Tucker Carlson’s “dead in the eye” denial to posit President Donald Trump as a “supernatural evil being” presented a litmus test on trust for Scott Jennings.
While theories have circulated about a number of well-known figures on the right turning on the president — namely involving grift — what’s certain is that Trump has dismissed them as “low IQ” people. Counted among them was Carlson, who recently found himself in a “boxed canyon” regarding his own wild Antichrist statements about the chief executive, sufficient to merit rare praise for the New York Times at what Jennings deemed a “masterful job leading.”
Out of several viral moments from the Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s interview with the former Fox News host, Jennings turned his focus on the animus directed at the president and said, “Tucker Carlson has turned against President Trump in the most personal way that you possibly can. He is mad at Trump over the war in Iran, he says, and on his show, if you’ve heard it, he has at times argued or at least questioned whether Donald Trump is the Antichrist.”
Did Tucker Carlson really *forget* that he wondered if President Trump could be the antichrist?
It’s immediately evident why this jaw-dropping interview moment went viral 👇 pic.twitter.com/Nl8SB7huTr
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 4, 2026
“He has also said in this interview that he believes Donald Trump is a slave or a hostage to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu or Israel or the Jews or what have you … It seems to me it has to be one or the other: Are you a supernatural evil being, or are you some weak hostage or slave to other people? I don’t think you could be both,” continued the Salem News Channel host who introduced the exchange between Garcia-Navarro and Carlson.
“You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist,” she said as her guest responded bluntly, “I have not said that.”
“On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony as president,” Garcia-Navarro reminded. “You said, and I’m quoting, ‘Maybe he didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what’s inside that book.’ And then on a recent show, you went further, saying, ‘Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist?”
Continuing his denial, Carlson replied, “I actually did not say, ‘Could this be the Antichrist?'”
Jennings called out how the commentator “looks her dead in the eye and denies it,” before continuing the exchange where Garcia-Navarro shared the clip with the exact quote, prompting the deflection, “I don’t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I’m not sure I fully understand what the Antichrist is. If there’s just one, I actually tried to understand it. I may have said, ‘Some are asking that.’ I’m not weighing in on that because I don’t understand it.”
Worth noting, Carlson has himself admitted to having suffered an unexplained physical attack “that left claw marks” on his side that he seemingly attributed to demonic vexation.
“I have no idea what happened,” he told John Heers in the documentary “Christianities?” “All I know is I was dead asleep with my wife and dogs, and I woke up with claw marks on my rib cage, underneath my arms. And it didn’t make sense. No one has to believe me. I don’t care. But that happened to me.”
Tucker reveals he was ‘physically mauled’ in bed by possible demon who left ‘claw marks’ https://t.co/cUl02q8Ohj via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) November 1, 2024
Regarding the denial to Garcia-Navarro, Jennings went on, “So what you heard there was direct evidence from Tucker’s show that, yes, he was wondering aloud about whether Donald Trump is the Antichrist, and then you heard him continue to deny it to Lulu, who did, by the way, a masterful job leading him into this boxed canyon there. But what’s amazing is that he has raised this, and they have profited off of it, they have promoted it, they have marketed it, and then, when confronted with it, immediately backs away from it. You heard the evidence.”
In conclusion, the commentator made a rare suggestion for viewers to visit the Times’ site and watch the interview for themselves, “I think you should listen to the slander against Donald Trump, I think you oughta listen to the contradictions, I think you oughta listen to all of it and ask yourself who do you trust here? Who’s judgement do you trust? I think I’ll stick with the president.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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