Tucker Carlson took to the stage at TPUSA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa to call out the Trump administration for grandstanding rather than affecting change.

Carlson, 56, made the comments Friday, accusing conservatives of failing to deliver on campaign promises or tackling America’s biggest problems.

The former Fox host’s fervent speech received surprising praise from progressives who flooded the video with positive comments.

Carlson honed in on Trump’s posturing in the Middle East, as cities like New York and LA have been hung out to dry – all while the US becomes unaffordable for normal families.

‘I don’t know, it kind feels like you’re feeding me appetizers,’ an emotional Carlson had told audience members. ‘At some point, I want to look around and see a better country. I want to see a country I recognize.’

The rest of the speech involved angst he claimed conservatives have created, at the expense of everyday citizens. It also honed in on the party’s recent revolt against identity politics – one Carlson framed as meaningless but also meant to distract.

He also told audience members that Jeffrey Epstein was likely working for Israeli intelligence, earning cheers in the process.

‘Wait why do I agree with like 6 things he said???’ one person wrote.

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Tucker Carlson, 56, made the comments at TPUSA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa Friday, accusing the Trump administration of failing to deliver on campaign promises

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Progressives, in turn, offered praise, flooding the former Fox host’s social media with positive comments

‘Serious heat right there,’ a fan wrote on Instagram.

‘Completely agree,’ another user wrote, as many others expressed surprise at agreeing with Carlson.

One person even suggested that the pundit was sounding more like he was hitting the campaign trail for a White House run.

‘Is Tucker sounding like a presidential candidate?’ asked the Instagram user.

His rant argued that ‘If you deny people what they actually want long enough, and instead substitute things that you claim they should want,’ the administration should see scrutiny.

‘Like, bombing Iran; you know, I’m not for Iran,’ Carlson said.

‘Or you spend all day telling me that it’s so important that boys not play on girls soccer teams, or whatever – I agree.

‘I hate the trans stuff passionately,’ Carlson admitted. ‘I think you should keep the boys off girls’ soccer teams.’

He then proclaimed: ‘I [just] don’t want to see people sleeping on the sidewalk. I don’t want to see people ODing on drugs.’

‘I want to know where those drugs are coming from. Why can’t you stop it?’

‘You’ve got the US military. Don’t you have Seal Team Six? What are they doing today?

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He also told audience members that Jeffrey Epstein was likely working for Israeli intelligence, days after a memo from the Justice Department and FBI on Monday stood by feds’ conclusion that the disgraced financier who used to pal around with Trump committed suicide

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‘Why are my cities disgusting?’ Carlson flat-out asked, as he tore down Trump for grandstanding on issues like identity politics while failing to deliver on important promises

‘Why are my cities disgusting?’ Carlson flat-out asked. It smells like weed and halal food.

‘And you’re lecturing me about how it’s a great moral victory that I kicked the boys off the girls’ soccer team? Good. I’m so glad. But let’s do the real stuff like making New York livable. And creating an economy where my kids can have kids.’

He then brought up the focal point of a brewing civil war between conservatives – the so-called ‘Epstein Files’, which Trump repeatedly promised to release in full during his campaign.

Last Monday, the Justice Department released findings stating that Epstein never even kept a ‘client list’ and confirmed that he killed himself in jail.

The announcement earned harsh criticism from leading MAGA figures including Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Laura Loomer as being not only a coverup, but  a clear backtrack.

‘The real question was not, was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo?’ Carlson told onlookers of the disgraced financier who used to pal around with Trump in the 80s and 90s.

‘The real question was, ‘Why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where was the money coming from?”

‘I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American,’ Carlson claimed. ‘That foreign government is Israel.’

Earlier in the day, it was revealed that FBI boss Kash Patel, his deputy Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi were duking it out behind the scenes, over the administration’s handling of the release of the files.

The first two have reportedly demanded Bondi’s resignation, after she maintained the Epstein case was closed.

Bondi’s widely panned claim was ‘too much’ for Carlson, he told the conference.

‘Criticizing the behavior of a government agency doesn’t make you a hater. It makes you a free person; it makes you a citizen.

‘You’re allowed to do that because you’re not a slave.’

‘You are trying to make me shut up because I am a ‘bigot,’ like the liberals did seven months ago and that is why we voted them out,’ Carlson continued. ‘I’m not putting up with it. I voted against it and I will not tolerate it.’

In the end, Carlson expressed frustration over ‘normal people watching a certain class of people getting away with everything.’

‘Every single time,’ he said.