Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson has asserted that Meghan Markle doesn't represent Black Americans.
Carlson's comment about the royal came during a joint interview with Piers Morgan in Saudi Arabia.
While discussing the presidential election, Carlson claimed that opposers of now-President Donald Trump tried to prop up figures like Markle to represent certain groups, like the Black community. The ex-Fox News host asserted that their efforts failed because Markle doesn't represent Black people.
"It was a whole class of people whose cart was being overturned by Trump and they used, kind of, symbolic figures like Meghan Markle, as you found out, as their proxies to hold power but those proxies never represented the groups they supposedly represented," Carlson told Morgan.
"Meghan Markle does not represent Black people in the United States, I don't know if you knew that?" he added.
Morgan agreed with Carlson's sentiment, saying Markle only represents "a very elite hypocritical group of people."
"No question she doesn't," Morgan responded to Carlson's take. "Don't worry, I'm very familiar. She doesn't represent anybody other than a very elite hypocritical group of people who are really going to go down in history as the most hypocritical group of people ever."
Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, didn't comment on the recent presidential election, during which Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris.
At one point during the interview, Morgan also discussed how he was forced out of his job as a presenter on "Good Morning Britain" following another comment he made about Markle. Morgan previously questioned Markle for having suicidal thoughts as she faced negative media attention during her pregnancy with her son Prince Archie.
"When I left Good Morning Britain," Morgan told Carlson, "and got Markled as I call it, you gave me the chance to have my say afterwards. You were the first one to ask."
"That was the most insane thing I've ever seen," Carlson responded, "and when that happened to you I thought to myself, I actually asked one of my producers 'well what did he do?' and they told me that he like publicly doubted Meghan Markle's saintliness or something, like I don't think she's actually Jesus."
"I've never felt happier professionally than I do right now. I own my YouTube channel, I own, you know, everything about it. The only person that can fire me is myself," Morgan said.
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