Tommy Vitor

I mean, there's a theory that, um,

Murdoch himself became uncomfortable just with the amount of power that Tucker had amassed inside the network and just in his world.

I mean, there's this famous story that Tucker went out to Murdoch's estate in California not too long before he was fired to have, I guess –

lunch or some meal with Rupert Murdoch and his then fiance.

And his then fiance was a huge Tucker Carlson fan, so much that she thought he was a messenger for God and told this to Tucker during the meal.

And Murdoch was so kind of weirded out by this that the next day he broke off the engagement and then not much longer Tucker was fired.

So that one seems not implausible to me.

I think the guy you see on his show today is who he is.

He's not chummy with DC people anymore, I don't think.

I think that he – during the first Trump presidency, he really – I think he realized that the place that he kind of held in Washington society was no longer tenable because of Trump.

I mean he was always kind of the – like the invited skunk to the garden party.

Like liberal DC people would have him for –

You know, dinner parties and go out with him and be friends with him.

And he would say outrageous things and they were just going, oh, that's Tucker.

You know, but I think when Trump came into office, that was really no longer tenable.

And it got to the point that he had to leave D.C.

I mean, and, you know, when he left D.C., he really he cut off all of his kind of contact with those people.

And he now lives in a very.

kind of hermetically sealed world, you know, up in Maine and down in Florida.

Like on an island, literally in Maine.