of a time it is for
Biden right now,
with his approval ratings plummeting,
people not really generally
supporting him, especially for
how he's handling Gaza.
[00:08:21]
This could be the one way that you help
propel Biden to victory because it would
just be plastered and
broadcast wall to wall.
And moderates, people who don't really
have strong party affiliation either way,
aren't going to support somebody who has
said something in all of these things that
[00:08:38]
are so heinous.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, in a more normative
political climate, I would 100% agree.
But we have a Democratic president
who is in complete lock and
step against humanitarian efforts.
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We also have a societal construct,
a normality that says we
are going to reward bigotry and
racism in our political class.
So normally I would say absolutely.
Yep, today I'm like, Tucker may actually
excite even more racist people.
[00:09:12]
All right, we'll see what happens.
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