Newsmax guest: “Tucker Carlson at this point is not just the most dangerous antisemite in the history of the United States of America, he's the single most dangerous man in America today”
Josh Hammer: “He is cancer. He is pure, unmitigated cancer.”
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From the February 23, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): What do you want to say about what we just saw?
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT (GUEST): Well, look, I think Tucker is getting paid by somebody to divide our movement, to divide MAGA, the GOP, and most importantly, to divide America. Because one thing I know about America, Greg, is America has always been wonderful to the Jewish people, wonderful to Israel. We're a Judeo-Christian nation. There are more important issues to worry about than hammering on Israel and asking for DNA tests to find out if you're a descendant from 3000 years ago. It's the most ridiculous, ludicrous thing I've ever heard. It's the most insulting thing I think I've ever heard in my life. I happen to be Jewish. I've never heard anything so insulting. Do we ask the Irish, the Italians, the Polish? My great friend, my director Petar is Serbian — does he need to prove that he really is Serbian from Serbia? Where have we gotten off track here? Tucker is in another world, a twilight zone, and he's dividing our party, causing dissension and hatred. And if only he grilled white nationalists and Holocaust deniers the same way he grilled my great friend Mike Huckabee, who just sent me a beautiful email last night, hearing a couple of things that I said online about Tucker, and the United States ambassador to Israel sent me a beautiful email thanking me for everything I'm doing to support him and Israel and the United States of America. I'm sickened and flabbergasted by what's coming out of the mouth of Tucker Carlson, who I used to like, by the way, very much. I think him and I were on the same track on almost every issue. But suddenly Israel has become the dividing line. No, Trump was elected over the economy, inflation, and the border, and the war on women. Women being robbed, raped, and murdered by illegals. Send them home, build the wall, deport them all. That's what this election was about. That's what this presidency is about. It isn't about Israel. Ridiculous. It's a weapon of mass distraction.
KELLY: I didn't see the whole interview. That did seem a little bit, whoa, what's going on there? I — you know, look, there are so many podcasts. There's so much content. I cannot keep up. But Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large at Newsweek, please. Your thoughts.
JOSH HAMMER (GUEST): So I do listen to the entire interview. Almost three hours of it. I will pay for my sins for doing so at some future time, actually. Tucker Carlson at this point is not just the most dangerous antisemite in the history of the United States of America, he's the single most dangerous man in America today. Period. Full stop. End of story. He is literally more dangerous than George Soros. He is more dangerous than anyone on the left because he is fundamentally out here, not just to kick American Jews, Christian Zionists, all who take a biblical worldview. He's not just out to kick all of us out of the movement there. I genuinely think that this man is actually out to destroy the United States from within. If you look at all that Tucker Carlson has been doing over the past two years, whether it's his propagandistic videos in the Moscow supermarket and the grocery store, whether it is his fawning interviews with the emir of Qatar, whether it's his puff interview with the president of Iran, his saying that Nicolas Maduro, Nicolas Maduro was his great sage of social conservatism — he repeatedly stands up for America's enemies, repeatedly throws not just America, but our close allies like Israel under the bus. There's a reason that Tucker Carlson's show was being played with dubbed English language and then Persian language subtitles on air in Iran, while the regime was slaughtering tens and tens of thousands of their own people. We've seen this play out in China, Russia, there. He is a walking useful idiot for the enemies Western civilization. It's nothing less than disgusting there. I am wondering when he will pay the price for it. When will he be booted out from the White House? When will the president, vice president, everyone just say you are no longer welcome in the corridors of power, there. He needs to be stopped speaking at Turning Point USA, all these conferences there. He is cancer. He is pure, unmitigated cancer.