'Laugh out loud!' Ex-GOP congressman predicts ex-Trump ally will 'come crawling back'
April 22, 2026
A former Republican congressman dismissed a mea culpa from one of the most prominent MAGA voices as essentially worthless.
Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News broadcaster who was ultimately terminated for spreading 2020 election lies, expressed regret this week for "misleading" his podcast listeners about President Donald Trump, and CNN's Audie Cornish asked her panelists to comment.
"So the president has called Tucker a 'low-IQ person' becausehe is extremely upset with howhe's reacting," Cornish said. "My group chat ispeople either being, like, thegrift is strong or this reflectsan actual sentiment. Where are we on the spectrum?"
Charlie Dent, a former GOP congressman from Pennsylvania, wrote off Carlson's remarks entirely.
"Oh my goodness, I mean, laughout loud," Dent said. "Look, he's been upsetbefore, after Jan. 6, you know, he was, you know, [he called Trump ademonic force. He said all sorts – but he came crawlingback."
"He'll come back home because look, these guys have monetized, they're making a lot of money off of this stuff," Dent added, "and I can't imagine he's going to have a real permanent rupture with Trump because he probably will lose market share and audience. He'll be back."
The other panelists agreed, and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright said Carlson had much more to apologize for than boosting Trump's campaigns.
"Tucker Carlson used all ofhis platforms for many yearsamplifying right-wing extremehate, bigotry, racism andanything else, so certainly wedo not take his commentaryserious," Seawright said, "and I think what the 'America first' crowd is figuringout that there's no interestlike self interest when it comesto Donald Trump. He is not aprincipled man. He does not havea core, and now they'refiguring it out."
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