Melania Trump Wants Tucker Carlson For VP

Melania Trump is advocating to her husband that he should pick Tucker Carlson as his 2024 running mate.

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Melania Trump Wants Tucker Carlson For VP

Given that the two parties have their nominations virtually settled already, speculation has already turned to who Donald Trump might choose to be his running mate, and not surprisingly, the situation is already odd.

According to Axios, Melania Trump is advocating for Tucker Carlson to be added to the ticket:

But here's an interesting twist: Melania Trump is an advocate for picking Tucker Carlson, the booted Fox News star. She thinks Carlson would make a powerful onstage extension of her husband, a source close to Trump told us. The former first lady has made few campaign appearances this time around — but a Trump-Carlson ticket might encourage her to hit the trail.

Trump, asked last month about Carlson as a potential V.P., said: "I like Tucker a lot. ... He's got great common sense."

The idea of Tucker Carlson has been discounted by many people close to Trump because they assume he'd never pick someone who could outshine him. And Trump's staff is convinced (correctly) that Carlson can't be controlled. But the two men talk a lot.

Anytime that Trump refers to anyone as having common sense that means that they agree with the former president.

The idea of Tucker Carlson anywhere in the United States government should alarm the majority of Americans, because Carlson shares Trump’s views, but is better at sanitizing and presenting authoritarianism to a mass audience.

It would be easy to write off the Carlson possibility as a pipe dream, but it is important to ask why Trump's wife would want Tucker Carlson and what her advocacy says about the weakness of Donald Trump as a 2024 candidate.