Tucker Carlson compared Canada to stalkers on Wednesday in a dismissive follow-up to calls for the US to attack Canada. (See the video below.)
Earlier this week, the Fox News host bounced between seriousness and sarcasm on Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today” as he suggested the armed forces liberate Canada from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “And I mean it,” he said. He then laughed and said he was talking to himself “going crazy.”
On the premiere of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday, the right-wing personality added insult to injury.
He accused Trudeau of running a dictatorship and said, “We are Americans. We don’t like dictators. We liberate dictatorships. That’s what we do.”
Carlson played it back when he asked why the US had not taken military action against its northern neighbor to remove Trudeau.
“It’s a fair question and honestly we think Canadians will be flattered because they always like it when you talk about them,” Carlson said. “They’re like stalkers: You don’t know it’s there but they have pictures of you in your dorm room.”
“So if you make a Canadian joke on TV, they’re crazy,” he said. “They don’t know how to handle it. Or what it means. But it doesn’t matter. They’re excited.”
Carlson pivoted to a recording of Canadian lawmaker Matthew Green proposing a resolution to punish the Fox News host for his comments. It’s a down vote.
“We are not recommending that the armed forces liberate Canada,” Carlson said, although he did. “You’re praising yourself, Canadian parliamentarian. We don’t need an armed force.
Carlson sneered that a couple of college kids with sled dogs could do the trick.