Turns out Tucker Carlson "passionately" hates Donald Trump

Tucker Carlson has been one of Donald Trump’s biggest public political supporters, but privately, it turns out the Fox News host actually absolutely hates the former president.

Recently released court filings from Dominion Voting System’s lawsuit against Fox have revealed just how much Carlson dislikes Trump, and the evidence of his hate is juicy. 

“The Carlson revelations have been particularly juicy because they show how Trump’s most prominent champion actually loathes him,” wrote Zeeshan Aleem of MSNBC.

“They illustrate how Carlson doesn’t respect his viewers enough to speak to them truthfully about the problems that he believes Trump poses to the country,” Aleem added. 

Take for example texts Carlson sent to a co-worker in reaction to January 6th as it unfolded, messages in which the Fox News host expressed his joy over President Trump’s “imminent departure from the White House,” Aleem wrote. 

“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson wrote according to Aleem. 

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson allegedly continued in another message to the same coworker according to the court filings, “can’t handle much more of this.”

This wasn’t the first time Carlson had apparently shown contempt for Donald Trump and his presidency. Shortly after the 2020 election, Carlson voiced his worries about Trump to his producer and openly worried about Trump’s ability to destroy the Republicans.

“What he’s good at is destroying things,” Carlson said as quoted by Aleem. “He’s the undisputed world champion of that.”

“He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong,” Carlson added, It’s so obvious.” But if it was so obvious, why would the Fox host continually defend Trump and his policies?

In a separate report by New York Times journalist Katie Roberston, Roberston covered several more of the best revelations of Carleson’s profound hate for Trump. 

While texting a staffer about Trump’s planned boycott of Joe Biden’s inauguration, Carlson went off on the former president’s politically destructive behavior. 

“I’d heard that about the inauguration. Hard to believe. So destructive,” Carlson wrote, adding: “It’s disgusting. I’m trying to look away.”

On the topic of Trump’s lawyer Sidney Powell in 2021, Carlson messaged fellow Fox host Laura Ingraham that he tried to get the White House to “disavow her, which they obviously should have done long before.”

No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying,” Ingraham wrote in response, and Carlson replied: “But they said nothing in public. Pretty disgusting.”

“And now Trump, I learned this morning, is sitting back and letting them lose the senate. He doesn’t care. I care,” Carlson added. 

January 6th really did seem to be Carleson’s breaking point, however, texting Alex Pfeiffer that Trump was a “demonic force, a destroyer,” according to Katie Roberston.

How Tucker Carlson feels about Trump today is a mystery, but it is clear from his private messages that he loathed the former president, a taste that usually isn’t easily lost once acquired…