Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson [1] (born May 16, 1969) is an American political commentator , writer, and television personality, who hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023.
Carlson began his media career in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard and other publications. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005 and a co-host of the network's prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he hosted the nightly program Tucker on MSNBC . In 2009, he became a political analyst for Fox News, appearing on various programs before launching his own show. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the right-wing news and
An advocate of former U.S. president Donald Trump , Carlson was described by Politico as "perhaps the highest-profile proponent of ' Trumpism ' " but was willing to criticize Trump when he believed that the former president was straying from that ideology. [6] He was said to have influenced some of Trump's decisions as president, including the cancellation of a military strike against Iran in 2019, the firing of National Security Advisor John Bolton the same year, and the commutation of Roger Stone 's priso