Conor McGregor’s Interview on The Tucker Carlson Show (Transcript)

And it ignites a fire in me to stand up. There’s something in my belly for my country that I cannot shake. And even despite maybe the worrisome of my mother and people in my life. Why? Let’s go away. Let’s sail on the yacht. Let’s do something else. I cannot. My country is my country and I’ll fight for it till the day I go out. And that is it.

Growing Up in Dublin

TUCKER CARLSON: Where did you… What was it like growing up here? Where’d you grow up? What were the circumstances? What was Ireland like as you were?

CONOR MCGREGOR: A beautiful place. Beautiful place to grow. Very community driven and family driven. And I grew up in a Dublin suburb off the city centre called Crumlin. Dublin 12 is the district. It’s why I named my Whiskey Proper Number 12 after my district. It’s where my public house is that we will go after in Dublin 12. The Black Forge Inn. It’s also home to the largest children’s hospital in the country. So most people in Ireland have a relationship with the area. It’s a rough and tough area also.

TUCKER CARLSON: Was it growing up rough?

CONOR MCGREGOR: For sure it was. For sure it was. You know, we moved out when I was about 17 years of age and that kind of got me a little break from it, if you will. But I was 17 years of age, I had already made my friends. I was like an alien in the new place. So I always made my way back down. My boxing club was down there, my football club was down there, all my friends were down there. So although I moved out at 17, I never really moved out, you know. But Ireland’s a great place, full of great people.

TUCKER CARLSON: But it wasn’t a rich neighborhood you grew up in?

CONOR MCGREGOR: No, no, no, no, it was not. No, for sure not.

TUCKER CARLSON: What, so you’re 17. What did you… How far did you get in school?

CONOR MCGREGOR: I went all the way to where my leaving Certs. I was the only one in my family to do so. I hold that.

TUCKER CARLSON: At what age did you leave? 18?

From Plumber to Fighter

CONOR MCGREGOR: 18 years of age. I didn’t go to college. I went into an apprenticeship. It’s either you get a job, you go to college or you get an apprenticeship. And I got an apprenticeship as a plumber on an industrial site in Kiltiernan, County Wicklow, which was actually at the time one of the… Actually it was the largest building site in Europe at the time.

And lo and behold, misspending, overspending over budget, all the rest of it, backhand, are central. The thing fell apart, the ass fell out of it, we’ll say. And that is one of my issues here in Ireland, the people of Ireland, the overspending that’s going on, this is our public wealth being administered into private hands, enriching people to bring in this influx of illegal mass migration that is changing the fabric of my country. Ireland is very close to losing its Irishness and we will not let that happen.

You know, and that’s it. We must continue to raise our voice and speak our peace. It’s almost taboo to speak it and it has been made that way by our government elite. Like I said, they use bullying, they use intimidation tactics, they use our funds to pay our legacy media to push an agenda. They do not push facts, they push agendas.

Ireland’s Cultural Identity

TUCKER CARLSON: And I mean, I’ve only been here two days, but I’m a little bit confused by it because Ireland is not like the United States in that you have an indigenous population of Celtic people called the Irish who’ve been here since the beginning of known history. And so it’s not like you were invaders. You were also never a colonial power. You never invaded anybody else. You didn’t have overseas colonies. You just kind of stayed on your island and brewed alcoholic beverages and the…

CONOR MCGREGOR: Best brewery in the land. Not to be…

TUCKER CARLSON: You never bothered anybody. You don’t have any national crimes to atone for. So I come here to Dublin, your biggest city, and not one advertisement on any public space has Irish people in it.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: And it’s clearly part of the same propaganda campaign. Yeah, like make white people hate themselves, make white people feel ashamed to be white. White people are criminals. It’s like, okay, but why would they? Who’s doing that to you and why? Like, what is that?

CONOR MCGREGOR: I feel since the turn of the crash, our government elite have been accosted into full time globalist traders of Ireland. And they take their orders from above. And it is not even them. They are being ordered and the orders are coming down onto the people and the people have no say.

We need amendments to the constitution. We need to remove this tight grip that the political elite have over the public. And that is it. And that is our goal here. Eventually I operate my businesses and my entire life on fairness. That is it. What is fair, what is correct? Our government elite do the absolute opposite. And it has to change. It has got to change. Our culture is being erased.

Immigration and Irish Identity

TUCKER CARLSON: And you have a very distinct thousand year older culture that’s based on Irishness the indigenous population of the island that we’re on right now, and they’re being replaced at super high speed. So you have said immigration is treason. Mass migration is treason. Describe the scale of it to Ireland and its effects.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Well, in the olden days, my family, the MacGregor clan, you know, treason is you’re hung, drawn and quartered if you commit treason against your nation. So, what is going on here is an abomination, a travesty, and it cannot continue for much longer.

