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Tucker Carlson: “Minneapolis has not gotten better in the last 10 years…”

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Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America

Published December 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 26:42

… actually working hard, who aren't 90% on welfare like the actual producers, and just the normal people who pay their taxes and go to work. It's not to help them. Minneapolis has not gotten better in the last 10 years. Hasn't gotten better under Jacob Fry, it's gotten much worse. Go there and you'll see city built by Swedes. Tidy, kind of boring, sort of sterile. Not very warm like the Swedes themselves, but functional for sure. Polite, absolutely. (26:42–26:48)

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Asserts that Minneapolis has worsened in the last 10 years under Jacob Fry.

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“Over 50% of all Somali kids are in poverty. That compares to about 8% of native born Americans.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 02:49-02:56
“Somalis who've lived here at least 10 years, most still can't speak fluent English.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 03:34-03:39
“In both Minnesota and the state of Maine... they have committed, apparently... massive multibillion dollar, Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 04:01-04:23
“Ilhan Omar... got here on visa fraud because she married her brother.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 13:01-13:30
“Plus, she's an illegal alien.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 15:42-15:45
“The state of Minnesota... has been rocked... by a federal health insurance fraud scandal to the tune of billions and billions.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 37:28-1:00:28
“Somalis... probably the worst of any immigrant group in the United States.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 01:59-05:20
“There are about, we think, 260,000 Somalis in the United States.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 02:34-02:39
“The Somalis who live in the United States came here as refugees.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 06:58-07:03
“The United States has a moral obligation [to bring refugees to the U.S. after intervening in foreign conflicts].”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 07:03-08:10
“At the tail end of every American intervention around the world, we import... refugees from the country in whose internal affairs we are…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 07:34-07:53
“Somalia's not a huge country, so we only have hundreds of thousands [of Somali refugees].”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 08:38-08:42
“When they got here... they were given way more free stuff than any American citizen receives.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 08:55-09:05
“Our healthcare system, our hospitals... totally destroyed by this last wave of immigration.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 11:07-11:16
“The United States has lost the self-confidence necessary to import and assimilate people.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 11:59-12:09
“Ilhan Omar is openly disloyal to the nation, Our nation. That Our ancestors built in the United States Congress.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 15:32-15:42
“The United States is based on a universalist principle. It is famously a country built on ideas.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 17:19-17:25
“The countries that are working are ethnostates. Actually, China's an ethno state. Is Han Chinese. It's a Han Chinese state. Japan is a…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 17:29-17:40
“And the only way to get there is through violence.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 18:37-18:40
“She's saying, how do you. How can you as Americans send more money to my country, which is not the United States, despite the fact I serve…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 20:29-20:38
“Jacob Fry has announced, and somehow didn't get arrested for saying this, that they're just going to ignore federal immigration law in…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 24:18-24:29
“The Democratic Party has spent the last 30 years saying, we don't like white men. Just, period. We're not lying about it. We're for the end…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 27:32-27:39
“The Somalis aren't here by accident, and the Somalis don't have these attitudes by accident.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 30:35-30:39
“If you imported 260,000 Somalis and said, okay, here are the rules. This is how we behave in the United States.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 30:38-30:45
“The point is to bring the poorest, least educated people in the world to the United States immediately.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 31:10-31:16
“Put them on welfare, generationally destroy the cities you park them in for free.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 31:15-31:19
“The unemployed factory workers throughout the state of Maine who were displaced by the Somalis.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 31:27-31:33
“The cab drivers who were displaced by the Somalis because the Somalis got their jobs through the government.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 31:32-31:38
“Little attention has been paid to the state of Maine, which I think on a per capita basis has been even more affected by Somali immigration.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 37:39-37:47
“The fraud there [in Maine] has been enormous and it hasn't gotten any attention.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 37:47-37:52
“Why would lawmakers in Maine and Augusta, the legislature, why would they design a system that made it easy, almost inevitable? This, the…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 39:39-39:56
“The demographics of Lewiston had been changed on purpose so that he [Paul LePage] and people like him would lose.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 41:46-41:54
“The Somalis who are engaged in this fraud, and I think it is fraud, are acting only on behalf of their tribe.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 42:01-42:07
“Okay, that's illegal, correct? I mean, they certainly can't do federal elections, right?”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 45:09-45:15
“Has the Justice Department done anything about this?”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 47:15-47:18
“I detect a lot of hostility toward whites from Somalis.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 51:02-51:06
“I also detect, like, no attempt at assimilation at all.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 51:19-51:23
“It's maybe the most corrupt state out of 50.”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 59:40-59:43
“It doesn't really make sense that the state government didn't know this was going on because daycare centers, autism centers, I mean, these…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 1:06:50-1:06:59
“What have Democratic politicians said about this and have any Somali leaders apologized for it, for defrauding the country that was so…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 1:11:23-1:11:32
“Where's the rest of the media in the state? Where's the Star Tribune?”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 1:14:22-1:14:26
“Setting standards, decent, universal standards that apply to everyone, no matter what they look like or who they vote for. That is the…”
Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America | Uploaded December 18, 2025 | 1:17:36-1:17:48