The Ben Shapiro Show - June 23, 2026


Tucker Carlson Publicly Quits the Republican Party


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Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican Party. Good riddance. Ben Shapiro talks about the Iran deal, immigration reform, and why it's time to deport all illegal immigrants from the United States.

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00:00:00.000 So Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican party.
00:00:04.000 Aww.
00:00:05.000 Same as Nick Fuentes, same as Candace Owens, same as Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:00:08.000 For a long time, I've been talking about ideological borders for conservatives because words have meanings and political movements must have borders. 0.99
00:00:17.000 Well, it turns out the illegal immigrant Republicans are self-deporting, which is a good thing because what we don't need here are people who won't assimilate to our culture or our values and who would like our enemies to win. 0.99
00:00:29.000 So good riddance. 0.99
00:00:30.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.
00:00:39.000 So, a lot of people have noticed that I've been very critical of the vice president and the way that he is negotiating with Iran.
00:00:45.000 And we'll get to that much later in the show.
00:00:46.000 But recently, he was on Megyn Kelly's show in order to trot out his defense of the Iran deal.
00:00:52.000 And he said something that was kind of interesting, the vice president.
00:00:55.000 He said that even if you disagree with the administration, you should stay in the coalition, even if you disagree, because you should vote Republican and not Democrat, because the alternative is to put the Democrats in power.
00:01:07.000 And he was kind of right.
00:01:09.000 Here's what the vice president had to say.
00:01:12.000 You disagree with the president on this particular policy, that doesn't mean you can give up on the entire enterprise.
00:01:18.000 Yeah, no, I agree with that.
00:01:20.000 And the reason why neocons are so much more effective in politics than the people on the other side in our coalition is because they play the game.
00:01:31.000 They get disappointed, they make their criticisms, and they go back and they live to fight another day.
00:01:36.000 Right now, right now, we need everybody who recognizes that this is a good deal for the American people and that we don't want.
00:01:44.000 Like John Podowitz is saying, hundreds of thousands of ground troops in Iran, make your voice heard.
00:01:49.000 This is where you've got to participate in the process.
00:01:51.000 Disagree when you disagree, agree when you agree.
00:01:54.000 But I don't like this idea of the president did something I didn't like, so I'm out.
00:02:00.000 I think it's a very immature way to approach the political process.
00:02:02.000 I agree with that.
00:02:03.000 And it's the way to ensure that your enemies always win.
00:02:06.000 I've been saying the same because a lot of people have been saying that they feel blackmailed by the whole experience, like I'm just out.
00:02:12.000 And I have been trying to make the point that you can't do that, right?
00:02:15.000 You've got to stay.
00:02:18.000 Well, I mean, she kind of did say that recently that she wanted to leave.
00:02:23.000 Okay.
00:02:23.000 But put aside all of the nonsense that the vice president is peddling there about how we really need a bunch of people who love the Iran deal to stay in because otherwise the neocons are going to win and all the rest of it.
00:02:33.000 Here's the thing I strenuously disagree with the administration's policy on Iran right now.
00:02:38.000 I'm not leaving because the alternative would be for the Democrats to win.
00:02:41.000 But the whole point of what so many people on the horseshoe right are doing, the woke right, what they are doing right now is they are basically attempting to destroy the Republican Party from within.
00:02:53.000 To throw their support to somebody else in order to get the Republican Party to run after them, to run after them screaming.
00:03:01.000 Well, you know, I'm okay with people who are rabidly anti American leaving the party.
00:03:07.000 I don't think we need them here.
00:03:09.000 I think that if you came into the Republican Party because you're a refugee from your home party or from your home ideology, and we brought you in here as a kindness, and then you proceeded to take advantage of our system, you proceeded to believe that we were going to change all of our principles for you. 1.00
00:03:27.000 You came in illegally. 1.00
00:03:28.000 It's time for you to self deport.
00:03:29.000 Well, Tucker Carlson is now self deporting from the Republican Party.