As you said, we are an island unto ourselves, a small island, and we are being governed by a small people who are in turn being governed by another minute group of people, and it must stop. And that’s it.

There is so much worry in this government elite circle about myself running for president. And if we are a true democratic nation, which we are not, and I don’t believe so, and it’s becoming more and more clear and more evident, and the more Irish people are being awakened to this fact. But if we are, let the people decide. You know, it is this cozy clique where you have to almost bend the knee to even have a shot at this. We should be on the ticket, and a citizen of Ireland should be allowed to be on the ticket above a certain age of a certain creed, and…

Political Aspirations

TUCKER CARLSON: Let the people decide the ticket to run for president.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Ticket to run for president. That is it. I do not…

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, wait, hold on.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Why?

TUCKER CARLSON: This is a democracy, supposedly. Why can’t you run for president?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Because there’s stipulations. You have to get four county councils which are controlled by the government parties, or you have to get 20 nominations of the Arrakis, which are all mostly party affiliate.

TUCKER CARLSON: You can’t just run for president.

CONOR MCGREGOR: You can’t just run for president.

TUCKER CARLSON: So how is it a democracy?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah, there you go. How is it? It isn’t.

TUCKER CARLSON: Oh, are you going to do it anyway?

Highlighting Ireland’s Plight and Delights

CONOR MCGREGOR: I’m going to push forward and carry on my journey, highlighting my country’s plight, my country’s fight, and also my country’s delights. You know, I do not want to be doom and gloom here. As I said, Dublin is the greatest city on earth, and Ireland is the greatest country on earth. And I know as an American man, you’re probably sitting there in your chair, but we love Ireland dearly, our people.

TUCKER CARLSON: No, I’m not, actually. I’m just the opposite. I’m thinking you’ve got a claim on.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Being the greatest and it’s worth fighting for, and that’s it. That’s why I.

TUCKER CARLSON: But so why wouldn’t people. I know the media here hates you, but I’ve never understood why. I mean, you’re not calling for invading anybody or throwing anyone in prison. Maybe other than your corrupt leadership sound like they deserve it. Why would they hate you?

The End of the Politician Era

CONOR MCGREGOR: I’m just calling for national safety. Right now, our national security is at risk, and that is the fact we are being overrun and it’s a danger to the public. And on top of that is our overspending of our public wealth. It is preposterous. The splashing of our money on issues that have not, one, not got to do with us, and two, that actually directly put us in danger.

These are my issues that I wish we’d say run on our campaign. You ask about my political aspirations. I am of the belief that the era of the politician must end. It must come to an end. It has proven unfruitful. And that is clear as day by the statistics and by what we see around us. It is straight chancery.

Our ministers and our appointed ministers have no history in the roles that they are appointed to. Our Minister of Finance has no history in accounting. Our minister of Health has no history in the health industry. Our minister of education was never a school teacher. It is straight chancery we are dealing with.

The era of the politician must end, Tucker. And I can see with the selections of the Trump administration that we look upon, which has been 24/7 walk rate from my vantage point, you know, Trump, a businessman, you know, he’s running it more like a business and with common sense.

That is where I would see it more so than these politicians, where they’re all in this clique and it’s a party. They are working on behest of the party and not the people. They are working to curry favor within the party, to rise up the ranks, and then the heads of the party are working to curry favor on the people above them. Again, to rise up another rank. It just does not serve the country.

I’m simply highlighting it, putting it out to the people. If they wish for me to run whatever my nation wants, I’m here for. That’s it.

TUCKER CARLSON: CNN has described you as the leader, and I’m quoting, of Ireland’s far right, who has CNN, which is a news channel in the United States.

Centered and Grounded

CONOR MCGREGOR: Far left, far right. All of these terminologies mean nothing to me. I am a family man. I’m an employer of the country, you know, I’m a supporter of many people and I care about my land and the safety of its citizens and the prosperity of its citizens. I want preference. I want peace, preference and prosperity for the citizens of Ireland, for my people. And isn’t that fair for our country, men and women? It is our country. Ireland is for Ireland, you know, and that is it.

I don’t. Right, left. You know, I feel I’m centered. That is what I feel. In fact, I ground myself every day. I walk out and I ground myself every day barefoot in the grass. Barefoot is king. I fought the octagons in the cages all around the countries of Ireland and then into the United States of America, barefoot. So I am a grounded man, either left, right, I am center and grounded.

TUCKER CARLSON: So in the conversations I’ve had with people in Dublin, every single person I’ve talked to has said the same thing, which is Irish people can no longer afford houses. Their kids can’t afford to get married, and their kids can’t afford to have kids, and they can’t afford to have kids. You know, the Irish family of 12 children doesn’t exist anymore, in part because no one can afford that. And yet your government is subsidizing immigrants to have kids. Yeah, so I do. And that’s true in my country too, in Australia and New Zealand and Canada and the UK like, what is that?

