- Tucker Carlson said Vladimir Putin was “a couple hours late” for their Kremlin interview this week.
- Making people wait is a power move often used by the Russian president.
- Putin launched into a lengthy revisionist history of Russia that Carlson said “annoyed” him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled a power move on Tucker Carlson that set the stage for the former Fox News host getting steamrolled.
In a post-interview reaction clip, Carlson said Putin was “a couple hours late” for his two-hour interview with the Russian leader in the Kremlin this week.
Making people wait is a tactic Putin has regularly used as a power play to show dominance over his guests, including world leaders.
Putin had former President Donald Trump wait for an hour before a summit in Helsinki in 2018.
He was about 50 minutes behind schedule for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2015, Reuters reported.
And he also held German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting for more than four hours at a private lunch in 2014, Radio Free Europe reported.
How does it feel Tucker? When the little reality you have formed around yourself comes crashing down, does it make you scared? When you sat in that chair waiting on a unrepentant mob boss and murderer did you realize he owns you now?
Do you really think this didn’t go as he expected and wanted?
Tucker’s happy to be owned. He’s pleased to be a lap dog. Lap dogs get lavished with praise and attention and unconditional love.
Oh sure when he was a half a world away and behind the strength of the US border. Not when he was surrounded by Putins security detail just waiting for hours hoping the last snarky comment he thought he made in private isn’t going to get him killed