00:03:33.000 He's very upset with the administration because the administration is not pro Russia or pro Iran enough for him.
00:03:40.000 And so yesterday he announced on the can't be censored pod.
00:03:44.000 I have to admit, I find it somewhat hilarious that there are podcasts that claim that they are, quote unquote, being censored while having sizable audiences.
00:03:54.000 People not liking your podcast doesn't mean you're being censored.
00:03:56.000 In any case, Tucker Carlson.
00:03:59.000 Said that he no longer supports the Republican Party.
00:04:01.000 He can't because it's just too immoral.
00:04:03.000 A moral Republican Party would have sided with Hezbollah, with Iran, and with the Russians.
00:04:09.000 He just can't be part of it anymore.
00:04:10.000 Well, don't let the door hit you on the way out, Tucker.
00:04:15.000 I would not support the Republican Party.
00:04:17.000 There's no chance I would support the Republican Party.
00:04:19.000 I'm not going to support the Democratic Party.
00:04:20.000 I don't know what I'm going to do.
00:04:22.000 But at this point, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States? 0.92
00:04:30.000 That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens.
00:04:33.000 Like, that's, you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that. 0.97
00:04:38.000 And I'm not going to.
00:04:38.000 And I think I voted Republican my entire life.
00:04:42.000 I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC.
00:04:45.000 I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican party.
00:04:51.000 I mean, very consistent defender, but there's no defending this because it's immoral.
00:04:55.000 And it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation.
00:05:06.000 And they're not doing that.
00:05:07.000 So no, I'm out.
00:05:08.000 And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out.
00:05:12.000 So, I mean, first of all, Tucker says he's been a Republican for 35 years.
00:05:15.000 That's weird because he was a registered Democrat from 2006 to 2020.
00:05:19.000 He said he did that so he could vote for the Democrats in primaries and manipulate the system, except that Washington, D.C., which is where he was living, has a closed primary system.
00:05:28.000 So, I don't know.
00:05:30.000 I don't know, man.
00:05:30.000 I have some questions.
00:05:32.000 And as Michael Knowles, who is celebrating his 2000th episode today, by the way, you should go listen to his show.
00:05:38.000 Michael Knowles is making this point on his show.
00:05:41.000 The Republican Party has gotten more conservative in a wide variety of ways and more big government in a wide variety of other ways, actually, over time.
00:05:50.000 And when it comes to America's foreign policy, America has grown less interventionist over time.
00:05:56.000 So it's kind of strange that now is the moment that Tucker picks, but I guess that speaks to his principles and not really to the Republican Party.
00:06:02.000 But here's the thing about Tucker Carlson.
00:06:04.000 Tucker Carlson's political views have moved all over the map.
00:06:07.000 If you watch Tucker Carlson in 1999, he's condemning Tucker Carlson in 2026.
00:06:11.000 If you watch Tucker Carlson in 2004, 2005, he is just a normie Republican.
00:06:16.000 And if you watch Tucker Carlson today, he's a wild eyed conspiracy theorist with a lot of thoughts about the Jews.
00:06:21.000 So I'm pretty sure that it's not about the Republican Party moving away from Tucker Carlson.
00:06:25.000 I'm pretty sure it's about Tucker Carlson moving away from the Republican Party.
00:06:29.000 Again, he has spent the last few months since Charlie Kirk's murder fulminating over whether, in fact, the nefarious Jews were involved, the Hummus eaters, and having on every anti Semite he can find on his program, and theorizing that the President of the United States is run by Israel.
00:06:46.000 And also suggesting, of course, that some of the world's most extraordinary leftists, like Graham Plattner and Zoram Amdani, are all totally fine.
00:06:52.000 So I'm not sure where the space is for you inside the Republican Party.
00:06:56.000 So I guess I'm glad that he is finally just giving up the ghost rather than pretending that the entire Republican Party must move over to his side.
00:07:03.000 But understand tactically what he's doing.
