THE NUMBERS ARE IN: Tucker’s Interview with Russian President Putin Has Received More Views Than a SUPER BOWL!

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin broke the internet.

After over 48 hours, the interview has garnered well over 178 million views as of Saturday morning.

This from 100percentfedup.com.

Take a look:

In comparison, the Super Bowl only garners around 115 million:

So much for Hillary calling Tucker a “useful idiot.” Or perhaps she’s trying to demean Tucker because he has long been a harsh critic of U.S. aid to Ukraine. Or might Hillary be afraid information concerning her scandalous uranium deal will be revealed?

Filmmaker Mike Cernovich worded the world’s eagerness to watch Tucker’s interview with Putin perfectly:

This is what it must have felt like in the radio era. Everyone stopped life, sat down to listen. The world’s attention is on one subject.

Some Russians are calling for February 9th to be called Tucker Carlson Day.

Per Wired:

Russians have reacted ecstatically online to the two-hour interview between former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson and Russian president Vladimir Putin, hailing it as a historic, internet-breaking moment that will change the world. Many are now even calling the former Fox News presenter a national hero: Some have called for February 9 to be renamed as ‘Tucker Carlson Day’ while others posted pictures of Carlson wearing a Russian ushanka hat and claimed Carlson wore a tie during the interview bearing colors that closely resemble the colors and pattern of Saint George’s ribbon, a Russian military symbol.

The much-hyped interview ran for more than two hours on Tucker Carlson’s new streaming platform and X, and saw Putin spending a huge amount of time laying out a revisionist history of Russia and the Ukraine in a bid to justify Russia’s invasion. Carlson spent most of the interview listening, and rarely interjected to question Putin’s narrative. He also failed to push the Russian leader on his country’s widely reported war crimes in Ukraine.

The interview marks Carlson’s further embrace of the far-right and conspiracy world since departing Fox News last year, and comes on the back of Russia ratcheting up its interference operations ahead of the 2024 elections. This week, WIRED reported on a coordinated Russian disinformation campaign where state media, influencers, bots, and others claimed the Texas border crisis was pushing the U.S. toward civil war. By providing Putin with direct access to millions in the U.S. and around the world.

Now, in short, the five things the world learned from Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin:

 1. Putin has not abandoned his maximalist goals to win the war and keep Ukraine in Russia’s sphere of influence.

Carlson, expressing his anxiety that there is a risk the war “brings the entire world into conflict” that results in “some nuclear launch,” asked Putin if he would try to broker an end to the war with Joe Biden.

Putin replied:

What’s there to work out? If you really want to stop fighting, you need to stop supplying weapons. It will be over within a few weeks.

He stated:

As the Americans requested, Yanukovych did use neither the armed forces nor the police. Yet the armed opposition committed a coup in Kiev. … It was they who started the war in 2014. Our goal is to stop this war. And we did not start this war in 2022. This is an attempt to stop it.

 3. Russia is growing closer to and more reliant on China.

Putin told Carlson:

The West is afraid of [a] strong China more than it fears a strong Russia because Russia has 150 million people and China has 1.5 billion population.

And its economy is growing by leaps and bounds, or 5% a year. It used to be even more, but that’s enough for China. … China’s potential is enormous.

 4. Putin wants Western economic ties—he wants to get back to business with the West, most specifically through the resumption of natural gas sales to Germany.

He said:

After all, it is not only about Nord Stream One, which was blow[n] up, and the Nord Stream Two was damaged, but one pipe is safe and sound, and gas can be supplied to Europe through it. But Germany does not open it. We are ready. Please.

Putin told Carlson:

German leadership is guided by the interests of the collective West rather than its national interests. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the logic of their action or inaction.

NOTE: Russia has accused the United States of destroying the Nord Stream pipelines. Other European officials surmised in the first days after the operation that Russia had attacked its own dormant pipelines to persuade Western European authorities that the Baltic Pipe and other undersea infrastructure would not be safe. And the Washington Post reported in November that Ukrainian officials orchestrated the attack.

 5. Hostage diplomacy is a live prospect—Carlson asked Putin to allow him to bring Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich back to the United States, but Putin refused.

Putin said:

I do not rule out that the person you refer to, Mr. Gershkovich, may return to his motherland. We are ready to talk.

Moreover, the talks are underway and there have been many successful examples of these talks crowned with success. Probably this is going to be crowned with success as well. But we have to come to an agreement.

Putin explained:

He’s not just a journalist. He’s a journalist who is secretly getting confidential information.

NOTE: Gershkovich is a U.S. journalist assigned to the Moscow bureau of the Wall Street Journal. He was arrested in March 2023 on espionage charges.

God speed to Tucker Carlson.