Tucker Carlson responded to swirling rumors and a recent report suggesting Melania Trump encouraged her husband to take on the former Fox News host as a VP.
Carlson made the comments at the American Principles Project Foundation’s (APP) annual Christmas gala this week.
Tucker said that considering the role would take nothing short of divine intervention.
“God would have to yell at me very loud,” he said.
Despite the rumors surrounding Carlson’s political ambitions, he has previously expressed a lack of interest in becoming a political figure.
“I have no interest in that,” Tucker Carlson says when a member of the audience presses again whether he’d be Trump’s VP. He gives one lecture to his employees, Tucker adds, “stay in your freaking lane.”
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) December 8, 2023
Carlson likened the potential from media to politics as going from “a well-paid street corner schizophrenic to, like, a politician.”
Recently, Carlson said he became a full-blown Trump supporter following the Mar-a-Lago raid in 2022.
“I’ve always agreed with Trump’s policies, and I’ve lost friends over it,” Carlson shared.
He added that Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence transformed him from a passive supporter to an active one.
“That just can’t stand,” he said.
“You cannot allow the regime, the President of the United States, to use the Justice Department to knock the frontrunner out of the race,” Carlson explained.
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Tucker Carlson to Roseanne Barr…
— Marc 🇺🇸 (@gopher_marc) November 30, 2023
"I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer. That just can't stand. I'm voting for Trump and if they convict him I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests. That's how I feel." 👏🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/cXfDiBewoT
“You can’t do that… So it’s bigger than Trump. It’s bigger than Biden. It’s a question of, do you want to live in a free country with a functioning justice system.”
Earlier this week, Axios reported that Melania Trump was pushing her husband to pick Carlson as his top aide.
The argument for Tucker as VP is he would be a “powerful onstage extension” to Trump’s administration.
Last month, Trump sent shockwaves throughout the political landscape after saying he would seriously consider adding Carlson’s 2024 presidential ticket as VP.
Asked about the possibility of a Trump-Carlson ticket, President Trump responded, “I like Tucker a lot. … He’s got great common sense.”
“I like Tucker a lot,” Trump said.
“I guess I would. I think I’d say I would,” he added after being asked if he would consider Tucker his running mate.
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President Trump tells @ClayTravis and @BuckSexton he'll consider @TuckerCarlson for VP: "I like Tucker a lot. I guess I would consider him. He’s got great common sense."
— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) November 8, 2023
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