{"id":24657,"date":"2026-08-01T23:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24657"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:52:41","slug":"mtg-teams-up-with-tucker-carlson-and-thomas-massie-to-plot-new-political-party-the-movement-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24657","title":{"rendered":"MTG Teams Up With Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie to Plot New Political Party: \u2018The Movement Has Begun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5747441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5747441\" class=\"wp-image-5747441 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mttggcarlson.jpg\" alt=\"Marjorie Taylor Greene teams up with Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie to launch a new political party.\" width=\"2074\" height=\"1120\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5747441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo via: @fmrrepmtg on X)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Republicans <strong>Majorie Taylor Greene<\/strong> and <strong>Tucker Carlson<\/strong> are apparently serious about their plans to launch a new political party &#8212; and they&#8217;ve got some help too.<\/p>\n<p>Greene posted a picture on Saturday of her and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/just-in-marjorie-taylor-greene-marries-conservative-journo-brian-glenn-in-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> her new husband<\/a> <strong>Brian Glenn\u00a0<\/strong>sitting at a wooden table headed by Carlson, who was flanked by lame duck Rep. <strong>Thomas Massie<\/strong> (R-KY) and another ex-fan of President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>: <strong>Joe Kent<\/strong>, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/just-in-trump-official-resigns-in-protest-over-war-with-iran-posed-no-imminent-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quit earlier this year<\/a> in protest of the Iran war. Massie and Kent&#8217;s wife are also seated at the table.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone appears to be pretty jolly in the picture \u2014 and focused on their mission to upend American politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he&#8217;s betrayed us all,&#8221; Greene wrote. &#8220;Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The movement has begun,&#8221; Greene capped off her post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"1767f0cc8bb9b2e9ca3f015dc7b6e858\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise.<br \/>But he\u2019s betrayed us all.<br \/>Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. <br \/>The movement has begun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mZXadw0kBr\">pic.twitter.com\/mZXadw0kBr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f1fa-1f1f8.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> (@FmrRepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FmrRepMTG\/status\/2083568963846303896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>And the gang&#8217;s fuel-of-choice for the plotting session? A batch of chocolate chip cookies and milk, based on the spread on the table.<\/p>\n<p>MTG&#8217;s pic comes a month after Carlson said he was working<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the-interview\/all-i-have-is-the-power-to-talk-and-be-heard-tucker-carlson-interview-pitying-trump-podcast-new-third-party-nicotine-pouch-alp-fox-news-fired-anti-war-gaza-immigration.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to \u201chelp build\u201d<\/a> a new third party. Carlson said it was imperative because the Republicans and Democrats are too busy worrying about foreign affairs while the lives of average Americans crumble.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0announcement followed Carlson saying in June he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tucker-carlson-officially-ditches-the-republican-party-not-loyal-to-the-united-states\/\"> done voting for Republicans. <\/a>MTG made the same announcement soon after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow could I or any American voter support a political party that\u2019s not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cIt\u2019s not possible to vote for people like that, and I\u2019m not going to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-3\">Carlson was referring to Israel, a country he has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/tucker-carlson-accuses-weak-trump-of-letting-israel-push-him-into-iran-war-not-the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0been fixated on<\/a>. He said Trump&#8217;s 2024 campaign was funded largely by people with \u201cloyalty to Israel,&#8221; which is now forcing the president to make decisions not in the best interest of the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-3\">Trump has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/did-israel-force-your-hand-abcs-rachel-scott-confronts-trump-on-iran-strike\/\">scoffed at those kinds of claims,<\/a> saying in March about the Iran war,\u201cIf anything, I might\u2019ve forced Israel\u2019s hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/mtg-teams-up-with-tucker-carlson-and-thomas-massie-to-plot-new-political-party-the-movement-has-begun\/\">MTG Teams Up With Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie to Plot New Political Party: \u2018The Movement Has Begun\u2019<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo via: @fmrrepmtg on X) Former Republicans Majorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson are apparently serious about their plans to launch a new political party &#8212; and they&#8217;ve got some help too. Greene posted a picture on Saturday of her and her new husband Brian Glenn\u00a0sitting at a wooden table headed by Carlson, who was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mttggcarlson.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}