Tucker Carlson plans to ‘help build a third party’ after break-up with Trump

American ultraconservative broadcaster Tucker Carlson has announced that he will help build a third party in the United States.

In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Carlson said the top priority of any American administration should be improving Americans' lives instead of pursuing wars and reconstruction efforts in West Asia.

"We need a third party. I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country. I mean, if you make $60,000 a year, you’re degraded. Your life expectancy has gone down, and the promise of your children’s lives is likely gone. No one seems to care. It’s not even a factor. What about Hamas? I officially don’t care about Hamas. The US government should have, as its first priority, the welfare of its own people," said Carlson.

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The announcement comes after Carlson publicly broke away from President Donald Trump's Maga movement over the war with Iran in particular and foreign policy in general. He quit the Republican Party last month after 35 years.

But Carlson ruled out running for office.

Explaining his rationale for wanting to establish a new party, Carlson said he saw little difference between the Democrats and Republicans.

"If you vote for Trump and you still wind up in a regime-change war, if Chuck Schumer is strongly behind Trump’s foreign policy, which he is, then we need options, or else let’s just give up and be ruled by the most unscrupulous people. And I’m just too young to accept that," said Carlson.

'I feel sorry for him': Carlson on Trump

Carlson said he felt sorry for Trump and for all those whom he believed had been enslaved. He did not specify who he believed had enslaved Trump.

"I feel sorry for him. He’s not a man in charge of his own life at this point. I feel sorry for anybody who’s enslaved, including him. I mean, I visited him three times at the White House in the month before the Twelve-Day War, and I told him the same thing all three times: 'You’re not gonna see the rise of a democratic, pro-Western government in Tehran. The best you’re gonna see there is just this suppurating wound,'" said Carlson.

Carlson represents the ultraconservative isolationist wing of the Republican Party that opposes involvement in wars and conflicts abroad. He opposes American support for Israel and Ukraine, is supportive of Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin, and is a critic of Nato.

Even as Carlson's break-up with Trump, which is part of the broader split on the Right, and opposition to the war with Iran have won him supporters on the Left, he remains fundamentally opposed to immigration, abortion, and transgender rights. He also maintains ties with far-right figures, such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes.