{"id":2514472,"date":"2025-11-25T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-breaks-with-trump-on-whether-carlson-should-have-given-fuentes-a-platform-openly-racist\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:15:15","slug":"johnson-breaks-with-trump-on-whether-carlson-should-have-given-fuentes-a-platform-openly-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-breaks-with-trump-on-whether-carlson-should-have-given-fuentes-a-platform-openly-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson breaks with Trump on whether Carlson should have given Fuentes a platform: &#8216;Openly racist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnson-breaks-with-trump-on-whether-carlson-should-have-given-fuentes-a-platform-openly-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2514472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly criticized Tucker Carlson&#8217;s decision to interview Nick Fuentes, calling it a &#8220;big mistake&#8221; and distancing himself from former President Donald Trump&#8217;s defense of the interview. Fuentes is known for his openly racist, antisemitic, and violent rhetoric, which Johnson described as &#8220;vile&#8221; and unacceptable to amplify. Johnson, a strong pro-Israel conservative, emphasized that giving Fuentes a platform is dangerous and contributes to division within the conservative movement. The interview has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carlee-russells-bf-urges-public-to-stop-bullying-amid-suspicious-claims-think-about-her-mental-health\/\" title=\"Carlee Russell\u2019s BF Urges Public To Stop \u2018Bullying\u2019 Amid Suspicious Claims: \u2018Think About Her Mental Health\u2019\">caused significant controversy<\/a> among Republican leaders, wiht some like Senator Ted Cruz breaking with Carlson. Meanwhile, others in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-modernity-and-its-discontents\/\" title=\"Liberal Modernity and Its Discontents\">conservative circles<\/a>, including Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pelosi-allowed-recently-covid-positive-rep-onto-house-floor-to-vote-for-her\/\" title=\"Report: Pelosi allowed recently COVID-positive rep. onto ... to vote for her\">faced backlash<\/a> for suggesting fuentes should not be canceled despite condemning his views. Johnson&#8217;s stance highlights a sharp split in the right-wing coalition over how to handle extremist figures within the movement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Johnson breaks with Trump on whether Carlson should have given Fuentes a platform: &lsquo;Openly racist&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2404677\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ripped <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tucker-carlson\/\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>&lsquo;s interview with Nick Fuentes on Tuesday morning as a &ldquo;big mistake,&rdquo; breaking with President Donald Trump&rsquo;s take on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson&rsquo;s decision to interview Feuntes, a 27-year-old streamer who regularly criticizes people on the basis of race, religion, and ethnicity, sent shockwaves through the conservative coalition this fall, as the fallout divided<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3871409\/heritage-foundation-president-kevin-roberts-abhors-nick-fuentes-views-plenty-to-condemn\/\"> party leaders<\/a>. Trump has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3891013\/trump-treading-water-epstein-economy-maga-coalition-splinters\/\">backed Carlson<\/a> during the controversy, telling White House reporters, &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t tell him who to interview.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3897963\/house-members-new-boosted-security-funds-mobile-duress-system\/\">House members see boosted security funds and new mobile duress system<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3897724\/mtg-departure-rexposes-underlying-issues-congress\/\">MTG departure removes short-term headache for Johnson, but exposes underlying problems plaguing Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3897706\/russia-hawks-trump-ukraine-talks\/\">Frustrated Russia hawks wade into Trump Ukraine talks: &lsquo;Save him from himself&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Johnson spoke against Carlson&rsquo;s decision to platform Feuntes in an interview with the<em> Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I spoke briefly with Tucker about that, and I think it&rsquo;s a responsibility. He has a lot of listeners, and I think giving&nbsp;Nick Fuentes&nbsp;that platform is a big mistake,&rdquo; Johnson <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/the-movement\/5621034-mike-johnson-carlson-fuentes-antisemitism-free-speech\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, a staunchly pro-Israel conservative, said he wasn&rsquo;t very familiar with Fuentes prior to the interview, but after listening to a compilation of the streamer&rsquo;s opinions, he referred to the clips as &ldquo;vile, terrible stuff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just antisemitic, it&rsquo;s openly racist, it&rsquo;s violent &mdash; things you can&rsquo;t even repeat on the House floor,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;We should not be giving a platform to amplify those views. And I think that&rsquo;s important for us to say.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson acknowledged that he and Carlson also have &ldquo;different views on Israel,&rdquo; and that they have talked about their differences before. Carlson has publicly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the United States&rsquo;s involvement in Israeli conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he didn&rsquo;t think Carlson agreed with his take that the Fuentes interview was a &ldquo;big mistake.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m only responsible for my own behavior, not everybody else,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not the one that gives out the invitations to the conferences. But I will say that I think it&rsquo;s a dangerous trend to give a platform to people who are just openly and unrepentantly antisemitic and engaging in all this hateful, racist stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The Carlson-Fuentes interview has caused a splinter in the Right, as pro-Israel conservatives such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have split entirely with Carlson over the move.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >received significant backlash<\/a> for saying that although he &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3871409\/heritage-foundation-president-kevin-roberts-abhors-nick-fuentes-views-plenty-to-condemn\/\">abhors<\/a>&rdquo; Fuentes&rsquo;s views, he should not be canceled.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3889144\/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts-carlson-fuentes\/\">HERITAGE BOARD MEMBER ROBERT GEORGE JOINS EXODUS LEAVING FOUNDATION OVER FUENTES DEFENSE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination, conservative commentator Dinesh D&rsquo;Souza shared a text conversation with Fuentes after D&rsquo;Souza gave Fuentes a larger platform by debating him.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk shared a similar sentiment to Johnson, suggesting it was a big mistake to amplify Fuentes&rsquo;s views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson opposes Trump, calls Carlson&#8217;s Fuentes interview a mistake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2514474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317070335210.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[51677,66590,4162,50526,3634],"class_list":["post-2514472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-carlson-2","tag-fuentes","tag-johnson","tag-racism-2","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317070335210.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514476,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514472\/revisions\/2514476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}