Tucker Carlson: “Trump would say something in his, like, florid, orange way…”

“I thought he was kind of a buffoon. I still think that sometimes. But what changed my view wasn't Trump. It was the reaction to Trump among my neighbors. So Trump would say something in his, like, florid, orange way, you know, like, why are we funding NATO? And that was the one that got me. I remember this. And I'd never questioned NATO. I never. Because I grew up during the Cold War, and NATO was the bulwark against Soviet aggression into Western Europe.” (54:03–54:11)

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