Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson repeatedly pressured transphobic British media figure Piers Morgan to say “f**got” on the November 27 installment of Carlson’s broadcast.
During the segment, Carlson claimed that police arrested a female viewer who used the anti-gay slur against a man who then assaulted her. Carlson expressed outrage over the alleged incident, but provided no proof that it actually happened.
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“You’re allowed to be homophobic if you want,” Carlson said. “In a free country, you can have any view you want. But no, because she used the word ‘f**got,’ she’s arrested, and the guy who punched her in the face is not. That story tells you everything.”
Carlson then asked Morgan if he would repeat the anti-gay slur on camera. When Morgan refused, Carlson asked if it was because he feared being arrested under the UK’s hate speech laws. Morgan explained, “I don’t believe in needlessly sneering or insulting anybody.”
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“My issue with the whole trans debate, for example, is you don’t need to slide into actually saying derogatory stuff about trans people to make the point that women’s rights should be protected,” Morgan added.
When Morgan asked Carlson if he would ever use the word on camera, Carlson then repeated it several times and explained that he did so because he is “not allowed to.” Carlson also claimed that opposition to the slur creates a “chilling effect” on his self-expression, and added, “I can use any freaking word I want.”
🚨 TUCKER: Would you say the word ‘f*ggot’ on camera?
PIERS MORGAN (UK): No.
TUCKER: You don’t want to get arrested, do you?
PIERS: Would you use it?
TUCKER: F*ggot? I just did. F*ggot, f*ggot, f*ggot.
PIERS: OK, why?
TUCKER: Because you’re not allowed to!
PIERS: I am… pic.twitter.com/mCSXRHNHFo
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 27, 2025
Carlson’s 1991 Trinity College yearbook lists him as a member of the “Dan White Society” and the “Jesse Helms Foundation.” White is the person who assassinated Harvey Milk, the groundbreaking out politician who urged gay people to “come out.” Helms, the late Republican senator from North Carolina, was notoriously racist and viciously anti-gay.
In 1990, Carlson wrote in his college newspaper that homosexuality was“unnatural and unhealthy.” In 2007, Carlson went on MSNBC Live to brag about the time he beat up a gay man in a bathroom.
Morgan recently released a new book entitled Woke Is Dead: How Common Sense Triumphed in an Age of Total Madness in which he defends the transphobic views of millionaire author J.K. Rowling.
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