It’s the kind of headline you wouldn’t expect to see in 2025: Trump slams Tucker Carlson. But here we are.
On Monday, Donald Trump lashed out at his longtime ally, Tucker Carlson, calling him “kooky” for daring to question U.S. support for Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Carlson, never one to shy away from controversy, had been openly criticizing what he called “warmongers” in Washington, warning that the drive to support Israeli aggression could tear the MAGA movement apart at the seams.
“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Trump shouted—on social media, of course.
This came after Israel launched a wave of attacks on Iran’s uranium enrichment and reactor sites, claiming it was a necessary preemptive strike. Carlson, clearly unconvinced, responded with a sharp rebuke on his show. His argument? This isn’t a matter of picking sides between Israel and Iran—it’s a deeper, more dangerous divide between warmongers and peacemakers.
Carlson’s critique hit even harder during a recent interview with Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs. Together, they pulled the curtain back on decades of American foreign policy that, in Sachs’ words, “has been doing Israel’s bidding for 30 years.”
Sachs reminded viewers of the infamous post-9/11 plan revealed by retired General Wesley Clark—a list of seven countries the U.S. aimed to “take out” in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finally Iran. All, he argued, were labeled enemies of Israel and handled accordingly.
Carlson didn’t stop there. He warned that this latest escalation could “blow up” Trump’s MAGA coalition entirely—a coalition built on promises to end endless wars, not start new ones. In a chat with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, both men echoed a chilling warning: the American people are sick of foreign entanglements, and 90% of them are not on board with another forever war.
Bannon said it plainly—Trump is now in a showdown with the deep state, and siding with Israel’s military ambitions could cost him everything.
So what happens next? A civil war inside the MAGA movement? Or a wake-up call for conservatives who once prided themselves on putting America First?
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