By Molly Claire Goddard
4:03am PDT, Jun 18, 2025
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Donald Trump and
Tucker Carlson's feud is making the MAGA base take sides.
After the conservative pundit claimed the current president is "complicit" in Israel's attacks on Iran, Trump wasted no time slamming Carlson on social media. Amid the right-wing showdown, many conservatives are making it known who they support.
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On Friday, June 13, Tucker Carlson took to
X to emphasize how the United States under Donald Trump's leadership should not get involved in the war between Israel and Iran and condemned the people on the right who are seemingly in support of it.
"The real divide isn't between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who's calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list:
Sean Hannity,
Mark Levin,
Rupert Murdoch,
Ike Perlmutter and
Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now," the former Fox News host wrote.
In Carlson's newsletter published the same day, the prominent conservative added, "While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night's events."
"Washington knew these attacks would happen," he added. "They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can't now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it."
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On Monday, June 16, Donal Trump took to his
Truth Social account to hit back at Tucker Carlson's remarks.
"Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, 'IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!'" the businessman wrote. "AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
When Trump was asked by a reporter about Carlson's criticisms at the G7 Leaders' Summit later that day, he said, "I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen."
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Representative
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's typically loyal to Donald Trump, publicly defended Tucker Carlson.
"Tucker Carlson is one of my favorite people," she wrote
on X on Monday, June 16, alongside a photo of herself and the media personality. "He fiercely loves his wife, children and our country. Since being fired by the neocon network Fox News, he has more popularity and viewers than ever before. He unapologetically believes the same things I do. That if we don't fight for our own country and our own people then we will no longer have a country for our children and our grandchildren. And foreign wars/intervention/regime change put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke and will ultimately lead to our destruction. That's not kooky. That's what millions of Americans voted for. It's what we believe is America First."
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However, not all Republicans were torn. Former
George W. Bush White House press secretary
Ari Fleischer took to
X to rejoice over Tucker Carlson's fallout with Donald Trump.
"The dam has burst on Tucker," the former media liaison wrote on June 16. "People who didn't want to tangle with him now know he's a paper tiger without a podium. His entire career was marked by lurching from one cause to the other with no ideological consistency. He's a carnival barker and a clown. Drop Tucker."