00:07:05.000 Tactically, what Tucker Carlson is attempting to do is basically leverage the Republican Party into following him.
00:07:10.000 Instead of trying to convince within the tent, instead of trying to make his case, what he's essentially threatening to do is overturn the apple cart and then walk out the door.
00:07:19.000 And hope that, say, Vice President JD Vance, with whom he is personally close, will come back in with Tucker arm in arm and then cram down Tucker's views on the rest of the party.
00:07:28.000 This is how a splinter faction works.
00:07:29.000 That's the actual strategic thing he is doing.
00:07:32.000 It's the same thing Nick Fuentes is doing.
00:07:33.000 It's the same thing Candace Owens is doing.
00:07:35.000 It's the same thing that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey are doing right now.
00:07:38.000 So it's not a gigantic shock. 0.99
00:07:40.000 And it's not really tactically stupid what Tucker is doing. 0.87
00:07:43.000 It does, however, demonstrate that if the party has any principles at all, there may be certain principles that alienate certain people. 0.95
00:07:50.000 And that's okay.
00:07:51.000 That's good.
00:07:52.000 See, a party is supposed to be a receptacle for votes.
00:07:55.000 It is not supposed to change its fundamental principles in pursuit of those votes.
00:07:59.000 And if people wish to leave because they don't like the fundamental principles of that party, well, then it's a free country and they can.
00:08:05.000 We should also point out that if the party does poorly in the midterms, it's very difficult to blame the people who voted for the party rather than the people who walked out the door because the party wasn't pro Iran or pro Russia or weak enough with regard to foreign policy.
00:08:19.000 Again, the Republican Party has traditionally been pretty anti Iran and anti Russia.
00:08:24.000 It's Tucker Carlson who's changed his principles.
00:08:26.000 Listen, if the Republican Party will not support Vladimir Putin's aspirations in Ukraine, and if the Republican Party will not sing the glories of Russian bread and Russian subways and Russian hamburgers, if the Republican Party will not bend over for Qatar completely, if the Republican Party refuses to just cheer on the Iranians as they foster terrorism throughout the region, what are we even doing here? 0.92
00:08:47.000 Again, I'm perfectly fine with illegal immigrant Republicans self deporting. 0.97
00:08:51.000 This is good. 1.00
00:08:52.000 I mean, on the same podcast, Tucker Carlson was literally saying, That Charlie Kirk was murdered by the Jews. 0.79
00:08:58.000 That is what he was saying.
00:08:59.000 Hey, here we go.
00:09:00.000 Even TPUSA, which again, TPUSA has been very warm to Tucker.
00:09:04.000 TPUSA has invited him very prominently to a wide variety of their events.
00:09:09.000 They had him host alongside JD Vance, Charlie Kirk's show the week after Charlie's death.
00:09:15.000 Here is Tucker trying to get the actual alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk off the hook so that he can rip on Israel or the Jews or something.
00:09:23.000 Charlie Kirk was murdered.
00:09:24.000 Yeah.
00:09:25.000 And he was not murdered for his opinions on transgenderism. 0.53
00:09:30.000 Obviously, he was, I believe, and most people who knew him well, as I did and was friends with him, as I was, believe he was most likely murdered for his evolving views on Israel. 0.90
00:09:41.000 So I get it.
00:09:43.000 A lot's at stake.
00:09:44.000 The world is at stake.
00:09:45.000 But from my perspective, I have a duty to say what I think is true.
00:09:49.000 I'm often wrong.
00:09:50.000 And I always say that because it's a fact.
00:09:52.000 I have been wrong a lot and I may be wrong now, but I am sincere.
00:09:56.000 I'm saying what I believe is true and I'm going to continue doing that no matter what.
00:10:00.000 Well, no matter, no matter, no matter what comes, he will say crazy things.
00:10:03.000 By the way, Blake Neff over at TPUSA points out that that's not true and that the people who are closest with Charlie full on believe that Charlie was murdered by the trans loving gay man because that's what all the evidence points to.
