Tucker Carlson launches most vicious attack on Trump yet after president said he could become ‘prime minister of ISRAEL’
Tucker Carlson attacked Donald Trump on Wednesday for “bragging about his popularity” among Israelis.
The former Fox News host played a clip of Trump telling reporters earlier in the day that he had a 99 percent approval rating in this far-flung country and so he should consider “running for prime minister.”
Carlson, 57, immediately attacked the president for ‘boasting his popularity’ in a foreign country.
‘There’s no mention of the fact that it’s 35 percent in the United States,’ Carlson said. ‘The people he promised to represent, to fight for, to side with in every conflict, internal and external.’
Carlson claimed that Israel lowered Trump’s domestic approval ratings.
‘It’s the same country that brought us to war,’ he continued. After years of ‘America first’ policies, Trump had called for an attack on Iran together with Israel in February.
Carlson, a former Trump supporter, has since made his opposition known.
‘Last year didn’t make America great again. “Over the past year, America’s power has diminished at a rate some of us could not have imagined,” he said Wednesday, calling the perceived turning point a “cold-hearted globalist betrayal.”
A visibly angry Tucker Carlson played a clip of the president on the Wednesday episode of his podcast
“So maybe after I do that, I’ll go to Israel and run for prime minister,” Trump told reporters in Maryland before attending the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony in Connecticut.
The jab was a quote from Trump’s 2020 speech in which he criticized the Obama administration for “you.”[ding] Our youth will fight these crazy, endless wars.’
“That’s exactly what it was,” Carlson said after watching the clip. ‘One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another.’
‘Charlie Kirk was very upset about this. He clearly explained why he was upset about this and sincerely believed Trump would change it. People like Trump and Thomas Massie,” Carlson continued.
Massie is an outgoing Kentucky Republican who lost his congressional re-election bid this week after repeated criticisms of Israel.
Another Republican, Israel supporter Ed Gallrein, won the primary with Trump’s support.
‘It’s hard to imagine what happened [Kirk] Carlson said he would “think about Donald Trump’s remarks that (the man he voted for and campaigned for) went to pray in church on the morning of the inauguration, and what he would think about the Donald Trump on display yesterday.”
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, an Israel supporter who worked with Kirk on his last college trip, said: Semaphore He said the activist was frustrated by the number of Israel-related questions he encountered on college campuses before his death.
A Houthi soldier stands guard in front of a digital billboard featuring Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a pro-Islam parade in Yemen on Monday. The two countries launched attacks on Iran in February, alienating conservatives like Carlson
“He just wanted to talk about America,” Wolicki continued at the time.
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones also parted ways with the president over his decision to go to war.
Asked about Carlson’s latest comments, a White House spokesman said: ‘The most important thing for the American people is to have a Commander in Chief who takes decisive action to eliminate threats and keep them safe; That’s exactly what President Trump did in his successful Operation Epic Rage.
‘President Trump proudly fulfilled his promise to deny the Iranian regime the ability to develop nuclear weapons; That’s what this noble operation has achieved.
‘The President is making these incredibly important national security decisions with the best interests of the American people in mind, not based on volatile opinion polls or podcast hosts.’
