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Tucker’s interview with Putin breaks the internet – reactions

February 9, 2024 | | Print Article

Regardless of your political affiliation, it was, without question, the most anticipated interview in modern memory: A two-hour sitdown with a man the Western world has assured us is a psychopathic aggressor, hell-bent on destroying democracy in all its forms, with no regard for the lives that are lost in his ravenous quest for global domination.

For daring to even want to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin, journalist Tucker Carlson was demonized as the propaganda puppet of a bloodthirsty maniac before two words were exchanged between them.

So, when the interview finally dropped on X and the Tucker Carlson Network, it’s a wonder the world didn’t stop rotating, if only for a moment.

Less than 24 hours after it was posted on X, the conversation that some predicted would spark a “civil war” in America has racked up more than 82 million views.

While many may have tuned in expecting to see a cat-stroking James Bond villain, what they got was an in-depth history lesson from an eloquent leader who appeared sincere in his desire to have a “serious conversation.”

On any day, it would have been enough to stir up a social media frenzy, but, as fate would have it, Thursday also saw President Joe Biden face off with the media in what many are calling the most disastrous press conference in the history of press conferences.

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As Putin effortlessly recalled “the establishment of the Russian state in 862,” President Biden, in an effort to prove he isn’t senile, was forgetting “the name of the church where his late son Beau got the rosary he now wears every day” and confusing Egypt’s leader with the president of Mexico.

The comparisons were as plentiful as they were brutal.

“President Putin just showed the World with Tucker Carlson that he can accurately recount Centuries of History,” said influencer Liz Churchill. “Joe Biden is an embarrassment.”

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“Putin just spent 28+ minutes going through 100s of years of Eastern European history without a single note on him,” wrote the popular End Wokeness account. “Biden has no clue what he ate for lunch. Utterly terrifying.”

“Whoever thought having Biden do a press conference after the Putin interview needs to be fired,”  declared another X user. “Putin: ‘Let me give you a half-hour, college-level lecture on Russia’s 900-year political history from memory.’ Biden: ‘The Mexican president should open the border with Gaza.'”

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It was an unintended consequence of allowing Putin to address Americans that no one could have seen coming, and it is now by far the dominant takeaway on X:


To make matters worse for the Biden administration, when they weren’t marveling at Putin’s grasp of history, users on X were praising Carlson for “opening the door” to peace:

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“Thank you for doing this interview Tucker,” one X user wrote, “you’re America’s last real journalist.”

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