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Posted on 07/25/2026 10:58:12 AM PDT by dennisw
Is VP Vance the front man in a coup d’état?
Once upon a time––in 2017, according to VP JD Vance––a state senator from Ohio met an already-arrived conservative commentator and they had what is commonly known as chemistry. They connected. They liked each other. They agreed about major issues, except for one.
The state senator––that would be Mr. Vance––loathed President Trump and spared no invective to describe him as “America’s Hitler” and “Unfit for our nation’s highest office,” and “Trump is cultural heroin,” and "I'm a Never Trump guy…"
But the conservative commentator––that would be Tucker Carlson––touted POTUS 45 relentlessly and was quite excited by the prospect of 45 becoming 47.
That difference notwithstanding, Mr. Vance started making frequent appearances on Fox News with Tucker Carlson Tonight. According to Matt Gertz at Media Matters for America, “Carlson did more than provide Vance with a massive platform…On the air, he vouched for Vance to his audience, lavishing him with praise and declaring his personal admiration.”
By 2018–2020, Carlson had become Vance’s primary Fox interviewer, hosting 15 of his 17 Fox appearances during that period.
KAPOW!
And then––in April 2023––in a move that appeared inexplicable and gave rise to numerous theories, Fox fired Tucker Carlson. Thirteen months later, in May 2024, Carlson went on to a daily podcast that featured fawning interviews of extreme racists, anti-Semites, America-loathers, and other characters that caused listeners to both marvel and cringe at the almost Messianic conversion of Carlson from a rock-ribbed conservative to a supporter of Qatar, the sponsor of Hamas, and essentially all things Islam.
And as night follows day, he went from touting Israel as an amazing state to calling it “one of the ugliest countries in the world.”
According to Timothy Jankowski, Carlson “doesn’t just argue against supporting Israel financially, he claims that Hamas is just ‘a political organization’ and that Israel is carrying out a genocide; he doesn’t just oppose the Iran war, he wants you to know that Iran is a peaceful country that wants to settle disputes through diplomacy.”
Was this bizarre turnabout a direct reaction to learning that President Trump had passed him over for a position in the White House? After all, his was and continues to be among the loudest and most fanatical voices of condemnation of both the Republican Party and––what a coincidence––President Trump!
How could such a dramatic change happen? In psychology, Carlson’s behavior––after the Fox firing and the snub by the president––is called narcissistic injury, a term described by Freud but made popular by psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut in the 1970s. It is a deep emotional wound or insult experienced by a narcissist when his or her inflated self-image or grandiosity is threatened or exposed.
Some narcissists sink into depression when this happens and it takes years, sometimes a lifetime, to recover, if they ever do. But others become enraged and energized and vengeful, obsessed with “getting back” at the people they believed wronged them.
In fact, Pres. Trump nailed it when he commented: “Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn’t even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he’s never been the same — Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!”
TUCKER’S ALLY
As mentioned, Carlson and JD Vance have a friendship that goes way back. Not way way back to, say, childhood. But back at least eight or nine years. They are so close that Vance hired Tucker’s son Buckley to the plum job of Deputy Press Secretary, which he kept until April 2026, ostensibly to set up his own political-consulting firm.
So, for 15 months, while Tucker Carlson was slandering and vilifying Israel and its leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu––while Israel was fighting the surrounding violent jihadists whose mission statements vow to kill all Jews and destroy Israel, and his boss, President Trump, was giving Israel his full verbal and military support––it never occurred to JD Vance to fire—or at least let go–– this potential mole of a deputy press secretary.
And it never occurred to JD Vance to condemn Carlson for his ferocious anti-Semitic racism.
And it never occurred to JD Vance to end a friendship with a man who now expressed a deep and abiding hatred for all the things they had once agreed were valuable.
To me, this is a shining example of Vance’s bad character. But I’ve already written about that.
Does JD Vance think that his fidelity to Tucker Carlson is a virtue to be admired and emulated? Is that what he will teach his children––that it doesn’t matter if your friend is a racist and by his behavior and statements embarrasses you and hurts America… stick with him!
Why does a friend of mine and a self-described political junkie call JD Vance’s role in this administration sedition?
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JD and Tucker have been tight for a long time. Tucker’s son was on JD’s VP staff but left a few months ago.
Don Jr was a prime booster for getting JD in as VP candidate. Even though JD had been in elective office only 2x years. And this was as Ohio Senator
Old (and FAKE) News.
A week ago it was fashionable to play the Vance = Carlson card. But the truth has come out and these MarcoBots have been discredited.
Move on.
The author, Joan Swirsky, spent 20 years at the NYT, so this should be regarded for what it is. That said, I have no issues with JD. He is much more closely aligned with MAGA issues circa 2016/20/24 right now, than the man who founded the movement, who as our current President is currently lost in a sea of his own hubris and missteps.
Good Lord. Take off your tinfoil hat.
Orders go out to sink Vance? A lot of these lately.
Pence was. Why not Vance? (I don’t think he is, but it happens.)
Classic example of communist disinformation...
Most people always circle back to their roots from where ever they ventured first after leaving their roots. I have seen it up close and personal. One day something in them just clicks and they feel like they have betrayed their roots or something and they revert.
The problem with Vance is that he is still finding himself. He keeps getting close to whatever that is. Maybe some day his EQ will catch up with his IQ.
There is probably a lot good in Vance but some of his associations give me pause. Not the least of which is Peter Thiel. He is such a strong minded and loyal American Patriot he is hollowing out some kind of redoubt in Argentina just for starters. As for Carlson, he has lost his freaking mind or ran out of money and sold out to the best offer he could find. Who the hell knows? I have better and more important things to think of.
Right now I am promoting Jazz Musician Felines. These little guys play all day giving all they’ve got for kibble. Now, that is a passion! They did get what they want most of all though in exchange for their work, Thumbs.
I’ll take Rubio any day of the week.
I’m sick of Vance and Rubio and this endless speculation and gossip. To hell with both of them.
Brandon Gill is better than both of them.
“I regret being wrong about the guy,” Vance said about Trump several days later on the campaign trail. “I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.” He later added: “He’s the best president of my lifetime.”
Brandon Gill is better than both of them.
I believe he is a few months short of being eligible for 2028.
IMHO Gill should try to run for Texas Governor, before going for POTUS.
Sounds like the author’s wet dream. Is there any proof behind this batch of stories?
“As for Carlson, he has lost his freaking mind or ran out of money “
Last week I heard that there’s a lawsuit where Tucker and his brother are adversaries in a case against their stepsister over the Swanson Foods fortune.
Their stepmother is the Swanson heir. Her daughter is her biological daughter, while Tucker and Buckley aren’t in the Swanson lineage.
Tucker and Buckley are wealthy in their own right. This could get interesting.
“And it never occurred to JD Vance to end a friendship with a man who now expressed a deep and abiding hatred for all the things they had once agreed were valuable.”
Like a Democrat-Leftist would?
Pretty transparent, isn't it.
And this article is very weak.
I’m sure DeSantis is enjoying this Marco v JD circus.
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