Sooner or later, every month or two, Tucker Carlson will be openly racist.  I believe he remains a sometime confidant of Donald Trump to this day.

1. A public record of racist rhetoric and private messages

Multiple outlets have documented Carlson using racist, homophobic and demeaning language in archived radio and TV material from 2006–2011, compiled and publicized by Media Matters and reported across mainstream outlets, which captured him describing Iraqis, African Americans and immigrants with dehumanizing slurs and tropes ^{[1] [2] [7]}. Beyond those recordings, reporting from The New York Times and multiple outlets summarized in the press shows a racist text message Carlson sent on Jan. 7, 2021 — quoting that “It’s not how white men fight” — which sources say alarmed Fox’s leadership and was a factor in his April 2023 ouster ^{[3] [8] [9]}.

2. Does Carlson “become openly racist every month or two”? The evidence and its limits

The claim that Carlson will be “openly racist” on a fixed monthly cadence is an assertion about frequency and pattern that the supplied reporting does not quantify; outlets catalogue numerous episodes of racist rhetoric across years and high‑profile bursts of offensive commentary, but none of the sources establishes a regular monthly or bi‑monthly schedule of such incidents ^{[1] [10]}. What the record does show is repeated instances over time — long‑running themes (e.g., anti‑immigrant “replacement” rhetoric), resurfaced archival comments, and private messages — that together create a pattern of recurring racist or racially charged statements, even if a strict periodicity cannot be proven from the available reporting ^{[10] [11]}.

3. Denials, defenses and media strategy around allegations

Carlson and his defenders have pushed back: he has publicly denied being a racist and Fox/Carlson sought to redirect scrutiny onto Media Matters when audio surfaced, arguing the focus should be on the accuser or the context ^{[10] [7]}. Those denials and counternarratives coexist in the record with independent compendia of his remarks and the redacted text in litigation, which critics interpret as corroboration of a sustained pattern; both positions are present in the reporting and constrain an unambiguous verdict based only on public records ^{[7] [3]}.

4. Access to Trump: confidant or occasional interlocutor?

Several outlets describe Carlson as retaining significant influence with Donald Trump after his Fox departure, calling him a confidant who could phone the former president and play a role in Republican politics; his recent White House presence and photographs of lunches with Trump and administration officials have been widely reported as evidence of access ^{[5] [4]}. That access is not absolute proof of constant counsel: reporting also documents moments of public disagreement and tension between Trump and Carlson, and administration statements sometimes describe Carlson’s presence as informal or observational rather than official, indicating the relationship is real but irregular and politically contested ^{[6] [12]}.

5. The political dynamic and stakes

Carlson’s recurring controversies have political effects: his rhetoric has been linked by critics to mainstreaming of “replacement” narratives and to fractures within the GOP over antisemitism and foreign policy, and his public proximity to Trump fuels debates about influence and legitimacy inside conservative circles; conversely, supporters frame him as an independent voice challenging elites, illustrating how reactions to his statements are politically polarized ^{[11] [13] [14]}. The net of the reporting: Carlson has repeatedly produced racially charged commentary and retains episodic access to Trump, but neither a mechanical schedule of racist outbursts nor a single, fixed status as Trump’s daily confidant is established by the sources provided ^{[1] [3] [4]}.