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Tucker Carlson 'Explains' Why the U.S. Captured Maduro | WATCH
Does Tucker actually belive the words coming out his mouth, and just how much has Qatar paid him to boldly state ridiculous assumptions and assertions based on hot air?
(Ex) Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is facing bipartisan ridicule after a resurfaced clip from his October 2024 podcast went viral, where he bizarrely suggested that U.S. efforts to oust Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro were motivated by a desire to impose gay marriage on the socially conservative nation. With Maduro now captured by U.S. forces on January 3 and facing narcoterrorism charges in New York, critics are piling on Carlson's outlandish theory, dubbing him the "oldest living Groyper" and questioning if he's lost the plot.
In the clip, Carlson argued there's a "distinct possibility" that America is "mad that [Maduro] doesn't allow gay marriage," framing Venezuela under Maduro as "one of the most conservative countries" in the Western Hemisphere for banning gay marriage, abortion and even usury.
He claimed the U.S.-backed opposition, including figures like María Corina Machado who support gay marriage, proves the push is "globo homo," his derogatory term for global progressive elites, rather than concerns over Maduro's authoritarian rule or drug trafficking.
"So to those of you who thought this whole project was globo-homo? Not crazy, actually," Carlson quipped, apparently forgetting that Maduro's regime is better known for economic collapse, human rights abuses, and alliances with drug cartels than for championing traditional values.
The timing couldn't be worse for Carlson, as the video recirculated just days after President Trump's administration executed the daring raid in Caracas, capturing Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores without a single mention of rainbow flags or wedding cakes.
Instead, the White House justified the operation as a national security imperative to combat narco-terrorism threatening U.S. borders.
But leave it to Tucker to turn a geopolitical takedown into a culture war fever dream – because why focus on facts when you can blame the "globo homo" boogeyman?
Fellow conservatives aren't letting him off easy. Ben Shapiro blasted Carlson's claim as nonsense, pointing out that Maduro isn't a true social conservative and that the ouster was led by a "gutsy" Republican president, not progressive forces.
Dinesh D'Souza mocked him on X as the "oldest living Groyper," highlighting how Carlson's theory reduces a complex intervention to absurd speculation about gay marriage.
Even social media users piled on, with one Facebook post asking, "Is Tucker okay? Because apparently it's all about gay marriage."
Left-leaning critics joined the chorus, calling the take a "sigh"-inducing distraction from real issues like international law violations raised at the U.N. Security Council.
As Venezuelans celebrate their liberation from a tyrant who wrecked their economy and suppressed dissent, Carlson's fixation on fictional rainbow agendas only underscores his drift into fringe territory, proving once again that in Tucker's world, every global event is just one "globo homo" conspiracy away from explaining everything.