He is not a racist.
“It’s not a question of ‘we found the most qualified person who happens to look this way,’” Mr Carlson said. “What you’re saying is ‘we found a person who looks this way, who by the way, may be qualified.’ That would send a very clear message that you don’t like the country you run and you don’t care about the institutions that its ancestors built.”
He added: “Do you want to live in that country? Most people don't, of all colours. They think you should be elevated in America based on what you do, on the choices not on how you were born, not on your DNA, because that's Rwanda.”