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Tucker Carlson Comes Out Of The Closet.

"Fuentes and Friends" makes Fox Look Resonable. The Rise of The Proud Racist Newsman.

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Joshua Powell
Nov 04, 2025
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Tucker Carlson , that preppy provocateur and weekend racist who’s traded his bow tie for a nicotine buzz, has found his latest project: mainstreaming a Hitler enthusiast.

There was Tucker in his Pottery Barn-rustic Maine barn—across from Nick Fuentes, the 27-year-old who’s made a career of saying things so vile they’d make Megyn Kelly wince. And Tucker, who just months ago compared Fuentes to David Duke, was suddenly playing sympathetic therapist.

“I want to understand what you believe,” Tucker cooed, as if Fuentes were some misunderstood poet rather than someone who’s praised the Third Reich and used racial slurs that can’t be printed in a family newspaper.

Let’s be clear: Fuentes isn’t a conservative. He’s a racist. A bigot who was welcomed to dine at Mar-a-Lago with the former—and now current—president in November 2022. Trump broke bread with him. At the club where race policy is made by rich white men over shrimp cocktail and Trump wine.

The dinner wasn’t some accidental encounter. Fuentes arrived …

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