Tucker Carlson delivered a profanity-laced farewell to Donald Trump, further straining their already tense relationship amid the escalating conflict with Iran.
The former Fox News host has emerged as a prominent critic of Trump’s foreign policy agenda, particularly taking issue with the recent military actions against Tehran.
While making an appearance on the Jack Neel Podcast, Carlson accused Trump of projecting false strength through empty threats as the conflict with Iran persisted.
“He attempted to bluff his way out of the situation,” Carlson remarked, criticizing the President’s approach following the targeted killing of Ayatollah Khomeini, which failed to achieve Iran’s surrender.
“After what felt like the 400th post on Truth Social, the global consensus was evident: this man is not strong; he is weak,” Carlson asserted.
‘Strong people don’t brag about how strong they are. They just punch you in the face and end the conversation.’
He then compared Trump to a boxer who was all talk and taunting but ‘you don’t have to worry about’ when they make threats, before sending him a blunt message.
‘Shut up, b****. I don’t take you seriously. I’m not being mean but like, come on,’ Carlson said of Trump.
Tucker Carlson ordered Donald Trump to ‘shut up, b****’ over his ’empty threats’ on the Iran War
The former Fox News anchor has been one of the most public critics from the right of Trump’s foreign policy, coming to a head with the strikes on Tehran
Despite his complaints about the war, Carlson maintains that he still likes Trump as a person.
‘I don’t hate Trump. I’ve always liked Trump. I just am a shallow man. I like vulgar jokes. I’m easily entertained. I laugh easily like other people. I like almost everybody. He’s hardly the most evil person I like,’ Carlson said.
‘I just grieve for what his decisions in the Middle East have done to the country.’
Carlson has long supported Trump and even spoke at his infamous Madison Square Garden rally in support of his return to the White House in 2024.
However, Carlson appears to have defected from Trump in the months since the war began.
In an April 15 clip from the Tucker Carlson Show, which is the former Fox host’s popular independent podcast, Carlson became biblical in his criticism.
‘Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods, and exalting himself above them,’ Carlson said in the clip.
‘Could this be the Antichrist?’ he then said. ‘Well, who knows?’
Despite his complaints about the war, Carlson maintains that he still likes Trump as a person
Carlson has long supported Trump and even spoke at his infamous Madison Square Garden rally in support of his return to the White House in 2024
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Carlson even issued a groveling on-air apology to his fans for ever having supported Trump
‘I do think it’s, like, a moment to wrestle with our own consciences,’ Carlson said on his podcast.
‘We’ll be tormented by it for a long time,’ he lamented, his brow deeply furrowed. ‘I will be and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.’
Amid the mudslinging, Carlson’s son Buckley, 29, stepped down as deputy press secretary to JD Vance, although the White House said the move had long been planned.
Trump lashed out at Carlson and several other right wing critics in a Truth Social post.
‘I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social recently. ‘Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs.’
Carlson’s stark abandonment of Trump has poured kerosene on the fire already engulfing right-wing circles.
Conservative media titan Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of the Daily Wire, told the Daily Mail: ‘We already know what Tucker thinks of Trump. He told his colleagues he hated him “passionately,” then endorsed him anyway and helped staff the administration. He isn’t sorry. He’s a guy who made a bet that didn’t pay off and now wants his regret to be the story.’
That is a reference to messages Carlson sent to a Fox News colleague in 2021, saying he ‘hated’ Trump and that there ‘isn’t really an upside’ to him.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment.