Tucker Carlson doesn’t care about his country.

The fired Fox News personality once again demonstrated his ambivalence towards the United States’ many pressing problems when he placed — and recorded a video of himself placing — a frivolous prank call to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. That is, at least, according to the rules laid out by Carlson himself

“Yes, hi, I couldn’t understand the French part, but it’s Tucker Carlson calling from the United States and I’d be grateful if you’d pass a message on to the prime minister Justin Trudeau: We are coming to liberate Canada. We are coming to liberate Canada, and we’ll be there soon. Merci!” said Carlson after reaching the voicemail for Trudeau’s media contact line.

WATCH: Tucker Carlson called and gave a message to PM Justin Trudeau:

“We are coming to liberate Canada.”

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The video itself is cringe-inducing. It’s at once a joke that doesn’t land and an attempt at hinting a serious set of issues that actually downplays them. More than anything, it’s a reflection of just how far Carlson has fallen since he lost his influential perch at Fox last spring.

But if we were to judge Carlson by his own standards, it’s something worse yet: A telltale sign that he is a crazy, unpatriotic warmonger.

“There are people on the ‘right’ who have spent the last two months every single day focused on a conflict in a foreign country as our own country becomes dangerously unstable, on the brink of financial collapse, with tens of millions of people who shouldn’t be here in the country, we don’t know their identities or the purpose of their being here,” complained Carlson about The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro last month. “Like, stuff that could destroy the country for real and make it impossible for my kids to live here. They’ve said nothing about that, and they’re focused with laser intensity on foreign conflicts.”

He continued:

I’ve got four kids. If I’m so caught up in the problems of my neighbor’s children and completely ignoring my own children as they get addicted to drugs and kill themselves, you know, I’m not against helping my neighbors’ kids, but clearly I don’t love my kids. I mean, that’s you know, that’s the only logical conclusion. And they don’t care about the country at all. And that’s, you know, that’s kind of their prerogative. But I do. Because I have no choice, because I’m from here, my family’s been here hundreds of years, I plan to stay here.

I’m shocked by how little they care about the country and including the person you mentioned [Shapiro]. And I can’t imagine how someone like that could get an audience of people who claim to care about America, because he doesn’t, obviously.

You hear that? Shapiro’s focus on Israel in the aftermath of the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust in October was proof positive that he had no regard for his own countrymen.

Carlson has used the same assumption to smear advocates of continuing to aid Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia.

“You are distressed the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse in the last three years…. Where’s the concern for the United States in that?” he asked Mike Pence at an event in Iowa last summer.

And yet, even as he assails others for what he characterizes as disproportionate concern for other countries over their own, Carlson has devoted a great deal of his time and energy to foreign problems.

In November, he criticized Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for attempting to violate the country’s constitution, calling him “a tyrant” and “dictator.”

Before that, he interviewed Argentinian presidential candidate (and soon-to-be president) Javier Milei, decrying the “faded grandeur” of Buenos Aires and the larger country’s desperation.

And before that, he traveled to Budapest to chat with Hungarian Primed Minister Viktor Orbán.

Evidently, Carlson places a great deal of importance on events around the globe. Indeed, while his words would tell you that spending any amount of time pondering them betrays a lack of care for the United States, his actions reflect his knowledge that this is an utterly preposterous premise.

So the next time Carlson winks at anti-Semites or Russophiles while hiding behind his own, supposedly heartfelt concern for Americans affected by the opioid epidemic or border crisis, just remember that under his own simpleminded rules, he’s indicting himself.

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