The Rising Cost of Living

CONOR MCGREGOR: Suicide is what it is. It’s absolute suicide. And yeah, no, it has to stop. It has to stop. The rising cost of living is a national emergency. Yes. And you know, it has to stop. We say no, we built a toll bridge here in Ireland. We built toll bridges. They’re sold to foreign companies. The funds of this goes to foreign companies. It’s silly. It’s luminous.

TUCKER CARLSON: So the people of Ireland build something and then your government sells it to foreigners and then you have to pay for it.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Six billion per annum in profit. And people, another thing. The traffic car on Guardi Sheikhana is one of the most successful divisions in the Guardi, in our police force, for convictions. And, you know, it is the most successful and it has caused untold stress onto the people of Ireland. I wonder the amount of suicides and the amount of lives lost and families destroyed over the stress of the traffic car institution with, you know, driving without tax or no NCT. It’s all a money racket.

TUCKER CARLSON: So just for foreigners watching this, you’re talking about parking and minor traffic violations.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah, minor traffic violations. You are put through the wringer. And now in this day and age, which is why it’s so infuriating, and then, you know, we’ll keep calm with it, but it’s why people in Ireland are waking up, because everyone has felt in some way, shape or form the stress of having to make sure that you’re above board on this money racket is what it is.

TUCKER CARLSON: So it’s not to keep you safe. It’s not to keep you safe.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Not to keep you safe. But in this day and age now we’ve got our new visitors to the island who get fully exempt from driving without tax, insurance, NCT, and even on Irish reg plates, free as a bird right through.

After the immigrants have gone through the most stressful periods of our life. Lives have been lost due to the stress caused of this branch in Ongara Sheikhona. And yet now people, now our neighbors from other countries are moving here and with full exemption to drive around our roads with supercharged vehicles that have been imported on the taxpayers dime.

And then also even another crazy statement is if something happens to your vehicle, if you’re a nice friendly visitor or potential new member of our country, you get your vehicle repaired at a cost of the state. So it is just ludicrous. And the people of Ireland are rising up to it. Not even we’re just being awakened to it. And that’s it. As we awaken, you know, we’re noticing.

TUCKER CARLSON: Is what you said real?

CONOR MCGREGOR: That’s very, very real. Very, very real.

TUCKER CARLSON: How can they justify you?

CONOR MCGREGOR: They cannot. There is no justification. You know what? There is silence. And that is, that doesn’t work. You cannot be silent on this. Like I said, you’re not going to get off ruining Ireland or ripping off Ireland, never in a million years.

TUCKER CARLSON: But if they’re paying foreigners to have kids while you can’t afford to have kids, if they’re shaking you down with the armed police, but allowing foreigners a pass, if they’re paying to fix foreigners cars, but not yours, they hate you and they’re trying to kill you, right?

Taking Back Ireland

CONOR MCGREGOR: It’s an erasure, it’s an attempted erasure of our people. That is it. I could have went all that way in the White House. I had to climb. We have to go incrementally up, right? You go in. Hey, it’s. You talk about a genocide. This is the genocide of our people, obviously. But you know, you gotta climb it, right?

So we’re getting there and awareness is being made and we’ll make the moves. And there’s many great people, in fact, the majority of the Irish people are great people. Majority are great people doing great things for our nation. And the pressure and the awareness we’re putting on our government elite is causing slight changes.

You know, they’re doing certain things to appease. However how genuine that is, how much of a facade that is. We’re skeptical. Our trust is at an all time low. And you know, you see, we walk the length and breadth of the Dublin city capital and its love and cheer and support. Not one politician under any party can do the same. And that is a shame.

I don’t understand why they. Ireland, we are the greatest supporters. You do good by Ireland, Ireland will do good by you. And none more is that evident than in myself. We are the greatest supporters in the world. They say how our politicians do not wish to receive this love. I do not understand it.

Fundraising efforts will begin and there will be a large fund built into this where we’re going to really take back our country. And that’s it. Funds are needed. Money is needed.

TUCKER CARLSON: Is anybody. So you’ve made a. I think if.

CONOR MCGREGOR: If I think about these tariffs, what’s going on right now while their money dries up and they’re panicking about their money, our government elite, our money rises up. And that is an exciting thing for the people of Ireland to hear. And that’s what this is. My funds are infinite and I’m all in for the country of Ireland. And I’ve got incredible backing from your country and other countries that wish to support our cause. And they said it’s a real movement for change.

TUCKER CARLSON: So let me ask you. So a lot of political move, or one political movement in particular in Ireland had support from rich Irish Americans for years. The Republicans and nationalists here had support from donors in the United States. Do you think Irish Americans in the US, a lot of whom are rich, understand what’s happening?

