Tucker Carlson Releases 10-Point Manifesto Amid Growing Presidential Run Buzz
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Controversial hard-right influencer Tucker Carlson released a 10-point manifesto this week as he previewed a potential presidential run in 2028.
Carlson made waves on Wednesday by releasing an hour and a half long monologue laying out his vision of the future, which he shared on social media with the caption, “Our political system has collapsed into paralysis and looting. Change is coming. Here’s what America should be.”
The former Fox News host and Trump booster laid out his 10-points in his lengthy screed, which he said were in part inspired by the need to move past the disappointment of Vice President JD Vance. Carlson stopped short of announcing any kind of candidacy, but built instead on his vow to help build a third party with the likes of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – who, like Carlson, are fierce critics of Trump’s war in Iran and of his administration’s handling of the Epstein Files.
Below are Carlson’s 10 points, as reported on by Axios’s Zachary Basu:
1. Fair: The same rules should apply to presidents, federal agents and elites such as Jeffrey Epstein, whose impunity Carlson cast as emblematic of an “Epstein class” enriching itself through a corrupt system.
2. Sovereign: Carlson claimed Israel pushed the U.S. into the Iran war through “bribery or threat or both,” while describing foreign lobbying, corporate control of government and high-interest debt as forms of “slavery.”
3. Productive: America should rebuild farming, manufacturing and craftsmanship while rejecting an economy dominated by finance, real estate speculation, surveillance systems and weapons.
4. Beautiful: Carlson alleged that urban planners deliberately “uglified” American cities, and portrayed brutalist architecture, graffiti, public drug use and violent crime as deliberate attacks on the public.
5. Healthy: Carlson embraced RFK Jr.’s food agenda, called for universal sobriety and said widespread use of drugs such as Xanax, Adderall and SSRIs had left Americans “half-addled.”
6. Honest: Government officials should be punished for lying to citizens, and most classified records — including on the JFK assassination and 9/11 — should be opened.
7. Optimistic: Carlson argued that having children is a biological imperative and the foundation of long-term thinking, while blaming aging and childless elites for policies that disregard future generations.
8. Wise: Schools should teach how the physical world actually works and what he called unchanging facts about human nature — including innate differences between men and women — rather than credentials, screens and technological fads.
9. Decent: The U.S. should apologize and pay restitution for killing noncombatants, reverse Trump’s “Department of War” rebrand and stop funding allies that commit what Carlson called genocide, citing Israel.
10. United: Carlson called for halting immigration until the effects of AI become clearer, ending benefits for undocumented immigrants and making English the sole language of federal documents and ballots.
Trump’s White House hit back at Carlson on Wednesday, following Carlson’s meeting with Greene and Massie over the weekend to plot their new party.
“The President is committed to maintaining Republican majorities in Congress and continuing to lower costs for working families. Meanwhile, this photo represents an embarrassing collection of mostly whiny turncoats who dramatically overestimate their influence and relevance,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said of an image of the meeting Greene shared on social media.
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