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Tucker Carlson has likened the warm reception Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky received from Congress to applause commonly commanded by Josef Stalin, juxtaposing clips of the two leaders during an impassioned rant Thursday.

Criticizing the House of Representatives for 'clapping like seals' during the much-seen speech Wednesday, Carlson laid into both Democrats and Republicans for blindly supporting Zelensky's call to stand up to Russian aggression.

Carlson's spiel - which aired on his eponymous program - came after the famously conservative commentator accused Zelensky Wednesday of dressing like a 'manager of a strip club demanding money' - ignoring the US' own border woes. 

The on-air tirade lasted more than 20 minutes, and saw Carlson, 53, compare the Ukrainian leader to the longtime boss of the Soviet Union, airing a clip of his last speech to Kremlin's Congress equivalent in 1952 to do so.

The brief snippet - which was shown directly after a clip of Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and hundreds of others frantically applauding Zelensky - showed a similar response to the Russian dictator, who put his own people in prison camps. In Stalin's Soviet Union, failure to applaud the leader would often be considered treason.

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Before making the comparison, Carlson - who has already been hailed as a hero on Russian TV for his critiques of Zelensky, who has already received $68billion from the White House but wants $37.7 billion more - began his comparison by tearing into both parties, remarking how they clapped 'like seals' after hearing him leader speak.

'But here’s the interesting thing,' Carlson proceeded to point out. 'Almost every person in the room clapped like a seal.'

He went on: 'No matter what that man said – “Send me more money; I command you, send me more money! We’re taking care of it in the most responsible ways” – they applaud. All of them. Almost like they have to.'

Carlson then marveled how despite there being 435 members of Congress, ranging from the most do-nothing of Democrats to the most hawkish Republicans, no one dare to question Zelensky's appeal for more funding.

'Now, there are 435 members of the house of representatives - Republicans and Democrats – and [they] famously they don’t get along and they don’t agree on anything. They can’t even pass a budget, because they disagree on everything.'

'And yet,' Carlson continued, 'when a foreign leader shows up in cargo pants to tell them lies and give them orders, they all applaud. That’s pretty weird behavior in a democracy if you think about it.'