Tucker Carlson used his Sunday appearance at the Doha Forum to deliver a patriotic mic-drop. While speaking with Qatar’s Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Carlson didn’t just deny the media’s favorite smear about being funded by Qatar—he went a step further and announced he’s buying property there.
Yes, you read that right. The former Fox News powerhouse looked the critics straight in the eye and said: “I have been criticized as being a tool of Qatar, and I just want to say, which you already know, which is I have never taken anything from your country and don’t plan to. I am, however, tomorrow buying a place in Qatar.”
The crowd gave him a warm, if modest, applause—clearly appreciating someone who doesn’t bend the knee to D.C. groupthink. Carlson explained the move with the kind of clarity that triggers all the right people: “I like the city, I think it’s beautiful, but also to make a statement that I’m an American and a free man and I’ll be wherever I want to be.”
And it wasn’t exactly a sleepy forum, either. Sharing the stage across the event were the likes of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr., and even Bill Gates—plus media figures from CNN to Breitbart. A genuine diplomatic circus.
Earlier in the interview, Carlson pressed Prime Minister Al Thani on accusations from hawks like Sen. Ted Cruz, who has labeled Qatar a “terror state” because of its connection to Hamas. Al Thani pushed back, claiming the ties weren’t Qatar’s idea in the first place. According to him, the U.S. and Israel asked Qatar over a decade ago to maintain channels with Hamas, even hosting some of their leaders, and that this communication helped end the recent War in Gaza.
But the Prime Minister didn’t sugarcoat the aftermath. Asked about rebuilding Gaza, he bluntly declared Qatar won’t be footing the bill: “We are not the ones who are going to write the check to rebuild what others destroyed.” And doubling down even harder, he added: “When you are talking about Gaza, Israel flattened this land.”
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The announcement spurred reactions that escalated over the weekend:
Mark Levin started on X with, “Qatarlson is Qatar’s cheap date. He’s a Qatar firster.”
He continued, responding to a controversial post from Neil Patel. “Imbecilic, elitist Patel. A photo that will live in infamy.”
Greetings from the booodthirsty, terror-supporting slave state of Qatar. @marklevinshow @tedcruz @LauraLoomer pic.twitter.com/PwWCM3pDwR
— Neil Patel (@NeilPatelTDC) December 7, 2025
“I wonder what the 9/11 families think of this. Qatar is also a country that backs the Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, etc., and is destroying our educational system, as this reprobate parties on. It’s a country that enslaves thousands, as the royal family has never worked a day,” Levin wrote. “But Patel doesn’t care as the regime feeds him full of the best food and booze, and houses him in the best hotel with perfumed soap and shampoo, with their blood money. This is his ‘let them eat cake’ moment. Americans will grow impatient and disgusted by all this monarchy crap and the flaunting of wealth and corruption by our ruling class elites, and of course, the funding of terrorism and anti-Americanism, in the not too distant future. This photo crystallizes the cynical abandonment of populism and the America First movement by many who exploit it. We, the people, won’t put up with it. It’s just a matter of time until it unravels.”