The Impact of Immigration on Ireland

CONOR MCGREGOR: No. For sure. And when I seen Michael Martin, our Taoiseach, our rotating Taoiseach, grace the oval office on March 12, five days before St. Patrick’s Day, five days before myself, I saw softball. I saw a game of softball by Vance, by Vice President Vance and President Trump, and almost a little bit of pandering to him, being safe with him, because you cannot speak, seeing that that’s 40 million Irish Americans and that vote is very strong for the administration. You know, you need that on strong. Yeah, you need that on side.

So they couldn’t be seen. Although their feelings are well known, they’re well against what’s going on here in this country. They could not be seen to be tearing through an Irish delegate on the St Patrick’s Week. So they played it. They played it correct.

And then when I seen this, I said, okay. And I got my call to go and show up. I said, I’m going to highlight this to the Irish American people. This is what’s really going on. You know, some people are saying, hey, I’m from Wexford, I’m from Wexford, my grandmother’s from Wexford. I said, Wexford was the sunny south east, is what we used to call Wexford. Well, we do call it a holiday destination. It is now. No more.

There is no hotels available in Wexford. They’re all transferred into IPAS centers, which are International Protection Applicant Services. It’s this racket where they’re all getting housed. It is a house. It is an office block. It is a hotel. It is even a school. There’s even schools now are being transferred into these.

TUCKER CARLSON: Filled with immigrants.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Filled with immigrants, yes.

TUCKER CARLSON: So they totally Wexford.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Wexford. Russell Airport is another port where they arrive in. And they’re in County Wexford, which used to be the sunny southeast, a beautiful holiday destination is now without a hotel in the county. You know, they’ve all been transferred into International protection.

TUCKER CARLSON: Why doesn’t someone overthrow the government here? Yeah, I mean, that’s like an act of war against your country. I mean, I shouldn’t say that to you because I don’t want to get you.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Look, I’m statesmanlike. Statesmanlike. I’ll say this. We are peaceful. We are not harmless.

TUCKER CARLSON: In a normal country, people wouldn’t put up with that.

CONOR MCGREGOR: We move under God and we let God guide us. We’re capable of many things. We’re capable of many things as a great nation, as a great people, and we move under God.

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, you’ve heard a lot of complaining in the last couple of weeks since Donald Trump announced his new import tariffs on foreign made things. A lot of people don’t like it. But the companies who make American products in America with American materials, they’re pretty happy. They’re not affected by this. They’ve been doing the right thing since the beginning. They’re not paying tariffs because again, they’re making American products for Americans.

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TUCKER CARLSON: So you believe that Irish Americans again, who funded a lot of stuff in Ireland over the years. A lot of Investment?

Immigration Policy and Solutions

CONOR MCGREGOR: You need to realize where you originated from is on the cusp of being done. And some are already gone. Some are already gone. However, it’s not. I don’t see it as. I see it as correctable. Still, I see it as fixable.

You know, even if you think about, like, a deportation efforts, I asked Speaker Johnson, where are you going to go? You’re talking about this. It’ll be the largest deportation effort in the United States history. Where do you plan on going? He said, the prisons. He said the prisons force. And I just thought, okay.

And then I thought about our prisons. Our prisons are overrun right now. We’ve got, I think maybe just thousands of people without a bed even in the prison, let alone. We can’t house our people. We can’t even have a bed for the prisoners. So, you know, straight away, you’re going in there, you came in, you committed a crime on our soil, you’re gone. You know, that’s it. No if, ands or buts. Why is the taxpayer paying to keep prisoners from foreign countries in our prisons? And it’s being overran.

So, you know, I would be up for that. And then I would be going to these IPAS centers. I would be going to the direct provision centers. How did you enter our country illegally? You’re gone, you know, have you a criminal history gone? Are you. Is there a genuine attempt to assimilate into the culture and achieve a job and give to the community and support the community? If so, yes. Cade Miller Forte. If not gone, and, you know, we can do that.

And then also a turning off of the tap. You know, right now, as I said about the car situation, you know, they arrive, they get. You get favor if you’re from another nation, but if you’re from. If you are not, why, who thought of this? It’s an order from above. It’s a globalist agenda. That’s the truth of it. It’s a globalist agenda.

TUCKER CARLSON: I know it is.

CONOR MCGREGOR: So for me, if I get in, I’m going to be exerting my influence to turn off the tap. If you think about what Trump has done, they’re actually stopping, coming in because it’s not there no more. The gravy train isn’t there no more. What is there is actually resistance, and that’s where it’s at now.

There is a human, there’s compassion. For me, there’s compassion. I employ people from all walks of life. So there is a compassion element. Many people have emigrated here, have done great things for our country, and that has to be highlighted also. But it’s like at a stage now where the great people who have came here and emigrated and contributed greatly to our society are now being feeling the strain of and are feeling the wrath almost because of this social unrest. It has to stop. It has got to stop. You know, and we’re at our limit with it. We are really at our limit with it.

