[Salon] Tucker Carlson interviews his uncle Buckley about Donald Trump -- excerpt



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1v7qwoCVV4

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, he really meant it with the Bushes. He hated them because they were WASPs. He hates WASPs, but he’s also obsessed with them. I’ve talked to him about it many times. And he’s obsessed with them. And he feels —

BUCKLEY CARLSON: I mean, the whole Mar-a-Lago was built when he was denied entry into the B&T.
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TUCKER CARLSON: You were there and we’re having lunch at the Bath Tennis Club and everyone’s like, “Oh, Donald Trump is building a club across the street for basically to give us the finger. And no, we’re not letting him or any of his friends in our club.” And I don’t think they have to this day, 40 years later. Anyway, none of that was ever reported by anybody.
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TUCKER CARLSON: There were a lot of dynamics here. Yes. Going on that nobody ever wants to talk about. We just happen to have witnessed them firsthand, so I know exactly what this was. But Trump’s resentment toward the WASPs was the driving force there, really. And he was an outer boroughs guy, never felt accepted by them, always wanted to be— always bragging, “I went to Penn.” Like, okay, Penn, you know? And like, they never liked him, they never accepted him, and boy did he get them back.
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TUCKER CARLSON: And even to this day, I mean, 6 weeks ago I was talking to him about this, his resentment toward the Bushes and its ethnic and social.

BUCKLEY CARLSON: He acknowledges that literally upfront?

TUCKER CARLSON: No, of course not. But he’s very fixated on the WASP thing and does talk about it a lot.

BUCKLEY CARLSON: I believe it.
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TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, I don’t know, but you get what you put up with, and they put up with it and like, oh, it’s okay, you have a good point. Anyway, but yeah, no, he wanted to destroy the Bushes because, you know, he didn’t agree with their program, I guess. He said he didn’t agree with their program, but the real reason he wanted to destroy them was, you know, they go to the B&T and he doesn’t.
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TUCKER CARLSON: Preserve the truth. Preserve the truth. Let’s preserve the truth. So I just want this to be a record of the truth. And that, you know, status anxiety, which is a huge driver of human behavior. Is it not?

BUCKLEY CARLSON: Yes.

TUCKER CARLSON: It’s a huge driver of President Trump’s behavior. Huge driver of his behavior. Plays a role in all this stuff. These unannounced conflicts between groups for power and prestige and rank. These are big questions.
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TUCKER CARLSON: Exactly. And so if you have the total displacement after over 200 years of the American ruling class by a new group, that’s a big thing. Yes. But nobody says a word about it. And I’m not even taking sides in it, though, you know, obviously I have a side to take, but I’m not taking sides in it. But like, that happened. It happened over 40 years. And now it’s complete. And like, no one can say that that happened? Are you kidding? It’s absurd. Yeah. But good or bad, like, by the way, that is the story of history. Like, groups displace other groups. And there’s reasons for that and survival of the fittest and all that.

BUCKLEY CARLSON: Got it.

TUCKER CARLSON: Not even decrying it. I’m just saying the fact that no one will acknowledge that that happened and that it had massive effects on everything and that those resentments or aspirations drive behavior that has results that we see all around us and no one will say it, it’s really shocking.


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