Tucker Carlson on Thursday mocked his former employer Fox News for apologizing after referring to Joe Biden as a ‘wannabe dictator’ – insisting that the president was indeed dictatorial, and likening certain aspects to Saddam Hussein, Kim Il-sung and Nicolae Ceausescu.
Fox on Tuesday night broadcast a chyron showing Biden and Donald Trump, shortly after Trump was arrested in Miami.
‘Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested,’ the chyron read.
Fox apologized, and Carlson – who until April was their top-rated host – ridiculed the network for their apology.
‘But why were they angry? If the banner on Fox was false? Why the hysteria?,’ said Carlson in his 13-minute Twitter show, which has replaced his Fox primetime slot.
Tucker Carlson on Thursday aired the fourth episode of ‘Tucker on Twitter’ – this time accusing Joe Biden of behaving like a dictator
‘Lies don’t seem to bother anyone anymore. If some cable news producer had called Joe Biden a genius or accused him of being secretly Sudanese, would anyone be yelling about it? Would Fox News have apologized for it? Probably not.
‘But calling Joe Biden a wannabe dictator, that stung.’
Carlson then began mockingly listing the ways Biden ‘could not possibly’ be a dictator – referencing government surveillance on phones and bank accounts, and a crackdown on ‘peaceful protest’, like the January 6 riot.
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‘The main reason that Joe Biden is not a wannabe dictator is because he just does not fit the profile, as a man,’ said Carlson.
‘Dictators have that look: you know one when you see one.
‘Dictators build cults of personality around themselves, and they use those cults to deny the glaringly obvious.’
Carlson then likened Biden to North Korea’s dictator Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current ruler.
Kim, who ruled from 1948 until his death aged 82 in 1994, had a baseball-sized growth on the back of his neck, which state media was ordered to hide.
‘Thankfully nothing like that is happening in our country, or ever will,’ said Carlson.
‘If Joe Biden ever developed some profound physical or mental condition that was evident to everybody, journalists would say something.
‘This is not North Korea. We don’t have state media here.
‘If Joe Biden was, say, incapable of completing a full sentence, or mistook his sister for his wife, or suddenly started falling down in public for no reason, The New York Times would report on that and get to the bottom of what was actually happening.
‘That would be a duty in a free country like ours. It’s not like they would cover it up.’
