Trump Ousts Tucker Carlson from MAGA Circle Following Controversial Iran Strike Remarks

Former President Donald Trump has announced that Tucker Carlson, the well-known conservative commentator, is no longer part of the MAGA movement. This decision follows Carlson’s recent criticism of Trump’s military actions in Iran, which Carlson labeled as “evil.”

A growing rift between Trump and Carlson has been evident, particularly concerning the recent strikes on Iran. Carlson, who has often voiced skepticism about U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts, took his criticism to a new level during a conversation with ABC News.

“The president’s decision was absolutely disgusting and evil,” Carlson stated during the interview. Despite his history of supporting Trump, Carlson did not hold back in expressing his disapproval.

In response, Trump remarked, “Tucker’s lost his way.”

The former president elaborated further in his interview with ABC News, saying, “I realized that long ago. Tucker is not part of MAGA. MAGA is about saving our country, making it great again, and putting America first. Tucker doesn’t embody any of these values. Frankly, he doesn’t have the insight to grasp that.”

Trump has trashed both Carlson and Megyn Kelly – typically staunch supporters of the president – for their anti-war stances. 

However, in an interview with Status News, Carlson said there were no hard feelings about Trump’s comments.  

‘There are times I get annoyed with Trump, right now definitely included, but I’ll always love him no matter what he says about me,’ he said. 

Donald Trump said he’s kicking Tucker Carlson out of MAGA after the former Fox News host ‘lost his way’ in calling the president’s Iran strikes ‘evil’

Trump and Carlson have been at odds over the attacks on Iran

Carlson has reportedly visited the White House three times in the last month to lobby Trump against attacking Iran.

But Trump said the commentator failed to sway him, and said in his interview this week: ‘[Carlson] can say whatever he wants, it has no impact on me.’ 

The President revealed he is not bothered by criticism of his military actions from the former Fox News anchors during an interview with The Inner Circle on Monday.

‘I think that MAGA is Trump – MAGA’s not the other two,’ Trump said of Kelly and Carlson, who have publicly questioned the rationale for war with Iran in recent days. 

‘MAGA wants to see our country thrive and be safe. And MAGA loves what I’m doing – every aspect of it,’ the President continued. 

‘This is a detour that we have to take in order to keep our country safe and keep other countries safe, frankly.’ 

Kelly has led criticism among conservatives over the war, saying that she believes the US was dragged into the conflict and that American soldiers are losing their lives ‘for Iran or Israel.’ 

Trump fired back that Kelly should ‘study her history book a little bit.’ 

‘MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that,’ Trump said

Trump fired back at conservative figures Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly for their opposition to his military strikes, saying they have ‘no impact’ on his decisions 

‘Megyn was opposed to me for years when I ran the first time and nothing stopped me,’ Trump said. ‘And so, you know, some people are against – and they always come back. She came all the way back.’

Kelly said on her SiriusXM show that she fears the US will become embroiled in yet another foreign war for years to come and questioned whether war with Iran is in America’s interests. 

‘Our government’s job is not to look out for Iran or for Israel. It’s to look out for us. And this feels very much to me like it is clearly Israel’s war,’ she said.   

Trump brushed off Kelly’s opposition in his phone interview on Monday, saying: ‘I guess she maybe doesn’t like the idea of this war, but I do because I have to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Iranians.’ 

‘I have to do what’s right, number one -and you can’t have Iran getting a nuclear weapon. That’s predominant to me,’ Trump explained.

It comes as the White House has struggled to contain criticism among Trump supporters and conservatives over the war, with many noting that Trump campaigned on bringing the US out of foreign conflicts. 

Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, once a MAGA darling, claimed that Trump had betrayed voters who supported him for his foreign policy platform during the election.

‘Thousands and thousands of Americans from my generation have been killed and injured in never-ending, pointless foreign wars, and we said no more. But we are freeing the Iranian people. Please,’ the former GOP lawmaker wrote on Saturday.

Carlson’s attack on Trump came just a week after the conservative commentator met with the president in the White House – but Trump said on Monday: ‘[Carlson] can say whatever he wants, it has no impact on me’

Carlson said there were no hard feelings about Trump’s comments. ‘There are times I get annoyed with Trump, right now definitely included, but I’ll always love him no matter what he says about me’

‘There are 93 million people in Iran, let them liberate themselves. But Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons. Yeah, sure.’

Vice President JD Vance, previously a staunch anti-interventionalist, attempted to characterize the conflict as ‘so different’ from disastrous conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the weekend. 

‘The President has clearly defined what he wants to accomplish. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long-term to never trying to rebuild the nuclear capability,’ Vance told Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. 

‘There’s just no way that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict with no clear end in sight and no clear objective. I think that means that we’re not going to get into the problems that we’ve had with Iraq and Afghanistan.’