Tucker Carlson mixed it up with a provocateur who brought up his late father during a heated exchange as he fielded questions from the audience at a sold-out Turning Point USA event on Tuesday.
The conservative journalist and podcaster spoke to a packed house as part of the organization’s American Comeback Tour, just over a month after TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, a murder that shocked the nation.
As he engaged with the crowd at Indiana University on a variety of topics, Carlson clashed with the audience member who suggested that there was little difference between the Trump and Biden administrations when it comes to funding the war in Ukraine, and struck a nerve when he mentioned Richard Carlson, who passed away earlier this year.
Tucker Carlson snapped at a college student who mentioned his father’s CIA ties.
“Leave my father out of it. I’m gonna have to kick your ass, which I can do, by the way, if you bring him up again, ’cause he was a wonderful man — whatever he did for a living. I really do hate… pic.twitter.com/1OwerOHCN3
— AF Post (@AFpost) October 23, 2025
“I just don’t see a lot of change between, you know, the Biden administration and now the Trump one and foreign policy,” the student said. “We’re still giving a sh*t ton of money to like Israel and Ukraine.”
“He promised it’d be done in a day, and…it’s how many months? Eight months or something like that,” the questioner continued. “Your dad was in the CIA, and I was wondering, does our government even want the war to stop? Do they want conflicts to end?”
While saying that he agreed with much of the student’s foreign policy criticism, he took exception to the dragging of his father into it.
“Leave my father out of it,” Carlson said, then jokingly added, “I’m gonna have to kick your ass, which I could do, by the way, if you bring him up again because he was a wonderful man, whatever he did for a living.”
“I really do hate that,” he added. “But leaving that aside … and don’t test me, son.”
The senior Carlson died at the age of 84-years-old on March 24 at his home in Boca Grande, Florida.
Dick Carlson, an award-winning journalist, ran the Voice of America during the latter days of the Cold War, and according to an obituary posted to X by his son, his work was mysterious to the family.
Obituary for my father.
Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his… pic.twitter.com/4lMygMkSIT
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 26, 2025
“The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues,” the obit read.
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