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Tucker Carlson apologizes to Trump and others he’s been mean to, including ‘poor Ted Cruz’

September 9, 2025 | | Print Article

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on Monday apologized to everybody he’s ever snapped at, including President Donald Trump, during a discussion with commentator Piers Morgan.

However, the discussion on the eponymous “Piers Morgan Uncensored” didn’t start with him apologizing, but in fact the very opposite.

It began with Morgan asking him to confirm whether it was true that he’d privately apologized to President Trump in June.

At the time, the president claimed Carlson had called him to apologize for having previously criticized his support for Israel’s airstrikes on Iran.

According to Carlson, this claim was false.

“I am a champion apologizer. I really believe in apologies. I have a lot to apologize for, I always have. We all do. I certainly do,” he began. “But I also think that, you know, you shouldn’t proffer a false apology. You should apologize for things that you did wrong, you know, and I didn’t do anything wrong there, and I wasn’t attacking anybody.”

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“I wasn’t attacking Israel. I wasn’t attacking. I was merely saying, ‘In my capacity as someone with strong opinions, I think this is an unwise course.’ And I still think that. It’s not an attack on Trump, who I voted for and campaigned for and really like. It’s my view, and so that’s not something I would apologize for because it wasn’t wrong, it was my duty, and I still believe it,” he added.

This wasn’t the first time he’d denied the claim.

Morgan responded by noting that what Carlson had just said seemed like “a clear repudiation” of what the president had claimed in June.

“No, it’s not that,” Carlson replied. “It’s just that, look, I said what I said, which wasn’t very complex or sophisticated. It certainly wasn’t hate-filled.”

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But, Carlson continued, he understands that he can be a temperamental person, and so, on account of that, he decided to preemptively apologize to everybody he’s ever or will ever speak harshly to.

“You know, I will just be totally honest with you and say I’m kind of an unpleasant person when I get mad,” he admitted. “And like if I’m ever rude, which I often have been to people, that is worth apologizing for, and I’m sorry. I want to pre-emptively apologize for being a jerk because I often am.”

Morgan responded this time by wondering whether Carlson had indeed apologized to Trump but had simply forgotten.

“I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but could it have been you apologized, perhaps for the tone of the way you criticized what Trump had done, rather than apologize for your view of what he did?” he said.

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“I have no idea if I actually did that, but if I haven’t done that, let me do it now,” Carlson replied. “I apologize to him and everyone else I’ve snapped at or been mean to, even poor Ted Cruz, who, you know, I don’t think is the most evil. He’s just controlled by a foreign power. I feel sorry for him, he’s like kind of desperate and wants money or whatever his motive is, but I was rude to him and I’m sorry.”

“I’m just that way. People in my family have pointed that out, when I get mad, I get snappy and cutting. I went to boarding school as a kid. They inculcate that in you. The cruelty of the dorm. And I’ve been fighting against it my whole life, so I’m just– I’m sorry,” he concluded.

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