Tucker Carlson slams Trump over his Easter rhetoric on Iran: 'Vile on every level'
The conservative influencer issues his harshest criticism yet of the president.
Tucker Carlson, the far right conservative commentator who campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2024, issued a scathing critique of the president over comments he made over the weekend on the Iran war, particularly the president's vulgar social media post on Easter Sunday.
Carlson, who has been critical of the Iran war, ramped up his attacks of the president on Monday in a newly released video in which he goes beyond just criticizing those around the president and instead directly targets Trump himself in blunt terms.
Carlson focused on Trump's social media post on Sunday, in which he wrote to "open the F-----' Strait, you crazy bastards," calling the post "vile on every level" and "the most revealing thing the president has ever done."
"How dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country. Who do you think you are? You're tweeting out the F word on Easter morning?" Carlson said in his podcast.
He added that the president's post was "a mockery not just of Islam, it's a mockery of Christianity."
"To send out a tweet with the F word on Easter morning, promising the murder of civilians and then saying 'Praise be to Allah' without explaining any of it, you are mocking me, every other Christian, because we're Christians," he said.
Carlson, who posted his episode before Trump's Tuesday post threatening a "whole civilization will die tonight," took aim at the president for show showing a willingness to target civilian infrastructure and commit what Carlson called a "war crime."
"It begins with a promise to use the U.S. military, our military to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime, against the people of the country, whose welfare, by the way, was one of the reasons we supposedly went into this war in the first place," he said.
Asked Monday if his threats to destroy Iran's infrastructure amounted to a war crimes, Trump answered, "You know the war crime? The war crime is allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
Carlson said Trump's comments even made him reconsider whether a missile strike on an Iranian school on the first day of the war "was an accident." Trump told reporters on March 9 that he didn't know about video showing the Tomahawk cruise missile striking the school.
The Pentagon has said it was investigating the strike and the White House stressed that it does not deliberately target schools.
"No one could ever believe the U.S. government would do that on purpose. I still don't believe it. But after this, you have to kind of wonder, how did that happen?" Carlson said.
"Who knows, at this point, for the president to call for that ... not acceptable under any circumstances," Carlson added.
Carlson, who campaigned with Trump during the 2024 election, also took issue with Trump’s comment about taking Venezuela's oil after capturing its president.
While Carlson told his audience he was "grateful" for the president's second term, "Maybe vote for him again, but I can't support theft because it's immoral."
Trump, however, did not return the love on Tuesday and hit back at Carlson during an interview with a New York Post reporter.
"Tucker's a low-IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on," Trump said. "He calls me all the time; I don't respond to his calls. I don't deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools."
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