How the next few years go. It’s worrisome. It is worrisome. This EU pact, this EU migration pact that as a president, I could get in and I could really rattle it and put it to a stop, push to stop it, which is which would be the main thing they’re trying to now hurry it through, which if goes. If it goes through, it’s like 30,000, 40,000, 50,000. It’s an unlimited number that we’ll have to take. It’s on the orders of.

TUCKER CARLSON: And move all around your country, right into small town. That’s what they’ve done in the United States. They move them into small towns around the country. So then your country’s gone and you.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Don’t even know it. Yeah, yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: Are they doing that here?

Cultural Impact and Media Response

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah. There’s counties overrun right now. There’s a county in Ireland, Karna. It’s a Gaeltach county. It’s a Gaeltach town. And there’s more IPAS center. It was a home for the Ukrainians, and now it’s being altered into an IPAS center. And it’s one of the last places of our language. And that is being. That is feeling an influx of it. And there’s, you know, the people are out in the streets against it. So it is happening in counties all over Ireland, for sure. And with this EU migration pact, if the floodgates are open on that, it’s a difficult time.

TUCKER CARLSON: It’s changing the religious composition of your country, which since St Patrick has been a Catholic country, you had Anglican overlords from across the water, but it’s been a Catholic country for over a thousand years. So now they’re trying to put a refugee center, in a way, at a Christian holy site town in Ireland.

CONOR MCGREGOR: I was reading this. Yeah, yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: It’s hard to think that’s not on purpose.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah, yeah. It is purposeful, for sure.

TUCKER CARLSON: Is anyone saying anything about this, like, in your media?

CONOR MCGREGOR: You know, I wonder. I do often wonder, and I’m almost certain they must behind doors. You know, it’s like, if your boss says something and you don’t agree, but you’re going to not. You might have to agree because your livelihood is on the line, which is essentially what it is. A lot of people’s livelihoods are on the line.

In fact, the only people that agree with it are in public. Because I actually, I could not believe that they could believe it behind closed doors, boss or not, livelihood or not, I’m almost certain they cannot. They cannot, you know, believe in this way for our country, but that’s it. I’m just, you know.

TUCKER CARLSON: So you. Your biggest media company, state media, it’s like North Korean state media. It’s called RTE.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: And it literally is an organ in the state, which is amazing. But then you have social media, and you tweeted on social media, “Ireland, we’re at war.” Yeah, you obviously are. What was the reaction from the government to that tweet?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Oprah? You know, I was a scapegoat. And an incident happened where an Algerian visitor or citizen had an Irish passport and Algeria, or so he believed that. The information is very. It’s not fully revealed.

TUCKER CARLSON: You can never get a straight answer from these people.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Never get a straight answer. Our children were stabbed outside of an Irish school on Parnell street, and a teacher was stabbed trying to fight them off. And then an Irishman jumped in, and then an immigrant from Brazil jumped in, and together they wrestled him down. And then it was, you know, hide it and blame my tweets as the reason it kicked off. And that’s kind of what we’re dealing with.

TUCKER CARLSON: Algerians stabbed Irish children. But it was your fault.

Law Enforcement and Ireland’s Future

CONOR MCGREGOR: Pretty much. Was kind of what the rhetoric was. Yes. And then, you know, that was it. Yeah, pretty much. Like I said, I often wonder about. If I think about, you know, did they believe in this?

We have 6,000 members of the Defence Force, 6,000 army, and we have about 12,000 Garda. I really wonder how many are happy with the direction our country was going. I cannot see. I cannot see many behind closed doors. Garda are the police. I cannot see many closed doors that are happy with this.

Even if I look at what has happened in some of the protests, where the Garda, essentially the Garda, are following orders. They’re doing their job. It’s a tricky one, and it’s a sad one to see. It was very sad and upsetting to see our Garda on their compatriots, and that’s what we saw. And use excessive Force, but it’s an order coming down. And I feel sad seeing it. I feel sad seeing it.

And, you know, most recently, one of them came out unnamed and said it has stayed with him. They are very, very troubled by it. And it’s just a sad sight to see. You know, Ireland, we should be together. And that’s what I said. I wonder how many behind closed doors are really with this cause that we are fighting. So if not, I would assume it’s most. The majority.

TUCKER CARLSON: I think that’s true in the US Too. I think probably our FBI is totally corrupt, as I’m sure you’ve read. I think most FBI agents are probably appalled, but too afraid to do anything. How long, if nothing changes, will Ireland remain Ireland, do you think? How much time do you have before it’s just not bigger?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Well, we are a small island. We are a small, small island. And we are now, I don’t even want to highlight. I’m actually at a stage now where I’m cautious of highlighting the benefits of arriving here because it’s only going to attract more.

