The View cohosts are not impressed after former Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed his regret for his role in helping President Donald Trump get elected for a second time.
“Do you know who just lost one of his biggest supporters over the ongoing war in Iran?” lead moderator Whoopi Goldberg said on the Tuesday, April 21, episode of The View. “Far-right commentator Tucker Carlson says he regrets ever helping put you-know-who in the White House.”
The morning show then showed a now-viral clip of Carlson, 56, saying that “everyone who supported” Trump, 79, is now “implicated” in the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing war with Iran.
“It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind,’ or, ‘This is bad, I’m out.’ It’s very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now,” the former Fox News personality said on a recent episode of his Tucker Carlson Show.
Carlson continued, “I do think it’s a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. We’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be. And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional.”
After the clip ended, Joy Behar quipped, “Oh please.”
Sunny Hostin added that she doesn’t find Carlson’s new sentiments to be genuine or believable.
“Whatever. I don’t believe him. He’s not getting a bear hug from me,” Hostin, 57, said. “The world’s on fire, and you can’t just say, ‘Oopsies!'”
Behar, 83, shared that she thinks Carlson is experiencing “what they call liar’s remorse.”
“He’s lied about everything, so he needs to make a list of all the things he got wrong — not just, ‘Sorry!'” Behar said.
Sara Haines echoed similar sentiments, claiming that Carlson will “say anything” to generate “clicks and money.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who previously worked in Trump’s first administration, condemned Carlson for the “dangerous” rhetoric he has espoused in the past.
“I don’t think this is a true about-face,” Griffin, 36, said of the political commentator’s alleged regret, adding that she felt his apology is “about clicks and money.”
Carlson and Trump have been at odds in recent months due to the media personality’s recent criticism of the president. Trump has retaliated by publicly slamming any podcaster for critiquing his administration.
“I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote via his TruthSocial platform earlier this month. “They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!”