00:10:17.000 But Tucker's out and so is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:10:20.000 Oh no.
00:10:21.000 Oh no.
00:10:22.000 She's out.
00:10:23.000 Well, Tucker is not the only one who's done supporting the Republican party.
00:10:26.000 There is a lot of us.
00:10:26.000 There are a lot of us.
00:10:27.000 I shouldn't correct her grammar.
00:10:28.000 There is a lot of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country.
00:10:34.000 That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either, but we are done with the America last Republican Party.
00:10:39.000 So I would just like to point out if the Republicans don't do well in the midterms, it might have something to do with all of these erstwhile pseudo Republicans who are leaving.
00:10:49.000 Maybe it has to do with that.
00:10:50.000 And again, Megyn Kelly telling JD Vance how she's never believed that she should just leave because she's upset over what the Republicans are doing.
00:10:56.000 Literally two weeks ago, she was with Sean Ryan talking about forming a horseshoe coalition with Anna Kasparian, a lady who literally tweeted this week in support of terrorism.
00:11:08.000 The line between left and right is merging.
00:11:11.000 You know, like there's something rising out of the middle of that that is.
00:11:16.000 You're talking about Anna Kasparian.
00:11:18.000 Yeah, I love her.
00:11:19.000 It's awesome.
00:11:20.000 I love her.
00:11:21.000 I do too.
00:11:22.000 She's awesome.
00:11:23.000 People think of me as a Republican, but I haven't been a Republican in over 20 years.
00:11:27.000 I was a registered Democrat when I was fresh out of school, and then I was a registered Republican for a few years when I was like right around when I joined Fox News.
00:11:37.000 And then I quickly realized, like, I don't want to wear either of these team jerseys.
00:11:41.000 I'm against both of these guys.
00:11:44.000 Oh, she's against both these guys.
00:11:45.000 She doesn't wear a team shirt. 0.99
00:11:46.000 She's against both of these guys.
00:11:47.000 Now, again, far be it for me to suggest that the party should trump principle.
00:11:52.000 It shouldn't.
00:11:53.000 But the point is that the Republican Party has certain principles.
00:11:56.000 If you do not accord with those centralizing principles, like, for example, peace through strength, then probably you shouldn't be here.
00:12:04.000 That's okay.
00:12:05.000 You can leave.
00:12:06.000 But perhaps you also should not be the lodestar of a new Republican Party.
00:12:11.000 Because building around the people who are going to leave over the fact that the administration bombed Iran and are so unhappy that even when JD Vance, a man who many of them are deeply personally and politically allied with, is running the show with regard to Iran policy, and they're still leaving, I mean, okay, I suppose you can do that.
00:12:31.000 I'm just going to point out that self deportation is, in fact, a fine policy when it comes to people who joined up for the wrong reasons in the first place.
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00:14:01.000 Well, to understand what's happening there, there are a bunch of people who are very pro America, but they seem to be coming from abroad more often these days.
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00:14:24.000 Lyndon, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:14:26.000 Appreciate it.
00:14:28.000 Of course.
00:14:28.000 Look, my shirt says happy here in America.
00:14:32.000 What a concept.
00:14:35.000 I know, right?
00:14:36.000 Very, very difficult stuff.
00:14:37.000 But apparently, it is difficult for some people.
00:14:39.000 A lot of people are very upset with the United States these days.
00:14:42.000 But here, for example, we had a Daily Wire video that we did that showed that Americans are much more down on the USA than the Europeans who are visiting America, who it turns out really, really like it here.
00:14:51.000 So I wanted to get your reaction to this video.
00:14:55.000 I thighs every now and then I fall apart So honestly,
00:15:19.000 it reminds me when I was like 15 years old, I went to Europe for the first time.
00:15:26.000 And I remember I was thinking, get me back to America where I can get an O'Charlie's yeast roll with some hot butter and some silverware and ice in my water.
00:15:35.000 It was just the simple things in life.
00:15:37.000 And that's what we see with these World Cup fans coming over to America.