You know, if I look at Trump’s situation, it has decreased the amount of people who are attempting to immigrate to the United States of America because of what’s going on. This is what I wish would have happened. You know, if they turn off the tap, they go, or they stop coming. If you start, if you show a basket full of golden eggs, you know, they just arrived for it, you know, and that’s kind of what it is.

TUCKER CARLSON: So it’s awful here. I just want to say that it’s.

CONOR MCGREGOR: A free for all, with our public wealth, with our money, a free for all. And it’s being stolen, and it has to stop. It’s not how. How long. I couldn’t give you the exact figures, you know, statistics. It doesn’t look right. It could happen. You’re not. Not long, anyway. Not long.

# Conor McGregor’s Interview on The Tucker Carlson Show

Conor McGregor’s Political Views and Aspirations

TUCKER CARLSON: Feels that way. So how did you. Just back to my original question. You’re a plumber’s apprentice on an industrial site in Ireland, cutting cast iron pipes and replacing them or whatever you’re doing. Probably something like that. And then you wind up here thinking about running for president with these very evolved political views. How did that happen?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Having a love for one’s country. That’s it. I have a love for my country. I fought to represent my nation’s flag on the grandest stage of fighting. That was my aspiration, to represent my nation, to open the doors of the fighting world. And the martial arts world to the Irish public and to support my teammates. We were all, we had a kindred spirit rising up, chasing our dreams and a very tight knit there, tight knit crew. And we rose up and I got in there, I was successful, I opened it up. Now the martial arts lifestyle is a real way of living for many people in Ireland. I take great happiness in seeing that and I suppose it’s just continued off of that. You know, it’s, it’s, it’s a different fight now. You know, it’s a different fight, but it’s still a fight to represent my country to the best of my ability.

TUCKER CARLSON: So when you started fighting, as you said, you’re a plumber’s apprentice on an industrial site, and then you announce in public a few years after that, you haven’t heard of me, but I’m gonna be the world champion. And you were.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah, five time.

TUCKER CARLSON: Did you know that you were gonna be or were you trying to put your marker out and then live up to it?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Well, that’s what I will say here about, you know, I do not wish to be doom and gloom. Right. My outlook on life has always been to have a positive outlook, you know, borderline delusional. I could walk into a burning house and see, hear Birds chirping as an example. And that assisted me in being able to block out certain things that may have impacted me and, yes, hampered me and slowed me down from getting to where I was going. So I wish to continue with that and have a positive outlook and say it’s not all doom and gloom. Like I said, there are.

There are positive changes happening incrementally, slowly but surely. Slowly but surely. And as I said, there’s a great group of people and it’s the majority of Irish people that are. That are at the helm of it. I’m. I am a voice and a support, and as I said, I’m here to serve my country, serve my country to the best of my ability and protect my country. That is. That is all I wish. I wish for the people to have the power and myself to have a vote amongst the people. That is my. That is my aim.

TUCKER CARLSON: What did you think of President Trump?

CONOR MCGREGOR: What do I think of him? Yeah, I think he’s doing very, very well. I think. You know, I was present for his 2016 inauguration, although not officially. I was there on fighting business. I was fighting in Madison Square Garden for my second UFC world title. And you MMA and UFC had just became legalized in New York at the time.

And I remember Trump had been just voted in and he won the election. And there was uproar on the streets and anger and, you know, fear, I suppose, was going on. And at that time, I was just an observer. You know, politics wasn’t really on my mind at that time. Ireland was not really going through what it was going through at that stage in 2016, although it was rising, it was unbeknownst to me and many in the country.

TUCKER CARLSON: Were you not political, really?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Not really political, no. At that stage, you know, I was focused on my craft and it wasn’t at the forefront. It all kind of took a turn post Covid. It all took a real turn post Covid, and you could kind of see what was going on and what had gone on post the crash, you know, who our government are serving. You could kind of see that come to fruition then throughout the COVID era. And then I just became more invested in, and then that was it. But I was there for Trump’s inauguration when he sworn in for the first time. Fear, worry, panic.

And then I was there the second time in 2024, most recent, and it was elation and excitement, and I thought it was good to see. They asked me, what do I think he’ll be as the president. I said, well, when it was 2016 in the media runs I was doing. And I said, let’s see, you know, give the man a chance. He’s not by. He’s not from a political background. He’s from a different background. It’s interesting. Let us see. And I thought he’d done well, you know, towards the end of the term. You know, there may have been times to, you know, as a leader of a country, you, you almost need to, you know, cool the flames. You know, maybe there were some things that may. Might have fanned the flames towards the end of his term that I thought.

But this time around, I feel he’s off to a good start and I wish him well. I wish the country of the United States on America well. We, I consider them my dear siblings. We consider America our sibling. And I think it’s going well and we’re getting a good, fair bit of energy from it, from Ireland, even amidst the tariff situation that is going on.

