Tucker Carlson has shared a manifesto outlining the 10 characteristics that he believes America should have, about a month after he floated the idea of launching a new political party.
Carlson, a former Trump loyalist, said in June that he was turning his back on the Republican Party. Soon after those remarks, Carlson told the Columbia Journalism Review that he was “going to help build a third party,” adding that “there should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country.” In a livestream on Wednesday, the conservative commentator didn’t explicitly announce a new party, but he shared 10 “goals” for America.
“We thought it’d be useful just to set down the goals of whatever comes next,” Carlson said. “Hopefully, it’s better than what we have. But we know it’ll be different from what we have because what we have literally doesn’t work.”
The livestream comes after Carlson over the weekend met with a number of other right-wing figures who have recently—and vocally—broken with Trump and the Republican Party. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress in January after a very public falling out with the President, shared a photo of the gathering on X.
“We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” Greene said in her post. “But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun.”
Here’s what Carlson laid out in his manifesto, and what experts think about the likelihood of a potential new third party succeeding in U.S. elections.
“The very first thing America should be,” Carlson said, “is fair.”
He next asserted in his second point that America needs to be “sovereign, ”meaning “free from outside influence—the right to make decisions on your nation’s behalf or your own behalf without being told what to do,” he said.
“When your nation is not sovereign, of course it leads to things like the Iran war, which you do under bribery or threat or both by Israel, which is exactly what happened,” Carlson alleged.
Carlson has publicly criticized President Donald Trump over the decision to join Israel in launching the military strikes against Iran that started the war. Trump has denied that Israel pressured the U.S. into the conflict.
In his livestream on Wednesday, Carlson went on to say that the third thing the U.S. should be is “productive,” by which he said he meant that the country should reinvest in sectors like farming, rather than in surveillance systems and weapons.
The fourth trait he said the country should have was “beautiful;” he criticized graffiti, public drug use, and violent crime.
The fifth characteristic was “healthy;” he applauded Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s for prioritizing “better food” for the country.
The sixth he discussed was “honest;” he argued that government officials who lie to the public should face penalties.
The seventh characteristic that Carlson laid out was “optimistic;” he urged citizens to have more children.