00:15:42.000 They're enjoying the simple things in life like Waffle House.
00:15:45.000 When's the last time you went to Waffle House?
00:15:47.000 And ordered the all star special and thought about how lucky you were to be sitting there cutting open that nice warm waffle, not a Belgium waffle that can sometimes not be, you know, as savory as a Waffle House waffle.
00:16:03.000 I love that video.
00:16:04.000 The social team nailed it at the Daily Wire and it makes you laugh out loud because it's true.
00:16:11.000 It's true.
00:16:13.000 It absolutely is true.
00:16:14.000 You've seen all of these Europeans who are coming over here and a lot of them have gone viral going around the United States just.
00:16:20.000 Shocked at, for example, the fact that we have houses here, like not just apartments, like really, really nice houses in places like, you know, romantic places like Tallahassee. 0.97
00:16:28.000 Seriously, you're seeing videos of people driving through Tallahassee, like, look at this amazing place, Tallahassee.
00:16:32.000 And all of us over here are like, yeah, I mean, it's Tallahassee.
00:16:35.000 So like cool and everything, I suppose.
00:16:37.000 But that's the thing.
00:16:39.000 Like America, we don't even appreciate what we have.
00:16:41.000 If you ever visit Europe during the summer, there's a reason that every single summer, tens of thousands of people die in heat waves in Europe because they don't use air conditioning.
00:16:49.000 A huge percentage.
00:16:50.000 Of their housing is built without air conditioning.
00:16:52.000 Here, you're arguing with your spouse about whether the air conditioning should be at 70 or 68 because America is amazing.
00:17:00.000 Yeah, my husband and I, we go 67 during the summer, just so you know.
00:17:04.000 So we go way above here.
00:17:07.000 We couldn't do Europe.
00:17:08.000 But yeah, to your point, Ben, I mean, you had Freddie, who I think at this point, he's the most viral tourist right now, got the invite to the White House.
00:17:16.000 He's on his way to Boston right now to watch Germany play.
00:17:20.000 And he started his trip off.
00:17:21.000 In my neck of the woods down in Georgia and Alabama, went to my alma mater, Auburn, and he was just freaking out about the Chattahoochee River, like what Alan Jackson sings about.
00:17:33.000 And I'm like, yeah, I got tubed down the Chattahoochee, big whoop.
00:17:36.000 And he's like, this is the best thing ever.
00:17:39.000 He went to Bucky's.
00:17:40.000 And I get annoyed because my family is a we must stop at Bucky's family.
00:17:46.000 And I'm like, can we just get there?
00:17:47.000 But now I'm like, you know what?
00:17:48.000 No, I'm going to always go in Bucky's and enjoy it because.
00:17:52.000 They don't have that anywhere else but America.
00:17:54.000 And Freddie loved it.
00:17:55.000 He's just done the things that we get to do every day.
00:17:58.000 And he's taken so much pride in it.
00:18:00.000 And to your point, I was out in California last week in Santa Barbara looking around at the mountains and the beach and the cliffs and all that.
00:18:08.000 And I was like, wow, this feels like we're in a different country, not for the reasons we joke about with the Daily Wire, but just like the scenic reasons.
00:18:15.000 Like it looks so different than Tennessee.
00:18:18.000 And how lucky are we to have a country this big with so much landmarks and diversity?
00:18:24.000 You can go to the beach.
00:18:25.000 The mountains, the Grand Canyon.
00:18:27.000 I mean, it is such a beautiful country.
00:18:30.000 We're so blessed to live here coming up on 250 years.
00:18:34.000 And this has been the biggest wake up call to the American haters.
00:18:39.000 Like, yeah, we joke all the time oh, if you hate us so bad, then leave.
00:18:44.000 LOL, eat your words because all these places you want to go, they want to live here and be here with us.
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00:19:55.000 So apparently, there was controversy that broke out over American style halftime shows that are now being implemented in the middle of the World Cup, which, again, like this is great.
