Tucker Carlson Apologizes For Helping Trump Get Elected—Says He’s ‘Tormented’ By It

BreakingBusinessTucker Carlson Apologizes For Helping Trump Get Elected—Says He’s ‘Tormented’ By ItByConor Murray,Forbes Staff. Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends.Follow AuthorApr 21, 2026, 10:06am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.ToplineTucker Carlson, the right-wing commentator who has broken with President Donald Trump over the Iran war and has become a subject of the president’s ire, apologized for his role in helping him get elected on an episode of his podcast, saying he will be “tormented” by it for a “long time.”Tucker Carlson apologized for helping elect Trump in an episode of his podcast. (Photo by Olivier Touron / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsCarlson, who spoke on his podcast with his brother and a former speechwriter for Trump, Buckley Carlson, said he will be “tormented” by his support for Trump for a “long time,” apologizing to listeners for “misleading” them about the president.“We’re implicated in this for sure,” Carlson said, acknowledging he campaigned for him and his brother wrote speeches for Trump in 2015, calling it a moment to “wrestle with our own consciences.”Carlson doubled down on his criticisms of the war in Iran, saying Trump “clearly had no plan” and was “fully aware that it was a betrayal of his explicit promises for 10 years not to do this.”Buckley Carlson called Trump an “out of control, megalomaniacal, destructive president” and suggested Congress should “consider” invoking the 25th Amendment, which outlines presidential succession and would allow members of the cabinet and the vice president to remove the president from office if he is deemed unfit.Buckley Carlson said it’s not “crazy” to suggest using the 25th Amendment if the country is “suffering great and lasting damage, which it seems to be,” and Tucker Carlson stopped short of endorsing the 25th Amendment, but said the “first step toward re...