Tucker Carlson Promotes the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 in Elon Musk Interview

On Monday, erstwhile Fox News big and right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson released an interrogation with billionaire and X proprietor Elon Musk. At the nineteen infinitesimal people of the 108 infinitesimal agelong interview, Carlson takes a interruption to speech astir 1 of the show’s paid partners, the blimpish deliberation vessel Heritage Foundation. Carlson past goes connected to picture thing that sounds suspiciously similar Project 2025, the Foundation’s highly arguable roadmap for a 2nd Trump presidency.

The Heritage Foundation, Carlson says, “pulled unneurotic a conjugation of implicit 100 close leaning groups to make a broad program for a 1 that would see elaborate argumentation proposals connected the astir pressing issues,” and “has besides developed a program to dismantle the heavy authorities that keeps this nonsense going and reclaim this federation from a tiny radical of technocrats that's breached everything.”

Though Carlson does not notation to Project 2025 by name, this connection helium utilized successful the advertisement mirrors the text connected the Project 2025 website, which says the program “brought unneurotic by implicit 100 respected organizations from crossed the blimpish movement, to instrumentality down the Deep State and instrumentality the authorities to the people.”

Carlson besides referenced Project 2025’s unit program, laid retired by erstwhile Trump adjutant John McEntee, meant to guarantee that a 2nd medication is staffed with loyalists.

The Tucker Carlson Network did not respond to a petition for remark astir whether the advertisement was specifically for Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation did not respond to questions astir whether the advertisement describes Project 2025 oregon different initiative.

Trump has made efforts to region himself from Project 2025 aft its unpopularity became evident. The Harris run has honed successful connected the utmost quality of Project 2025, highlighting it successful aggregate ads. After Trump disavowed the Project 2025, Paul Dans, manager of the Heritage Foundation, said it would beryllium winding the task down.

At the time, Trump run spokespeople, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, said, “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would beryllium greatly welcomed and should service arsenic announcement to anyone oregon immoderate radical trying to misrepresent their power with President Trump and his run — it volition not extremity good for you.”

Project 2025 would rotation backmost ineligible protections for women, LGBTQ+ people, and radical minorities; curtail the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) efforts to antagonistic mis- and disinformation; hobble the country’s quality to chopped c emissions and code clime change; and adjacent abolish the Federal Trade Commission.

The peculiar sponsor nexus for Carlson’s amusement leads to a donation leafage that also does not specifically notation Project 2025, but does telephone for enactment to assistance “end amerciable immigration.”

After leaving Fox News, Tucker Carlson founded the Tucker Carlson Network, which hosts his amusement online. Carlson has partnered with X to big his show, though X did not respond to questions astir whether the interrogation with Musk was hosted connected X oregon if the institution was a portion of putting it together.

In the interview, Musk says that helium believes that a Kamala Harris medication would question to unopen down X, and said helium was “all in” connected Trump. On October 5, Musk joined Trump connected the run way successful Butler, Pennsylvania, wherever 3 months ago, the erstwhile president was the people of an assassination attempt. Musk utilized his clip connected signifier astatine the rally to promote Trump supporters to “vote, vote, vote,” claiming that, should Trump lose, 2024 would beryllium the past predetermination successful the United States. Musk repeated this assertion during his interrogation with Carlson.