“Tucker on Twitter” launched Tuesday with a report on the blown dam in Ukraine — a primary episode that, apart from extra pure lighting, totally different background and shorter size, seems and sounds loads like “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
In regards to the launch of his new present, there was no fanfare. “Hey, it’s Tucker Carlson,” he mentioned, then launched straight into his report on the dam assault, suggesting Ukraine and/or the US might have finished it — as if it had been a daily Tuesday evening on the Fox Information Channel.
The inaugural episode was solely 10.5 minutes, far shy of the total 8 p.m. hour Carlson used to cowl as a top-rated host on Fox Information. However again then, he was additionally working with a full complement of Fox assets like editors and producers — to not point out the total set that Fox got here to reclaim from his summer time house in Maine.
Even within the shorter timeframe, Carlson was in a position to contact on a number of of his favourite matters of yore, together with new testimony about stories of UAP (the artists previously referred to as UFOs) from throughout the navy, the media, transgenderism, the BLM riots, Jeffrey Epstein, JFK and different best hits.
Carlson introduced Could 9 that he can be taking his present to Twitter, although no timeline was given, and Elon Musk mentioned solely that Carlson can be handled like some other content material creator.
It has by no means actually been made publicly clear whether or not Carlson had been launched from his TV contract, reported to be about $10 million yearly and operating by 2025, which might theoretically stop him from beginning a rival present.
Fox Information didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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