Probably because of his actual thoughts/feelings about trump that came out in discovery during the lawsuit. He stated he hates trump and said the four years of his presidency were wasted with nothing accomplished.
That doesn’t play well on a network that realized from the backlash of their viewers when calling Arizona for Biden, they must wax trumps balls to survive.
Some of the texts in case one lives under a rock (or solely gets news from fox):
In private text messages Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson said he was done with Trump and his unfounded claims of a rigged election.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” he texted an unidentified person.
“I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this,” he added.
Carlson’s private texts starkly contrasted what he had been telling viewers during his primetime show.
“We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest,” he wrote in another text message, referring to the “last four years.” “But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”
