Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson said he has no plans to seek the presidency, days after declaring that he was “out” of the Republican Party.
“Of course I’m not planning to run for president,” Carlson said during an interview with podcaster Alex Jones.
“I mean, of course, never said or done anything that would suggest I have an interest in political office, because I don’t,” Carlson added. “I never have an interest in political office ever. It’s just not kind of what I do for a living. It’s not what I’m interested in. I really don’t like politicians.”
Carlson also praised a potential White House bid for Vice President JD Vance, contrasting him favorably with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“Obviously, he’s great compared to Rubio,” Carlson said.
The comments come after Carlson announced last week that he was breaking with the Republican establishment.
“I’m out,” he said during an appearance on the Can’t Be Censored podcast. “And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.”
Following Carlson’s remarks, former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene signaled her own frustration with the Republican Party.
“Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
Carlson, who said he has spent 35 years defending the GOP, argued that the party has lost its moral direction.
TUCKER CARLSON SAYS ‘I’M OUT’ OF REPUBLICAN PARTY: ‘NO DEFENDING THIS’
“There’s no defending this because it’s immoral, and it’s exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation, and they’re not doing that,” he said.
The war in Iran has been a source of much of the right’s dissatisfaction with the president. In April, Trump directly criticized Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Jones for doubting him, adding that they have “low IQs.”