Posted on 12/06/2018 2:14:58 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson set straight any misinformation concerning his views on President Trump: “I don’t think he’s capable,” he said during an interview on Tuesday.
Urs Gehriger, an editor at “Die Weltwoche,” the country’s leading German-language opinion weekly, noted that Carlson’s new book, “Ship of Fools,” is silent on Trump but comments on his critics. And so, Gehriger jump-started the conversation by asking what Carlson thought of Trump’s first two years in office.
Carlson said he cannot stand Trump’s self-aggrandizement and boasting. Then, when asked whether Trump has kept his promises, the usually quick-witted and long-winded Carlson had just one word: “No.”
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There must be a lot of deep state people here on FR that love the WP. Because there sure a lot of people who push it around here.
I must suspect misquote, out of context, language barrier, etc. Tuycker pretty much agrees with Donald
Tucker Carlson is also partly wrong. And the fact that he asserts he is flatly right without any qualification makes him wholly wrong.
Tucker’s done got Democrat induced,
guilty until proven innocent, acceptability acceptance accepting illness. Ands forgot the meaning of the word “NO” which is another Democrat malady.
Exactly. Politicians, as a group, are way, way overrepresented by arrogant narcissistic people whose need to be recognized is generally light years beyond their talents.
Congress also needs to put a bill hiring more Border Patrol people on Trump’s desk.
A “Wall” will take years to build, but people can be put to border security work in a few weeks.
A Democratic House won’t secure a bright future for us, so Congressional Republicans need to get to work.
Yep, I’m going to give Tucker the chance to come out and explain this. Something stinks.
Even a Trump-sceptic pre-2017 like Mark Levin now admits he is one of the most effective leaders the Republic has ever known.
If these comments have truly come from Tucker he is finished with me
I’m going to have to watch his show tonite just to see if he either backtracks on what was reported that he said, or if he calls the WAPO a bunch of lying scum.
Do you think he has kept his promises? Has he achieved his goals?
No.
He hasn't?
No. His chief promises were that he would build the wall, de-fund planned parenthood, and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn't done any of those things. There are a lot of reasons for that, but since I finished writing the book, I've come to believe that Trump's role is not as a conventional president who promises to get certain things achieved to the Congress and then does. I don't think he's capable. I don't think he's capable of sustained focus. I don't think he understands the system. I don't think the Congress is on his side. I don't think his own agencies support him. He's not going to do that.
I think Trump's role is to begin the conversation about what actually matters. We were not having any conversation about immigration before Trump arrived in Washington. People were bothered about it in different places in the country. It's a huge country, but that was not a staple of political debate at all. Trump asked basic questions like' "Why don't our borders work?" “Why should we sign a trade agreement and let the other side cheat?” Or my favorite of all, "What's the point of NATO?" The point of NATO was to keep the Soviets from invading western Europe but they haven't existed in 27 years, so what is the point? These are obvious questions that no one could answer.
Apart from asking these very important questions has he really achieved nothing?
Not much. Not much. Much less than he should have. I've come to believe he's not capable of it.
Why should he be not capable?
Because the legislative process in this country by design is highly complex, and it's designed to be complex as a way of diffusing power, of course, because the people who framed our Constitution, founded our country, were worried about concentrations of power. They balanced it among the three branches as you know and they made it very hard to make legislation. In order to do it you really have to understand how it works and you have to be very focused on getting it done, and he knows very little about the legislative process, hasn't learned anything, hasn't and surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn't done all the things you need to do so. It's mostly his fault that he hasn't achieved those things. I'm not in charge of Trump.
The title of your book is “Ship of Fools”. You write that an irresponsible elite has taken over America. Who is the biggest fool?
I mean let me just be clear. I'm not against an aristocratic system. I'm not against a ruling class. I think that hierarchies are natural, people create them in every society. I just think the system that we have now the meritocracy, which is based really on our education system, on a small number of colleges has produced a ruling class that doesn't have the self-awareness that you need to be wise. I'm not arguing for populism, actually. I'm arguing against populism. Populism is what you get when your leaders fail. In a democracy, the population says this is terrible and they elect someone like Trump.
When did you first notice that this elite is getting out of touch with the people?
Well, just to be clear, I'm not writing this from the perspective of an outsider. I mean I've lived in this world my whole life.
Which world exactly?
The world of affluence and the high level of education and among-- I grew up in a town called La Jolla, California in the south. It was a very affluent town and then I moved as a kid to Georgetown here in Washington. I've been here my whole life. I've always lived around people who are wielding authority, around the ruling class, and it was only after the financial crisis of 08 that I noticed that something was really out of whack, because Washington didn't really feel the crisis.
If you leave Washington and drive to say Pittsburgh, which is a manufacturing town about three and a half hours to the west, you drive through a series of little towns that are devastated. There are no car dealerships, there are no restaurants. There's nothing. They have not recovered. I remember driving out there one day, maybe eight or nine years ago and thinking, boy, this is a disaster. Rural America, America outside three or four cities is really falling apart. I thought if you're running the country, you should have a sense of that. I remember thinking to myself, nobody I know has any idea that this is happening an hour away. That's kind of strange since we're the capital city in charge of making policy for everybody else... Massive inequality does not work in a democracy... You become Venezuela.
You write about vanishing middle class. When you were born over 60 % of Americans ranked middle class. Why and when did it disappear?
If you make above a certain income, or if you live in my neighborhood, you have zero physical contact with other Americans. In other words, the elite in our country is physically separated in a way that's very unhealthy for a democracy, very unhealthy.
Neil Gorsuch. Brett Kavanaugh.
I watch Tucker every night, and also watched Tuesday. This is a gross misrepresentation of the conversation.
Frankly, I can’t stand beta boy Tucker. I miss O’Reilly.
I am wondering if Hannity is on the way out. Fox has attacked him for attending a Trump rally and then sank his must watch interview Monday. Maybe Carlson is playing to the Murdoch wives and thinks he can snag Hannity’s time slot.
I’ll wait for a report from a real newspaper.
Semper TRUMP.45!
PERIOD!
Gunny G@PlanetWTF?
Keep Grinning!
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Maybe he’s getting ready to pull a Megyn.
“A “Wall” will take years to build, but people can be put to border security work in a few weeks.”
A temp fence with 100’s of thousands of miles of concertina wire could be erected in less than a month. It should have done 2 years ago.
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