Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson attacked President Donald Trump for touting his supposed “99%” approval rating in Israel on his podcast on Wednesday night, as the former Fox News host and one-time Trump ally continued to escalate his feud with the president and accused him of colluding with donors to oust Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Conservative political commentator and podcast host Tucker Carlson speaks at Turning Point's annual AmericaFest conference.
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Carlson again bashed the president’s decision to go to war, saying on his podcast he could not have imagined a year ago that Trump would be “cheerleading a regime change war in the Middle East against Iran.”
The former Fox host played a clip of Trump speaking to reporters earlier this week, where the president claims he has a 99% approval rating in Israel and jokes: “So, maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel and run for prime minister.”
Carlson then called out the president for “bragging about his popularity” in a foreign country, “the same country that got us into the war,” which was hurting his popularity at home.
Carlson also said Trump didn’t mention his approval rating has plummeted to “35% in the United States.”
The right-wing commentator accused Trump of spending the last year “looking outward toward the approval of other nations.”
Trump’s approval rating has slumped to near record second-term lows in recent weeks, and the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed his approval rating was at 35% while 63% disapproved of his performance as president.
“The last year has not made America great again. The last year has diminished American power at a rate some of us thought was unimaginable. We couldn’t have foreseen, less than a year and a half ago… the damage that this administration – led by that president, for whom we campaigned and liked personally – could do to this country,” Carlson added.
On his show, Carlson also attacked billionaire GOP donors Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer and John Paulson for financially backing Massie’s primary opponent and claimed this was a result of the Kentucky Congressman’s opposition to U.S. military aid for Israel. He claimed: “They colluded in effect to destroy Thomas Massie…Trump colluded with three of his donors, including his biggest, Miriam Adelson, to destroy Thomas Massie, and to end his career in Congress by beating him in the Republican primary.” Earlier this month, Carlson accused Adelson and billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch of pushing Trump into the Iran war.
Carlson has been among a group of prominent right-wing MAGA figures who have publicly split with Trump over various issues, including the handling of the Epstein files and the ongoing war in Iran. On his podcast last month, Carlson said he would be “tormented” by his support for Trump for a “long time.” At the time, the former Fox host said, “And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that’s all I’ll say.” The right-wing pundit was joined by his brother and Trump’s former speechwriter, Buckley Carlson, on the podcast and told him: “You and I and everyone else who supported him – you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him – I mean, we’re implicated in this for sure.”
While the president has not responded to Carlson’s latest comments, he has attacked the former Fox host and others, his ex-allies turned foes, by calling them “NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS” in multiple Truth Social posts. Trump mocked Carlson, claiming he was “thrown off Television” and dismissed his criticism as a bit to gain “cheap publicity” for his podcast. He also called Carlson a “Low IQ person - Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!!”
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