President Trump cast Tucker Carlson out of his Make America Great Again movement following the conservative talking head’s loud criticism of the US and Israeli assault on Iran.
“Tucker has lost his way,” the commander-in-chief told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl on Thursday. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”
The comments came after Carlson recently called the strikes on Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.”
The ex-Fox News host, now a podcaster, has also been outspoken in criticizing the Trump administration on issues like the Epstein files, the war in Ukraine and more.
Carlson’s previous MAGA creds include meeting with Trump at the White House many times. He was also a primetime speaker at the Republican National Convention in 2024.
Along with consigning the podcast host to the land of MAGA has-beens, Trump on Thursday took a victory lap on his Iran decision.
He called the operation a success and said people have been “loving it,” though polls have been mixed.
“They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back,” he said of Iran.
Like Carlson, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green has taken a decidedly anti-Trump turn as of late, blasting the president for his administration’s handling of the Epstein files and raging over the decision to attack Iran.
“The Trump admin actually asked in a poll how many casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran??? How about ZERO you bunch of sick f–king liars,” the Georgia Republican recently wrote on X. “We voted for America First and ZERO wars.”
She also accused Trump of reneging on campaign promises to avoid foreign entanglements, the latest in a series of broadsides against the president.
Trump hasn’t held back in his criticism of Greene, calling her decision last year to leave Congress “great news” for the US.
Many Republicans have been much more supportive of Trump’s decision to launch the military operation.
“The end of the largest state sponsor of terrorism is upon us. God bless President Trump, our military and our allies in Israel,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently said on social media.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) provided a rare Dem voice praising the president’s move
“President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region,” he said Saturday.
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