Fox News host Tucker Carlson told the 2017 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference on Monday that Republicans in Washington, D.C. hate President Donald Trump more than Democrats do.
"All of them," Carlson said, referring to Republicans in the nation's capital. "You cannot overstate the degree to which Republicans in D.C. hate Donald Trump. I mean, they really hate him."
He said that D.C., a city he has lived in for most of his life, overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and former President Barack Obama in prior years.
"Every Prius on my street has an Obama sticker on it," Carlson said. "Ok?"
The crowd laughed.
"I mean, they come that way from the factory but they haven't taken them off," he joked as the audience continued to laugh and cheer.
Carlson said that even as much as congressional Democrats cannot stand Trump, Republicans cannot stand him even more.
"But even–and so, of course, they hate Trump because they're like, 'Wow, who is this guy?'" he said. "The Republicans hate him more."
To drive his point home, Carlson compared Trump to Idi Amin, a former president of Uganda in the 1970s who ran a regime of horror, which included human rights abuses and "terrorizing the general public through the various internal security forces he organized ... whose main purpose was to eliminate those who opposed his regime," according to History.com.
"Idi Amin would get a warmer welcome in our dog park, OK, than Donald Trump would, were he to venture into Northwest D.C., which being wise, he will not," Carlson said.