Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson was confronted over a comment questioning whether or not his former ally, President Donald Trump, could be the “Antichrist,” which he adamantly denied, despite the fact that he made the remark on his own podcast just last month.
“I actually did not say, ’Could this be the Antichrist?’I don’t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I’m not sure I fully understand what the Antichrist is, if there’s just one,” Carlson told New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro in an interview published Saturday.
Last month, Carlson posted the Antichrist question to his audience following criticism over the president’s bizarre social media activity involving AI depictions of Jesus Christ, and amid their feud over the war in Iran.
“Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods, and exalting himself above them,” Carlson said on the April 15 episode of his show. “Could this be the Antichrist? Well, who knows?”
When Garcia-Navarro confronted Carlson, he replied that he “may have said some are asking that,” but that he himself is “not weighing in on that.”