You know, Ireland’s people have not seen the money got to do with this whatsoever. In fact, we have been, you know, robbed of our own money. And yet we are supposed to. Supposed to be this wealthy country, yet the people of Ireland are struggling to heat their homes. So there are many people who are seeing this tariff situation as a, you know, a gotcha moment for our government. I’m not so much of that. I wish, I wish for our, our country to be prosperous and our people to be prosperous, and that’s what my aim is. That’s what my wish is and my hope is.

TUCKER CARLSON: So you’re not necessarily against the tariffs?

CONOR MCGREGOR: It doesn’t sound like, well, our government say, what good is tariffs? Tariffs are no good for nobody. Yet they’ve been tariff in the United States. You know, if that’s the case, then why have we been tariffing them? Why haven’t we been hitting. Why have we been hitting them with tariffs? I’m not so much against it. I’m watching it. You know, I’m watching it. I wish for economic success for my nation and you know, Ireland deserves it. That’s how it straight. We played our cards correct in certain ways and you know, that’s it. But like I said, fair. It has to be fair. Fairness is, is key here. And that’s, that’s what I, that’s what I push for him.

TUCKER CARLSON: Since no Irish politician. Well, you’re one of the most, maybe the most famous living Irishman. Okay, so there’s that world famous. And you’re saying things that the overwhelming majority of your politicians will not say that are probably pretty popular with the people. So you’re therefore a massive threat to the structure running your country. Now, what do you think they’re going to do to you if you keep talking this way?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Attempt to tarnish as they are, you know, attempt to disrupt as they are, or possibly worse. But I do not fear, I do not fear it. Like I said, I move forward under God and my nation can see my nation, can see my heart and what I’m for. And that’s, that’s it. That’s like I move on and carry on.

TUCKER CARLSON: You’re really not afraid at all?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Not an iota.

TUCKER CARLSON: When do you have to make the decision about whether you want to formally enter politics?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Well, we believe the election will take place November 11th, so it’s a 60 day warmup prior to that. So I’m just going to keep, you know, requesting a democratic process to play out and allow the people to decide and see where it falls. You know, it’ll become more evident that they deny this, that we are not a democratic country and they’ll have to answer to their constituents at some stage. You know, there will be accountability, you know, it’s. How much are they going to be accountable for? They’ll have to decide and that’s it.

TUCKER CARLSON: You’ve described yourself as an employer. You said that a couple of times. What tell us about the businesses you employ people in.

CONOR MCGREGOR: I’ve got many businesses here in the country. I got many, I got about 300 staff all in. I’ve got public houses, I’ve got construction efforts going on building public houses.

TUCKER CARLSON: Meaning we would call them bars.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: Not public housing.

CONOR MCGREGOR: No. Yeah, no, no, yeah. A public pub is short for public house.

TUCKER CARLSON: Right.

CONOR MCGREGOR: So I’ve got public houses, I’ve got breweries, I’ve got companies also we’re brand building and I have also construction efforts where I’m building many social houses, houses towards the housing crisis that’s going on. I’m currently about 300 houses built already and you know, I’m closing in on, you know, my next ventures. About a thousand houses built. So I’m doing my part to help this housing crisis. I’ve always been doing that. And it is at a heavy cost, not gonna lie, it’s a heavy cost.

TUCKER CARLSON: What do you mean?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Like there is no profit in it, you know, it’s a, it’s a build and it’s, it’s, it’s for the people and that’s it.

TUCKER CARLSON: There’s no profit in building houses.

CONOR MCGREGOR: No profit in it. You know, for social housing. I’m getting my money, I get my money back if I’m lucky, you know, maybe a little, a little, a little sweetener, a little drink, we’ll say here in Ireland. Yeah. So. But for the stress it is causing and the time, it’s a. It’s a difficult task, but it’s, it’s worth it, you know, There was a time, there was one I done, I completed a build of eight houses. It was actually my very first one was maybe two years ago. Only I’ve. Only I’ve only I’m maybe four, three, four years ago, but it was in a part of Dublin called Santry and there was eight homes and I got them completed just before Christmas. So there were home, eight homeless families that were brought into their new forever home right before Christmas. And that filled me with so much energy to continue and go and do it.

And I went full steam ahead and like I said, now I’m in the process. I’ve got 300 strong now in construction, close to finish and, you know, more than a thousand being built already. And that’s with me, my own self able to do this with every block in my way, you know, as one individual citizen of Ireland, if I was to get in and to have influence, I really fancy my chances. I mean, the bar is so low. Every statistic, every metric is on the floor. Every metric is on the floor. I’d get in and I’d be able to be able to decrease our homelessness, you know, build our housing, you know, slow down the role of influx of illegal migration, control the spending. I fancy it.

