Trump Becomes the Very Thing He Swore to Destroy. And It Might Cost Us Our Country.
The Tucker Carlson Show

Trump Becomes the Very Thing He Swore to Destroy. And It Might Cost Us Our Country.

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 27, 20261 hr 41 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

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nuclear program that didn't actually exist in any meaningful way would be the central

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revealing experience to talk to Trump voters right now. They're having a lot of conflicting thoughts. Now, most people who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, did so not because they were more popular with their neighbors, but because they felt that Donald Trump was the last chance this country had to make fundamental changes it needed to make to avert obvious

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disasters looming on the horizon. And so because people who voted for Trump did so against the considered advice of every news organization in the United States, basically, and all educated, factual people, they kind of went out on a limb to vote for the sky. There is a natural hesitance to concede that things aren't working as planned. So if you talk to them, they will

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almost all concede, almost all concede, that a regime change war with Iran was kind of not part of the plan. Very few people voted for Trump, hoping that, you know, the Iran nuclear program that didn't actually exist in any meaningful way would be the central focus of the administration, like that nobody thought that who voted for Trump two years

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