Douglas Murray: Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump
By Douglas Murray
Published March 19, 2026, 9:47 p.m. ET
In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.
Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar — yet has still survived.
This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president.
Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump’s one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.
There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.
Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warmup act.
But in the past year, he has tried to lead the MAGA base away from Trump and down a very dark path.
Fortunately, the Trump base hasn’t followed him there.
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