Tucker Carlson built a large audience as a cable news commentator, most notably as host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023. Short excerpts from his monologues and interviews circulate widely on social media, where they are clipped detached from the original broadcast and reused as reactions. Supporters and critics both share the same fragments, often for opposite reasons, which helped turn his voice and delivery into a recognisable meme shorthand in political edits online.