Jon Stewart on Wednesday argued that Tucker Carlson’s big public break with President Donald Trump is merely a symptom of a “grifter subculture.”
“And Tucker’s move is just the latest shift of the grift, that’s all this is,” said Stewart on the latest episode of “The Weekly Show” podcast.
“There’s no epiphany. It’s just, ‘Oh, that fucking ship is sinking.’”
Carlson — much like right-wing figures such as ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Alex Jones and Megyn Kelly — has dialed up his criticism of Trump in recent months, particularly since he launched his unpopular Iran war in February.
The former Fox News host described the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that month as “absolutely disgusting and evil” and called Trump’s Easter Sunday threat toward Iran “vile on every level.”
