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Tucker Carlson: “Clearly that, that's what Trump's election was about…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Published August 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 43:03

I don't think that we do do. Okay, so you said this is the moment, which is without many precedents in history, where we're, we are voluntarily trying to scale back the empire. Clearly that, that's what Trump's election was about [voluntarily trying to scale back the empire]. Right. And there are costs to that. What are the costs? Well, a large amount of that is going to be global influence. Right. (43:03–43:16)

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“If another country, I don't know, decides to move 2 million people by force in the biggest internment mass migration since the Second World…”
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“You can't fly across the country right now with a single stop and get there on time.”
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“Nobody seems to care, but, like, our air traffic system is, like, collapsed.”
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“It's majority white countries that are being targeted for mass migration and it's only those countries.”
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“We've gone so long with no violence, really, 160 years, which is amazing for any society.”
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“Aligning yourself with Benjamin Netanyahu, while there's definitely some overlap in interests, and I don't think any of this is personal…”
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“The United States forms unbreakable alliances with countries that share its values. That's what we're told.”
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“Washington wrote that. Yeah, 100% Washington said the people who stand up and say, wait a second, nothing against that other country, but…”
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“The food that we eat, produced by huge food companies, Big Food in conjunction with Pharma, is destroying our health, making this a weak and…”
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“The levels of chronic disease are beyond belief.”
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“Big tech, big pharma, and big food combine together to form an incredibly malevolent force pumping you full of garbage, unhealthy food with…”
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“We see the world becoming homogenized, and there's something in us normal people, I think, that find that very distressing.”
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“There are huge forces pushing against [diversity], leveling forces. Everyone's the same. Same attitude, same sports, same food.”
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“Your thesis is that's on purpose, that's not natural, and it's a power grab by governments.”
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“One of the core beliefs about economics, I think, that most people have, because it's just intuitive, is that in order to receive a reward…”
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“An organization at a certain scale always exists for its own self perpetuation.”
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“The system as one of its like core imperatives has got to divide the population.”
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“They're doing it and have been for 60 years.”
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“Those are the founders who's 100 Anglo Protestant, like 100%.”
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“When you change the population, you change [the country].”
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“Our food supply is rotten. It didn't used to be this way.”
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“The media is a participant in this system.”
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“It does seem like we're moving toward dictatorship.”
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“I think the Democrats are much more eager for dictatorship than the Republicans generally.”
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“People's faith in democracy, whatever that is, has been badly shaken.”
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“I just don't think you can govern in the way that our government currently governs forever.”
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“In Arkansas, I was reading, because I know one of the people involved, the Attorney General of Arkansas, Tim Griffin, is a perfectly nice…”
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“Our core beliefs as a country circa 2025 anyway are that everyone has to live in exactly the same way whether they want to or not.”
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“The majority of people on the Internet giving their opinions are kind of fake on some level.”
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“He really served one meaningful role in his life, which was to keep a certain variety of nationalism out of the conservative canon.”
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“Regional differences just went away during those years, 1946, 1964.”
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“I just want people to remember that so much of what they hear is misleading.”
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“People are not fighting the government, they're not killing the tyrants, they're killing themselves.”
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“The native population, the indigenous population of [the U.K.] has decided to just kill itself.”
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“Republicans in Congress [are] laying the found work, the basis for [making central bank digital currency impossible].”
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“There's almost no description of the upside for the average person [regarding AI].”
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“They will be shut down, but they won't be censored. They'll be overwhelmed by AI.”
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“If their technological superiority is so profound, if you can't buy a plane ticket, if you disagree with them, and we're clearly moving…”
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“Why do we need to control Yemen too?”
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“The declining power of the legislative branch [is evident in the United States].”
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“The stats prove it. But...that fact is suppressed.”
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“It happens in prisons, it happens in schools, it happens in parks.”
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“It's everywhere and it's in every country. It's in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, US.”
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“It's the youth wing at the Democratic Party, of course.”
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“YouTube is suppressing this show.”
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“Google has decided you should have less information rather than more.”
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