He once again criticized the US military campaign against Iran and threats to target civilian infrastructure, saying it would be a war crime.
Carlson believes that the United States will not be able to open the Strait of Hormuz using conventional weapons, since it can be blocked by mines. “If your traditional options are exhausted, what are you left with? Nuclear weapons,” he said. Tucker said there are “a million signs” pointing to this.
At the same time, the journalist emphasized that a nuclear strike will not lead to peace, but could lead to a global nuclear war.
“This is crazy. This is real crazy. It's hard to believe that this even needs to be said out loud. But it has to be, because, all other things being equal, this is where we are heading. And how do we know this? There are a million signs, but the most obvious one is that the stupidest neoconservatives around Trump are saying this out loud,” Carlson said.
He called on US officials to resist any potential Trump attempts to launch massive attacks that would kill Iranian civilians.
New York Post journalist Caitlin Doornboss posted a snippet of Tucker's speech and wrote: “President Trump lashed out at Carlson when I asked him about this nonsense this morning.” She quoted Trump as saying that Tucker is a “low IQ person” who “has absolutely no idea what's going on.” According to her, Trump also said that Tucker constantly calls him, but he does not answer.
President Trump went off on Carlson when I asked him about this nonsense this morning.
“Tucker's a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on. 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… https://t.co/xHDL5QkuCE
— Caitlin Doornbos (@CaitlinDoornbos) April 7, 2026
Context
Carlson is a famous American journalist, popular among conservative voters, and a supporter of US President Donald Trump. From 2009 to 2023, he worked for the conservative Fox News channel.. The journalist has repeatedly made anti-Ukrainian statements, opposed the provision of American aid to Ukraine, and also insulted the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, calling him a “US puppet” and a “dictator in a tracksuit.”
It was to Carlson that the illegitimate president of the aggressor country, Russia, Vladimir Putin, gave his first interview as a Western journalist since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, reminded NBC News. In it, Putin repeated Russian propaganda narratives that Ukraine is an “artificial state” allegedly created by the Soviet regime, and that Russia’s war against Ukraine is “to a certain extent an element of civil war.”
In the analysis of the publication “GORDON” says how Putin lied about the father of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and even twisted his own lies, and who is Tucker Carlson.
Zelensky, in an interview with British presenter Piers Morgan published on February 3, said that Carlson needs to stop “licking Putin's ass.”
Carlson criticized the military campaign against Iran in 2025, after which Trump said ABC News journalist Jonathan Karlthat Carlson is no longer part of MAGA.
