Tucker Carlson on Wednesday spoke out publicly for the first time since this week’s announcement that he was no longer employed at Fox News.
Carlson doesn’t address his former employer or his future plans in his new video posted on Twitter, but he does gripe about the “unbelievably stupid” debates taking place on television.
“They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing,” said Carlson, who devoted his Fox News platform to topics such as the green M&M’s sexiness levels and testicle tanning. “In five years, we won’t even remember that we had them. Trust me as someone who’s participated.”
Carlson, who has admitted to lying on the air, also complained that there aren’t many places where “true things” are said.
His critics on Twitter responded to his video with some blunt reminders of his own history:
