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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:19 PM Dec 2018

Tucker Carlson says Trump is 'not capable' and hasn't kept his promises

By Deanna Paul

December 6 at 4:05 PM

Fox New host Tucker Carlson set straight any misinformation concerning his views on President Trump: “I don’t think he’s capable,” he said during an interview on Tuesday.

Urs Gehriger, an editor at “Die Weltwoche,” the country’s leading German-language opinion weekly, noted that Carlson’s new book, "Ship of Fools,” is silent on Trump but comments on his critics. And so, Gehriger jump-started the conversation by asking what Carlson thought of Trump’s first two years in office.

Carlson claimed he cannot stand Trump’s self-aggrandizement and boasting. Then, when asked whether Trump has kept his promises, the usually quick-witted and long-winded Carlson had just one word: “No.”

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Carlson has often been a measured Trump supporter. But he continued to disparage the president when Gehriger probed for more.

“His chief promises were that he would build the wall, defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson said, adding that those goals were probably lost causes. Trump, he said, doesn’t understand the system, and his own agencies don’t support him.

“He knows very little about the legislative process, hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn’t done all the things you need to do, so it’s mostly his fault that he hasn’t achieved those things,” added Carlson.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/06/hes-not-capable-trump-has-achieved-nothing-tucker-carlson-says/

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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
4. Exactly my thoughts while reading the article at the WaPo...
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:29 PM
Dec 2018

the rats are fleeing the sinking ship. Every day it seems, there's a new article about someone from Fox State TV running away

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)
6. Hannity is probably linked to something illegal regarding Trump /Russia
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:32 PM
Dec 2018

I seem to remember him being in touch with Assange.

He may be stuck with Trump.

flyingfysh

(1,990 posts)
3. Trump has accomplished some things
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:23 PM
Dec 2018

He has succeeded in making the climate crisis much worse. He has succeeded in wrecking the economy by a bill which increases the national debt by gigantic amounts. He probably has succeeded in Ukraine getting lost to Russia. And he has made Nazis everywhere much happier.

ffr

(22,668 posts)
8. Abandon ship, 25th ammendment this turkey before Pence down goes too!
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:47 PM
Dec 2018

The KGOP's best hope is to install Ryan as president while they still have the opportunity to power grab.

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