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Alex Bruesewitz Interview: Tucker Carlson Show (Transcript)

The following is the full transcript of Trump’s Social Media Advisor Alex Bruesewitz’s interview on The Tucker Carlson Show, June 26, 2026.

Editor’s Note: In this interview, host Tucker Carlson sits down with a social media advisor to President Trump to discuss the current political landscape and the influence of digital media on public discourse. The conversation covers a range of topics, including coordinated efforts to shape public opinion on the conflict in the Middle East, substantive policy debates within the administration, and the dynamics of political advisory in the Trump era. The advisor also offers insights into how the President gathers information and weighs various perspectives when making decisions.

Introduction: Coordinated Attacks on the Iran MOU

TUCKER CARLSON: Alex Bruesewitz, thank you for doing this. Very nice of you to do this. So here’s my perception, here’s the overview. So we’re in this war, obviously I disapprove, whatever, I’ve said that many times. Then the president decides we’re getting out, and the vice president articulates how and why, and I couldn’t be more supportive of that. I was thrilled by that, thank God.

And then all of a sudden there is this just flurry of attacks on the president, but mostly on the vice president, from people who don’t have an alternative plan but basically just calling the vice president, some of the president, names. It seemed to me as an outsider, less fluent in the internet than you are, that this is coordinated. Like, what is this? What are we looking at?

ALEX BRUESEWITZ: Well, it’s a great observation. I believe that there definitely is a coordinated effort to put pressure on the president and the administration to continue the conflict in Iran. And I believe that there is potentially even foreign influence involved, not just from one country. So I think it’s definitely a coordinated effort.

You’re seeing a lot of these voices, they kind of move as a pocket. They talk about a lot of the similar issues. They oftentimes do the similar paid media campaigns around other related topics. And there’s also evidence of millions and millions and millions of dollars flowing to certain right-wing influencer marketing companies from countries who might benefit from a prolonged conflict. So I believe there’s definitely a coordinated effort.

Similarly, right after the war was about to end, or I guess the MOU was coming out—

TUCKER CARLSON: Yes.

Misinformation About the Iran Deal

ALEX BRUESEWITZ: A lot of the anti-war voices were also spreading misinformation about the deal. They were pushing a line about how United States taxpayers were somehow going to give $300 billion to Iran. And I look at people like Thomas Massie, who’s been on this program. He was very quick to share the statement saying that this MOU is terrible because we’re going to give $300 billion to Iran, which is not true. It never was true. It’s money that can be unlocked over time. Not a single dollar will come from American taxpayers. But people like Massie were also spreading misinformation. So I think that there’s a lot of coordinated misinformation being spread from the pro-war side and also some anti-war critics as well.

TUCKER CARLSON: Interesting. So can I just get your take on something before we proceed into the details of what you just alleged? You’re alleging things, Alex Bruesewitz, which seemed true to me, but I want to know why you think it.

But first, to the question of the people criticizing the MOU. I know plenty of ways to criticize the MOU, but all of that criticism I think needs to be viewed in context of what the alternatives to the MOU might be. Like, okay, maybe you don’t like the MOU, but then what, right? Did any of the people in this campaign that you’re describing offer an alternative to the MOU? Like, we continue this war and then what happens, right?

ALEX BRUESEWITZ: No, there’s been no alternatives offered. There’s just straight criticism. It’s keyboard warriors. That’s what we deal with. Fortunately, their opinions have very little impact on the electorate, the populace. We’ve seen polling from Daily Mail, Fabrizio Lee, McLaughlin, all these different polls that show President Trump’s MOU is widely popular with the American people. 67%, actually. 67%. And so this—

TUCKER CARLSON: The framework of the settlement deal with Iran, the 14 points that have been everywhere. Yes, it’s 67%.

ALEX BRUESEWITZ: 67% of Americans who’ve been polled on that issue are supportive of the Trump-Vance agreement. But if you look at social media, you think that nobody’s in favor of it because of coordinated influence campaigns from unique actors and foreign parties.

Social Media Distortion and Public Opinion

TUCKER CARLSON: Interesting. It makes you— I’m not actually surprised because, again, they’re offering no alternative to the MOU, right? So if there was some way for the United States to get more, I could see the criticism as being valid. So I’m not surprised by that number, but it does make you think maybe there are other issues where our view of it is totally distorted because our view comes from social media.

ALEX BRUESEWITZ: Definitely. And a lot of the press rooms, they get their stories from social media. The producers, they get what topics they’re going to discuss in their shows from social media. Because they think that is what people are talking about. And some people are talking about it, but in the grand scheme of things, a very small percentage of people are actually talking or caring about these issues.

And so I think it’s very healthy and important for Americans in our country to start pulling back from believing everything that they read on social media and start questioning a lot of the people that they’re getting the information from, on all sides of issues. There’s a lot of influence and a lot of money from special interest groups from foreign countries that have poured into the internet ecosystem, and I don’t think it’s been healthy for our democracy, for our country.

I’ve been working actually with Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna and some other friends in government to maybe strengthen some disclosure laws, but there’s a lot of influence ops that happen on social media.