Fox News host Mark Levin launched a scathing attack against several prominent right-wing figures on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, calling former Trump adviser Steve Bannon a “fat slob” and a “pathological liar” while also targeting white nationalist Nick Fuentes and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson during his radio broadcast.
The host of the Fox News weekend show “Life, Liberty & Levin” unleashed the tirade after Bannon questioned Levin’s MAGA credentials on his own program, “War Room,” which airs on Real America’s Voice. Bannon had claimed that Levin initially hated Trump and only supported him when it benefited him personally, adding that Levin was “nothing but hot air.”
Levin fired back during his Westwood One radio show, specifically targeting Bannon’s recent pledge to denaturalize Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s newly elected mayor. According to Levin, “You got that fat slob Bannon going on with his next cause—he’s going to denaturalize Mamdani. No, he’s not. He’s a pathological liar. He’s stolen enough money from you and has deceived enough of you. You should blow him off.”
The reference to stolen money relates to Bannon’s February guilty plea in New York state court to a felony count of defrauding donors who contributed to a private fundraising effort to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. While Bannon received a three-year conditional discharge and avoided jail time or restitution payments, he is now barred from running charities or fundraising in New York.
Levin’s attacks extended beyond Bannon to include Fuentes, the white nationalist podcaster who recently conducted a friendly interview with Tucker Carlson that divided the right-wing media ecosystem. During his broadcast, Levin challenged Fuentes directly, saying he likes to say he will deport Levin and dared him to try it. The Fox News host called him a “little punk” and a “little b******” while challenging him to a one-on-one confrontation.
The verbal sparring had kicked off the night before when Fuentes appeared on his own show and said he would not fight Levin because he did not want to “hit a girl.”
Carlson also came under fire during Levin’s broadcast. Levin accused the former Fox News personality of making tens of millions of dollars while being “in bed with the wrong people” and only pretending to be “America First.” He pointed out that the Council on American-Islamic Relations had recently quoted Carlson, suggesting questionable associations.
In a broader statement during his show, Levin explained his motivation for speaking out against these figures, stating: “I’m fighting like hell against the Tucker Carlsons and the Fuenteses and the Bannons and the others who are myopic, who — they’re dancing with Hitler and Stalin and bigots and racists and segregationists.”
He warned that such figures pose an existential threat to the Republican Party and conservative movement. Levin emphasized that embracing racist and bigoted rhetoric would lead to massive electoral defeat from which the party might never recover. He urged listeners to reject what he called “freaks, frauds, and phonies” who are getting rich off bigotry, racism, and antisemitism.
The Fox News host invoked Ronald Reagan’s electoral success and Trump’s 2024 victory as examples of how Republicans win by bringing together diverse coalitions, including blue-collar voters, minorities, and women. He argued that attacking Christians, Jews, women, and minorities based on race would destroy the party’s electoral prospects.
Levin called on politicians in Washington and state governments to join him in pushing back against these influences. He expressed pride in seeing more podcasters, radio hosts, and television personalities speaking out against what he characterized as dangerous elements within the conservative movement.
This public clash represents an escalation in ongoing tensions between different factions of the right-wing media landscape. The confrontation between Levin and Bannon is not their first, as the two have previously sparred over various issues, including America’s involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts.
Carlson had previously denied allegations that he received payments from foreign governments, with his network’s CEO stating categorically that neither Carlson nor his network had accepted money from Qatar or any other foreign country.
