This afternoon, Jonathan Karl quoted President Trump criticizing Tucker Carlson. After Karl baited him, President Trump was critical of Tucker, although he likely meant every word.
President Trump had Tucker at the White House recently, and JD Vance has tried to maintain his friendship with him, but Tucker is not someone you can count on if you violate one of his beliefs.
Karl wrote on X:
“In a lengthy conversation just now, President Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson, who called the Iran war ‘absolutely disgusting and evil.'”
“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told me. “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.”
Tucker is smart enough. He’s a pacifist, and he’s anti-Israel and antisemitic.
The Jonathan Karls are having a field day with this war, dividing Republicans.
Karl reached out to former Trump allies who are critical of the war in Iran:
JUST IN: President Trump SLAPS around Tucker Carlson in an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl after Carlson labeled the war in Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.”
Trump: “Tucker has lost his way. I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country.… pic.twitter.com/34nh2TkG8q
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) March 5, 2026
Donald “Benedict” Trump promised NO NEW WARS; not small ones, not big ones and NO Regime Change ones either! Operation Epic Stupidity is going to cost Hundreds of Billions of dollars and possibly trigger chaos and civil war next door to Nuclear Armed “Muslim” Pakistan.
Tucker was MAGA long before Donald Trump changed his political party affiliation from Democrat to Republican to run for President! Tucker Carlson is more aligned with every core belief of the MAGA voter; Donald Trump can no longer say that.
Tucker Carlson is not MAGA and likely never was, even if he claimed to be. He has become a nobody who exists in a political nowhere land.
“Tucker is smart enough”
There is a vast difference between high intellectual potential, and the discernment of wisdom that can separate objective from subjective reality.
As a Christian, I would suggest, knowing God’s truth and being guided by the Holy Spirit into wisdom through the Word is the key.