Tucker Carlson

Tuck­er Carl­son is a con­ser­v­a­tive media per­son­al­i­ty and for­mer Fox News host who left the net­work in April 2023. He launched his own media plat­form on X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter) in 2024. He has pub­licly praised Hun­gar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán’s nation­al­ist poli­cies and con­duct­ed mul­ti­ple inter­views with him, includ­ing vis­it­ing Hun­gary to film there. In 2024, he con­duct­ed a wide­ly pub­li­cized inter­view with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Pri­or to his Fox News career, Carl­son worked at CNN and PBS, and co-found­ed the con­ser­v­a­tive news site The Dai­ly Caller in 2010. Born into a priv­i­leged back­ground as the son of a media exec­u­tive, he attend­ed pri­vate schools and began his jour­nal­ism career writ­ing for var­i­ous con­ser­v­a­tive pub­li­ca­tions in the 1990s.