Nicolle Wallace Slams Tucker Carlson’s Trump Apology: ‘I Don’t Believe You’

Nicolle Wallace of Deadline: White House on MSNBC sharply rejected Tucker Carlson’s recent apology for his role in helping elect Donald Trump, calling it both insufficient and insincere.

“I don’t know, I don’t know. I just don’t know,” Wallace said at the start of her Tuesday broadcast. She then played a clip of Carlson’s Monday-night apology to his brother Buckley Carlson, in which he expressed regret for misleading voters.

“I do think it’s a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. We’ll be tormented by it for a long time — I will be. And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”

Wallace responded with skepticism:

“That was Tucker Carlson, for any suckers who still watching him, apparently experiencing or at least projecting a brand new persona that embodies this regret and torment and self-loathing for helping Donald Trump three times.”

She emphasized Carlson’s long-standing support for Trump, noting that Carlson had backed Trump in all three of his presidential runs.

“Tucker helped him three times. Trump has run three times, and Tucker was there all the way,” Wallace said.

She also acknowledged the influence Carlson still wields over parts of the conservative media landscape, including figures like Megyn Kelly, despite his apology.

“It’s another thing that Trump has to grapple with, it’s another symptom of the public displays of buyer’s remorse that we are now seeing from key members of Trump’s winning coalition,” Wallace added.

The fractures within the MAGA movement were further discussed by Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, who joined the program as a guest. While he acknowledged the significance of Carlson’s apology, Carusone warned that the underlying reasons for such regret may be “unsettling and scary.”