Tucker Carlson is a former Fox News host famous for his (sometimes controversial) conservative views. He hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023. Lately, he started his own interviews, which he publishes on his social media channels.
He interviewed Andrew Tate in his house in Bucharest and Viktor Orban in Budapest, to name the last ones he met. And right after visiting Romania, Carlson made an awful joke about Transylvania during his speech in Budapest.
Precisely, if you don’t have time to browse the video in the X post above, he stated, addressing the Hungarian audience, that:
You’re not rolling across the border to reclaim territory you lost after the First World War. That could happen, but it’s not happening now anyway. Transylvania is safe in Romanian hands at the moment.
Tucker Carlson on Transylvania during speech in Budapest
Of course, this wouldn’t be the first or the last revisionist comment on Transylvania. But, when it comes from an international TV and internet personality like Carlson, it tends to stick longer to public consciousness.
Either way, this remark made Carlson lose good points in Romania, which is generally closer to Republican views than the American former host could conceive. And this is not something he imagined when he joked about Transylvania while delivering the speech in Hungary’s Capital city.
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Do you have any sociological study to uphold your statement that Romania is generally closer to Republican views? If you mean the rasism that is prevalent in the conservative area you may be right but I doubt that the majority of Romanians are against the welfare state and big government.