Trump Escalates His Feud With Tucker Carlson Over Israel And Iran

trump tucker carlsonUS President Donald Trump escalated his feud with his one-time vocal ally Tucker Carlson, telling reporters on Monday that no one is paying attention to the former Fox News host or his concerns about Israel’s military action in 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 after Carlson, a highly watched Fox News personality until his 2023 firing, accused Trump of being “complicit” in Israel’s attacks on Iran.President Trump responds to Tucker Carlson’s comments that he is complicit in the war. Trump: "I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen." pic.twitter.com/l5rXVSYVfY— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 16, 2025Carlson raised his concerns in a Friday newsletter, lashing out at Trump after Israel launched attacks that killed hundreds of Iranians on Thursday.“While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the US at the center of last night’s events,” Carlson wrote.“They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep,” his newsletter continued.Trump responded on Saturday in an Atlantic interview.“Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that,” Trump said, adding: “For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.”Trump and Carlson shake hands during a 2024 campaign stop.Carlson remained firm in his stance during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s podcast on Monday.“You’re not going to convince me that the Iranian people are my enemy,” he said to Bannon, who served as one of Trump’s chief strategists during his first term in the White House.The US is “on the cusp of entering a war on behalf of a political leader in a faraway country that’s going to really hurt my country,” Carlson continued, adding: “I just don’t want my country to be further weakened or destroyed by another one of these wars.”Related...Retired US Major General Rains On Trump's Military Parade Following 'No Kings' Protest SpeechTrump Says Kicking Russia Out Of G7 Was A 'Very Big Mistake'‘It’s Possible’: Trump Won’t Rule Out Future US Involvement In Israel-Iran Conflict

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