Newsweek: Tucker Carlson Does U-Turn on Past Islamophobic Views—’I Was Hysterical’
Tucker Carlson, the conservative commentator and former Fox News host who has spent much of 2026 breaking with President Donald Trump and attacking Israel’s influence on American foreign policy, acknowledged Thursday that his years of anti-Muslim rhetoric were wrong.
“Many times, I said on television, ‘The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They’re all crazy. They’re all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century,'” Carlson said in an interview with Sky News. “And I believed that. I was hysterical. I believed that. Now, that’s not true. Nothing about that is true, but I believed it.”
