- Tucker Carlson said Vladimir Putin was “a couple hours late” for their Kremlin interview this week.
- Making people wait is a power move often used by the Russian president.
- Putin launched into a lengthy revisionist history of Russia that Carlson said “annoyed” him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled a power move on Tucker Carlson that set the stage for the former Fox News host getting steamrolled.
In a post-interview reaction clip, Carlson said Putin was “a couple hours late” for his two-hour interview with the Russian leader in the Kremlin this week.
Making people wait is a tactic Putin has regularly used as a power play to show dominance over his guests, including world leaders.
Putin had former President Donald Trump wait for an hour before a summit in Helsinki in 2018.
He was about 50 minutes behind schedule for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2015, Reuters reported.
And he also held German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting for more than four hours at a private lunch in 2014, Radio Free Europe reported.
Being late wasn’t anywhere near the power move of telling Tucker that he’s going to do a 30-second history talk, then rambling about Genghis Khan and Russian princes from the Middle Ages for half an hour, then do another 15 minutes on 20th century history before even remotely beginning to answer the question.
Tucker kept trying to get him to say something relevant to the war, while Putin dismissed him with a hand wave to keep talking about a war with Poland in the 17th century and then World Wars 1 and 2. Truly bizarre interview.
I’m checking the interview right now. Putin just doesn’t give a fuck about an interview, he’s just rambling about whatever he wants to talk about.