President Trump took a shot at pundit Tucker Carlson, a former Fox Information host and one among his most dependable allies within the media, over the commentator’s criticism of the president’s posture towards Iran.
“Someone please clarify to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” Trump wrote on his Reality Social web site Monday night.
Trump’s assault on the longtime cable information host-turned-podcast and multimedia persona got here simply hours after reporters requested him about Carlson’s urging that the U.S. keep out of a shortly escalating battle between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a tv community and say it so that folks hear,” the president said throughout a gathering with the British prime minister on the Group of Seven summit, a fair he left early on Monday as a result of ongoing disaster within the Center East.
Carlson was a number one host at Fox for years, internet hosting a prime-time present that was a favourite program of the president and lots of of his followers.
After being fired by Fox in 2022, Carlson launched his personal media firm and digital present, internet hosting the president for his first episode and accompanying him alongside the 2024 marketing campaign path.
Carlson stays a big supporter of a lot of Trump’s agenda, however in current days he has cautioned the president towards permitting the U.S. to turn out to be concerned in one other battle within the Center East.
The pundit final week mentioned Trump was “complicit” in Israel’s all-out battle with Iran and referred to as out “warmongers” whom he says had been urging Trump to “direct U.S. navy involvement in a battle.”
Trump late Monday urged folks to flee the town of Tehran as extra Israeli navy strikes are anticipated within the space within the coming days.