Perhaps nobody in modern media history has had such an insane rise and fall as Tucker Carlson. He was once a relatively obscure heir to a family fortune, but he sought fame as a journalist. That’s not normally a field that creates celebrities, but things worked out for Carlson: he became one of the most famous and highly-paid personalities on Fox News. In this position, he often defended President Donald Trump and other important conservative figures.
However, he flew a little too close to the sun when he and other hosts helped defend Trump’s baseless claims that Dominion voting machines were rigged to make Trump lose the 2020 election. Dominion sued Fox, which ultimately resulted in a $787.5 million settlement. The discovery phase of the trial also uncovered alarming evidence that Carlson allegedly created a hostile work environment, supported the death of political opponents, promoted racist and misogynistic news, and generally increased the network’s risk of getting sued.
He was fired, and ever since, people have been learning about some of his crazier beliefs. Just what are the weirdest things about Tucker Carlson? Keep reading to find out!
The time he interviewed Kevin Spacey’s fictional character
Normally, Tucker Carlson and Kevin Spacey wouldn’t have much in common except for the fact that they are both rich and famous. However, they now have something else in common: they’ve both been canceled after allegations regarding past behavior came to light. That’s part of why it was so surreal to see Carlson interview Spacey in December 2023, after he was fired. You see, he wasn’t interviewing the actor…at least, not directly. Instead, he was interviewing the fictional character Spacey played on House of Cards!
For Spacey, this was part of a weird trend: ever since he lost his House of Cards gig amid sexual abuse allegations, he would often release videos around the holidays where he reprised his role of Frank Underwood. This time, Carlson joined him, and the whole thing felt incredibly surreal. IT was clear to everyone watching that neither man had been able to move on from losing his job. If anything, Carlson came out worse: not only were his forced attempts at comedy painfully unfunny, but his decision to interview someone who isn’t even real did serious damage to his reputation as a journalist.
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Tucker Carlson claims he was attacked by a demon
Most of Tucker Carlson’s crazier moments stem from his hot political takes. This is to be expected, of course: he made a career out of firebrand political commentary, and much of what he had to say rubbed people the wrong way. Every now and then, though, he’d say something that weirded out everybody, regardless of personal politics. Like that time he told everyone a demon tried to kill him!
This came up because Carlson agreed to be part of a Christian documentary titled Christianities?
“I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled,” he said, blaming the attack on an “unseen” force that nobody else saw. “I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder, and I was just in my boxer shorts and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they’re bleeding.”
It’s a fantastic tale that he couldn’t exactly corroborate. And regardless of your religious beliefs, it’s wild to hear a former top journalist of the nation casually discussing things like a demonic assassination attempt!
He dubbed nuclear power evil
As an avowed Christian, Tucker Carlson most certainly viewed those invisible demons as evil. Which makes a kind of weird sense, really: if you accept that monsters are coming into our reality from a Hell dimension, it’s fair to assume that they probably don’t have humanity’s best interests at heart. At one point, though, this disgraced journalist applied the “evil” label to the last thing anyone was expecting: nuclear power!
In November 2024, he appeared on the War Room podcast, and he let everyone know exactly where he stands on this particular form of alternative energy. “Nuclear weapons are demonic, there’s no upside to them at all, and anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant or doing the bidding of the forces that created nuclear technology in the first place, which were not human forces obviously.” While everyone was still reeling from this wild declaration, he also claimed that he had never encountered a person who could “isolate the moment where nuclear technology became known to man. German scientists in the 1930s? Really? Name the date? It’s very clear to me that these [nuclear weapons] are demonic.”
Needless to say, every step of nuclear power development has been well-documented. And the fact that Carlson was seemingly never curious enough to look this up further proves why he was never a serious journalist in the first place!
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