{"id":3863,"date":"2025-06-17T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:40:52","slug":"trump-calls-tucker-carlson-kooky-over-israel-iran-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/trump-calls-tucker-carlson-kooky-over-israel-iran-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Tucker Carlson \u2018kooky\u2019 over Israel-Iran position"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conservative talk show host has been criticizing \u201cwarmongers\u201d who advocate US involvement in the hostilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump blasted conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson on Monday, calling him \u201ckooky\u201d<\/em> after the journalist questioned Washington\u2019s support for Israel following its strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

Israel launched attacks on Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment and reactor sites starting last Friday, claiming it was a preemptive move to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Carlson, normally a Trump ally, condemned supporters of West Jerusalem\u2019s military escalation and hosted guests on his program who shared similar views.<\/p>\n

\u201dSomebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, \u2018IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!\u2019\u201d<\/em> Trump wrote on his social media platform.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Carlson denounced \u201cthose who casually encourage violence\u201d<\/em> and urged Trump not to back Israeli military action against Iran. He argued that the fundamental divide today is not between those supporting West Jerusalem and those backing its adversaries, but \u201cbetween warmongers and peacemakers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Carlson also discussed the role of Israel in US foreign policy during a recent interview with Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs. The host remarked that warnings about Iran being \u201cweeks away\u201d<\/em> from developing nuclear weapons have circulated for more than two decades. Sachs, a vocal critic of the entrenched unelected bureaucracies in the US known as the \u201cdeep state,\u201d<\/em> argued that Israel was aiming for regime change in Tehran.<\/p>\n

Sachs noted that Iran was the final country on a list of seven that the George W. Bush administration had intended to \u201ctake out\u201d<\/em> in five years, beginning with Iraq. The list, as described by retired US Army General Wesley Clark, also included Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan. These nations have all been targeted either through direct US military action or covert operations, the economist said, adding that all were perceived as hostile by Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201dAmerica has been doing Israel\u2019s bidding for 30 years. Because of the Israel lobby. Because of the concocted idea that this is US security,\u201d Sachs said. He argued that \u201carrogance in Washington is the first point of reference\u201d<\/em> in foreign interventions, asserting that policymakers \u201cdon\u2019t believe this is hard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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In a separate interview Monday with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Carlson raised concerns that Middle East hostilities could \u201cblow up\u201d<\/em> the so-called MAGA coalition which fueled Trump\u2019s political resurgence in the 2024 election cycle.<\/p>\n

Bannon warned that \u201cthe American people are 90% against forever wars,\u201d<\/em> and said Trump faces a crucial battle against the deep state if he is to advance his agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conservative talk show host has been criticizing \u201cwarmongers\u201d who advocate US involvement in the hostilities US President Donald Trump blasted conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson on Monday, calling him \u201ckooky\u201d after the journalist questioned Washington\u2019s support for Israel following its strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Israel launched attacks on Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}