President Trump took a shot at pundit Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host and one of his most reliable allies in the media, over the commentator’s criticism of the president’s posture toward Iran.
“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website Monday evening.
Trump’s attack on the longtime cable news host-turned-podcast and multimedia personality came just hours after reporters asked him about Carlson’s urging that the U.S. stay out of a quickly escalating war between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen,” the president said during a meeting with the British prime minister at the Group of Seven summit, an even he left early on Monday due to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
Carlson was a leading host at Fox for years, hosting a prime-time show that was a favorite program of the president and many of his followers.
After being fired by Fox in 2022, Carlson launched his own media company and digital show, hosting the president for his first episode and accompanying him along the 2024 campaign trail.
Carlson remains a large supporter of much of Trump’s agenda, but in recent days he has cautioned the president against allowing the U.S. to become involved in another war in the Middle East.
The pundit last week said Trump was “complicit” in Israel’s all-out war with Iran and called out “warmongers” whom he says were urging Trump to “direct U.S. military involvement in a war.”
Trump late Monday urged people to flee the city of Tehran as more Israeli military strikes are expected in the area in the coming days.