00:20:04.000 America putting our stamp on the World Cup by basically being like, we're just going to have a musical act in the middle of the soccer match.
00:20:09.000 It's pretty wonderful.
00:20:10.000 But what's the controversy?
00:20:12.000 I mean, it's Madonna, it's Shakira, and it's BTS.
00:20:12.000 Okay.
00:20:15.000 So you have Madonna representing, you know, America.
00:20:17.000 You have Shakira, which I mean, I'm going to defend the halftime show and Shakira.
00:20:22.000 Not that I'm even, you know, a Shakira fan.
00:20:24.000 I don't think I've listened to her since like now.
00:20:27.000 That's what I call music five, maybe.
00:20:30.000 But you can't have a World Cup concert and not invite Shakira.
00:20:35.000 I mean, to me, she's a walking soccer ball in my mind.
00:20:38.000 So of course she's included.
00:20:40.000 I think people are upset, and I'm pretty sure there's some countries not airing the halftime show because they want to keep it very traditional.
00:20:46.000 The soccer, the football, and they want to analyze the game.
00:20:50.000 But of course, we have the Super Bowl.
00:20:52.000 Super Bowl halftime show is what it's supposed to be, you know, the biggest honor.
00:20:56.000 It's supposed to be family friendly, you know, sometimes it's not, but it's supposed to be this big celebration, and they're trying to put their little spin on it.
00:21:02.000 And then you have BTS, which is K pop.
00:21:05.000 Ben, are you a K pop fan?
00:21:08.000 I mean, I'm sure that you're going to be shocked to learn I am not.
00:21:14.000 I'm sure you're going to be shocked to learn that I'm not either.
00:21:17.000 But they're like the best.
00:21:20.000 The big thing.
00:21:20.000 I'll have to get all my younger cousins in their 20s to tell me about it.
00:21:24.000 But yeah, that's the controversy.
00:21:25.000 But I think what they're doing, they're having different cultures come in. 0.96
00:21:28.000 You know, they're having the K pop, the that side of it.
00:21:31.000 Of course, Shakira and Madonna.
00:21:33.000 You know what?
00:21:34.000 Go watch someone's analytics on X during the halftime show if you want to see that soccer stuff.
00:21:40.000 I mean, I probably will be doing that because that's how I feel like I know what I'm talking about when I, you know, cheer for America and act like I've been watching Team USA play soccer every single day for the last four years.
00:21:52.000 Well, I do think that. 0.96
00:21:54.000 President Trump should definitely authorize a Blue Angels and B2 flyover of every single World Cup game, just to remind everybody that we could theoretically hit them at pretty much any time. 0.91
00:22:03.000 That America, not only do we build things bigger and better here, but also our military is just the best. 0.60
00:22:09.000 Well, Lyndon Blake, really appreciate the time and the insight.
00:22:12.000 And, you know, the pick me up, because there's so many things to be down about these days.
00:22:16.000 Everybody's very upset about a reflecting pool.
00:22:18.000 But it's good to remind people that actually America is kind of awesome.
00:22:22.000 The reflecting pool thing is, oh my gosh.
00:22:25.000 Our Uber driver in California, I've never, I'm going to, you may have to cut this.
00:22:29.000 I've never ridden with an Uber driver that came off as high as this guy.
00:22:33.000 I was like, oh my gosh.
00:22:36.000 The only thing he cared about was the reflecting pool.
00:22:39.000 And we were like, wow, wow, it's made it out this far.
00:22:42.000 And this is the one thing you care about, sir.
00:22:45.000 That's a lot.
00:22:47.000 Well, as I've been saying, that is the best, I think, the best evidence that America is amazing is that random Uber drivers are very, very worried about a pool they will never visit 1,000 or 2,000 miles away.
00:22:57.000 That is, If that's your chief issue in life, that means you have no real other problems in your life because, I mean, really, come on.
00:23:02.000 Well, Lyndon Blake, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:23:04.000 Appreciate it.
00:23:05.000 See you later, Ben.
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