Tucker Carlson launches Twitter present, assaults Ukraine

Tucker Carlson’s new present on Twitter launched Tuesday evening, a month after he was fired from Fox News.

The present, dubbed “Tucker on Twitter,” featured commonplace Carlson content material. The former Fox host ripped into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his first phase protecting the warfare. Mr. Carlson known as the president “ratlike” and mentioned the Ukranian navy was accountable for the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on Tuesday.

He went on to solid doubt on the official story behind the 9/11 terror assaults and mentioned UFOs are “actually real.”

Despite the content material being typical for Mr. Carlson, the manufacturing was not. Compared with the luxurious manufacturing of Fox News, Tucker on Twitter was naked bones. The lighting was considerably sparser, the set virtually nonexistent and the sound echoed barely.

A query is whether or not Mr. Carlson’s new present can have the identical attain as his former prime-time slot on Fox, however he actually has highly effective associates on Twitter. Owner and former CEO Elon Musk helped carry Mr. Carlson to the platform solely and praised the present after its first evening.

“Would be great to have shows from all parts of the political spectrum on this platform!” Mr. Musk tweeted.

Mr. Carlson mentioned he’s on Twitter as a result of it’s devoted to free speech.

“As of today, we’ve come to Twitter. We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave,” he mentioned within the video.

Other fashionable conservative commentators like Benny Johnson and Matt Walsh chimed in to level out that the present garnered hundreds of thousands of views. By Wednesday morning, the episode had garnered practically 80 million views.