Trump: Tucker Carlson Is Not ‘America First’
The Iran war has exacerbated tensions between President Trump and Tucker Carlson, writes Eli Lake. (Illustration by The Free Press; images via Getty)
A festering dispute broke out into the open as Trump took aim at the media personality.
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One of the first political casualties of President Donald Trump’s second Iran war is his relationship with populist movement leader and social media broadcaster Tucker Carlson. In an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Trump cast Tucker out of the MAGA tent.
“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told 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.”
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