Our country has not been run correct and it is clearly evident to everybody outside of the political paywall, everyone is aware of it and even those inside of the political paywall are also aware of it. However, they are being bullied, intimidated and threatened with their livelihood unless they go along with it. So a turn will happen, a shift will happen. I’m doing my part and I’m proud to do so and honoured to do so and I will continue to fight for my country and the future of the children of this nation. And that’s it.

TUCKER CARLSON: Do you really, sincerely, be honest, think that your beer is better than Guinness?

Conor McGregor’s Irish Stout Business

CONOR MCGREGOR: So it’s another level. It’s the world’s creamiest stout. Not only is it better tasting, it is better pricing. It is brewed right here in Dublin and there’s an employer of about 100 people in that brewery. It’s a fantastic brewery. And the Forge Brewery, you can go and visit it if you have time, but we will go and test it if you wish. I would fancy a blind taste test any day of the week. And I guarantee victory.

We have done amazing things with the stout to date. And it’s still only on the rise, but there have been many taste tests done. So there’s a couple of stouts. Guinness is the top at the minute. We are number two on the rise. And then there’s some other brands, you know, there’s some other great Irish brands. Morphy’s and Beamish. It’s a shared pot. A rising tide raises all ships.

The others are bullies. I wish to build up all our stouts and all our products because Ireland, we are world champions at making stout like we are the world champions at making whiskey. Put them all to the test on a blind taste test for Irish stout.

TUCKER CARLSON: Is this a little weird? I guess I didn’t realize that Guinness was an English company.

CONOR MCGREGOR: The Asia owned. Yes. And they were.

TUCKER CARLSON: Centuries of colonial oppression and they’re still selling their stout here.

CONOR MCGREGOR: You know, if you’re not held accountable or you’ve got, you know, you’re free to do as you will. That is what it is with Guinness. I’m a publican also, so I own pubs. So I deal with Guinness and I serve Guinness. I serve my competitor. No problem. We outsell at 10 to 1, 10 points to 1. We outsell it on site.

But, you know, other Republicans are dealing with Guinness distributors and they’re not friendly, they’re not supportive, because they’ve never had to be. And then when I came onto the scene with Forge Irish Stout, all of a sudden they start coming and shaking the publican’s hand a little bit differently.

TUCKER CARLSON: They start acting Irish.

CONOR MCGREGOR: They thought they were held accountable. They had to be. They had to be by the book. It was creating fairness. And then there was a hit job done on me and it kind of took me out of the market here in Ireland for a minute. And that’s kind of what happened. And it is what it is, you know, but I have the best stout in Ireland. Forged ourselves for sure.

TUCKER CARLSON: Interesting.

CONOR MCGREGOR: And you’re going to have one. I don’t drink there. You don’t drink any?

TUCKER CARLSON: No, I had a Guinness. No alcohol last night.

CONOR MCGREGOR: We can get you one of them. We’ve got that. We’ve got the zero zeros in on site for sure. We’ll get you one of them.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, it was okay.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah. That’s nice.

On Rosie O’Donnell and Immigration

TUCKER CARLSON: So in sad news, I know you said you’re a, you know, looking at the bright side kind of guy, but Rosie O’Donnell has moved here. If you’re president and you tackle the immigration crisis, and I do think Pakistan and India take a lot of the blame for it. Africa, but also. Rosie O’Donnell, like, would you deport her?

CONOR MCGREGOR: What is her criminal history? Has she got a criminal background? How did she enter the country? Did she enter the country illegally? Has she assimilated with our community? Does she hold our beliefs? Is she an upstanding member of our community? If she is not, well, then she’s got to go. You ain’t got to go home. You got to get the hell out of here.

But I don’t know Rosie O’Donnell from Adam, but, you know, I believe she’s a comedian. I seen her on our national TV. She spoke a bit ill of me. I don’t know, Rosie. She seems unhappy. She seems going through something at the moment, and I’m not the type of person to kick a person when they’re down. I wish for her, I believe she’s a comedian is what her craft is. I wish for her to find her happiness again. And that is it. That was what I could feel.

TUCKER CARLSON: She was going through something.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Even I could feel it for sure, I think. And I wish for her happiness and spread love in the world. That’s it.

On Ireland’s Spirituality

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, you’re a very decent man, I have to say. Last question. Do you think that Ireland is, like, famously a spiritual country? You know, your patron saint, Saint Patrick, after whom the day is named, you know, was a Christian leader. And you think of Ireland as like a very religious country. It’s not really anymore. Do you think it’s becoming more spiritually aware or less?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah, for sure. Do you see?

TUCKER CARLSON: You feel that?

CONOR MCGREGOR: Yeah, for sure. It’s spiritual warfare going on right here. War. 100%. Yes. And we fancy our chances. We fancy our chances in a big way.

TUCKER CARLSON: Me, too. Conor McGregor, thank you very much.

CONOR MCGREGOR: Tucker Carlson, thank you very much. That was awesome. Thank you.

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