Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson apologized to his audience in early April 2024 for misleading them about his past support for Donald Trump. "We'll be tormented by it for a long time – I will be. And I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that's all I'll say," Carlson said in a podcast episode.

Carlson tied the apology to his opposition to Trump's support for Israel and the war against Iran that began in late February. In the same podcast episode, he described Trump's language on Iran as "vile on every level."

Carlson also implicated himself and other Trump supporters. "You and I and everyone else who supported him – you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him – I mean, we're implicated in this for sure," he said. He added, "In very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now."

Carlson's public stance on Trump has shifted over more than two decades. In 1999, he described Trump as "the single most repulsive person on the planet." Before the 2016 election, he publicly urged taking Trump seriously, and while working as a Fox News contributor during that campaign he said Trump had "strange charisma." By 2020, he publicly praised Trump's "America first" agenda and repeated Trump's claim that the election was "rigged" in favor of Joe Biden. In a 2021 text to a colleague disclosed in court filings, he wrote, "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait."

Five days before the 2024 election, Carlson campaigned with Trump in Arizona. He was fired from Fox News in 2023 soon after the network settled its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million, and he subsequently launched his own media company.