Posted on 06/19/2025 6:43:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN
U.S. — In an explosive new interview, Tucker Carlson laid into Senator Ted Cruz for not knowing the name of the Iranian Ayatollah's favorite starter Pokémon.
The interview ranged in topics from Iran to Ukraine, but the most damning moment was when Carlson stumped Cruz with a simple question about Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's favorite starter.
"What's the favorite starter Pokémon of the ayatollah, by the way?" Tucker asked 90 minutes into their 2-hour interview.
Cruz, visibly caught off guard, was forced to admit he didn't know.
"At all?" Tucker pressed, incredulous. "You don't know the favorite starter Pokémon of the supreme leader you're trying to overthrow?"
Khamenei, an avid Pokémon fan, traditionally chooses fire-type Pokémon. In Pokémon Red he went with Charmander, but his absolute favorite is Chimchar, which first appeared in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl.
"How can you not know that?" Carlson asked.
"I don't sit around memorizing the favorite starter Pokémon of world leaders," Cruz said.
The interview got heated from there as Cruz and Carlson went at each other, accusing each of not knowing enough about Pokémon.
At publishing time, Senator Ted Cruz removed Tucker Carlson as a friend on his Nintendo account, essentially blocking him from ever trading Pokémon with him ever again.
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He might as well just take his Pokemon cards and go home.
Could explain why Free republic gets hard up for money-posts like this.
Lol - Good one by the Bee.
The “BEE” at its BEST!
LOL! Tucker has definitely jumped the shark.
Cruz- dripping hubris and under prepared.
That was a career ending interview for Lyin’ Ted.
Tucker Carlson deserves to be lampooned after his ridiculous and disrespectful behavior towards a sitting US Senator.
He was acting like a jackass.....and a proper one at that.
Please stop posting these Babylon bee stories! I’m old, it’s early, I laugh too long and hard, the bathroom is too far away……. Have mercy! Please!
I couldn’t believe that Tucker interview. Why was Tucker pestering him for specific details about iran. Nobody has all those facts stored in their head about every single country. What was Tucker trying to do?
I laughed, but then remembered that Tucker is doing great harm to our president, all for money. Disgusting.
Well, may I suggest adult Depends? 😁
+1
Why did Cruz react in such an ugly manner?
Why can’t these people stop hating on Trump and take a lesson? Say “that’s a nasty irrelevant question”?
Tucker wants the Congress to stop feeding the war machine. He’s asking how many civilians would be involved. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s why Cruz was embarrassed for not knowing
We’ve been overseas involving a lot of civilians for decade
Ukraine for instance
I’m sure Carlson had to research all that bs data up himself before his little gotcha moment.
If he’s so concerned about our country he should run for political office and try to make a difference instead of hiding behind a microphone and pointing fingers from the sideline like a coward.
It’s the way Carlson went about it.
Instead of a respectful discussion he opted for gotcha questions and behaving like a rude snotty little shit that kept interrupting Cruz when he was trying to answer his questions.
If he was trying to get a sitting US Senator to see his point of view he failed miserably because he was being a jerk.
Tubby Cruz got exposed as the sleazy feline swamp creature he is.
It was glorious!
In a week nobody will remember any of it.
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