- Tucker Carlson said Vladimir Putin was “a couple hours late” for their Kremlin interview this week.
- Making people wait is a power move often used by the Russian president.
- Putin launched into a lengthy revisionist history of Russia that Carlson said “annoyed” him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled a power move on Tucker Carlson that set the stage for the former Fox News host getting steamrolled.
In a post-interview reaction clip, Carlson said Putin was “a couple hours late” for his two-hour interview with the Russian leader in the Kremlin this week.
Making people wait is a tactic Putin has regularly used as a power play to show dominance over his guests, including world leaders.
Putin had former President Donald Trump wait for an hour before a summit in Helsinki in 2018.
He was about 50 minutes behind schedule for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2015, Reuters reported.
And he also held German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting for more than four hours at a private lunch in 2014, Radio Free Europe reported.
I suspect Putin got what we wanted out of that interview, so Carlson is probably safe saying he was “annoyed”. Still he should be careful to avoid stairs, upper story windows, planes, and ingesting anything he didn’t make himself for the next few years to be on the safe side.
Are you kidding? On the contrary, Carlson has been proven to be the perfect puppet, he let Putin show up and say whatever the fuck he wanted completely unchecked. Carlson’s now on Putin’s Christmas list. This isn’t the last we’re going to hear of their friendship.
Yes, yes I was kidding, but also pointing out the dangers of getting too chummy with a dictator. Their moods can be fickle and their friends can quickly become enemies or liabilities.
Certain industries attract certain kinds of people. When I used to deal with them, and had someone green with me, I would tell him it’s like prison rules but worse. Don’t talk to them, don’t let them do you a favor, try not to take a break until we leave, and don’t make eye contact. Antisocial personality disorder is not a super power.