Trump Assaults “Low-IQ” Carlson for Suggesting That U.S. Will Nuke Iran
A day after podcaster Tucker Carlson denounced President Trump for an F-bomb rant about attacking Iran’s power plants and said he might use nuclear weapons on the country, the increasingly erratic president said the “low-IQ” commentator is wrong.
Carlson doesn’t know “what’s going on,” Trump said.
The wildly popular podcaster had noted that Israel-First neoconservative chickenhawk Mark Levin subtly advised Trump to vaporize Iran with atom bombs. And nuclear weapons might be used, Carlson said, because U.S. ground forces cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Hours from now, Trump warned today, U.S. forces will end Iranian “civilization.”
Scandalous Post
The inspiration for Carlson’s podcast, released yesterday, was Trump’s deranged vow on Easter to wipe out Iran’s electrical grid. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” he wrote on Truth Social:
There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F****n’ Strait, you crazy b****rds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.
Today, Trump threatened Iran again.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social:
I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.
In a monologue before his standard interview, Carlson replied that Trump’s expressing such a scatological sentiment on the day the Prince of Peace rose from the dead was “vile on every level.”
“Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war,” Carlson wrote on X over a video of his podcast:
Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us.
The podcaster elaborated by showing a video by Levin that justified the United States’s dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945 to end World War II. Levin noted that the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of the war, ended in almost more than 80,000 casualties. The Battle of Okinawa added another 50,000, including more than 12,000 killed.
That is what convinced President Harry Truman, Levin said, that taking Japan would end in 1 million dead. Thus did Truman decide to drop the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“Did you hear that? That’s Mark Levin’s counsel to our sitting President, Donald Trump, right now,” Carlson said:
You are looking at a choice between the catastrophic loss of your troops in a ground war or the use of nuclear weapons, which in a sense, if you think about it, just think about it for a second, is actually an act of peace.… The most humane thing you could do is to end this now with nuclear weapons. That’s the case Mark Levin is making to the president, who just last week recommended that all Americans watch Mark Levin’s show…. We’re moving toward the use of weapons of indiscriminate mass destruction, possibly nuclear weapons, but non-conventional weapons. Not bombs dropped from the air or missiles launched from launchers. But the use of weapons that have never been used in war, ever. And the argument is the same argument that you heard in 1945.… But the argument that it’s actually much more humane to kill tens, hundreds of thousands, millions of civilians than it is to … fight it out with the Marine Corps on the rocky shores of mainland Iran.
Refuse Orders
Carlson also opined that U.S. troops cannot open Hormuz, and urged White House officials and military officers to refuse any order to use a weapon of mass destruction on Iran.
“And so unless somebody puts the brakes on right away, we’re going to wind up in a place that we can’t even imagine. Not just Iran but the rest of the world,” Carlson continued:
And so that means, because this is obvious to anyone who is paying any attention, that if you work in the White House or in the US military now it’s time to say, “no, absolutely not.” And say it directly to the President, “no,” in case you’re thinking about using some weapon of mass destruction against the population of Iran in whose name we liberated Iran.… Those people who are in direct contact with the president need to say “no, I’ll resign. I’ll do whatever I can do legally to stop this because this is insane and if given the order, I’m not carrying it out. Figure out the codes on the football yourself.”
As JP reported earlier today, other conservatives have not only attacked Trump but also said he must be removed from office under the 25th Amendment of the Constitution.
Trump Reacts
As is his custom with anyone who challenges him, Trump attacked Carlson personally.
“Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president told the New York Post:
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.
Trump repeatedly vowed during his 2024 presidential campaign to stop foreign wars, yet attacked Iran in June, then began a bombing campaign on February 28.
As JP reported when the illegal bombing campaign began, Trump furiously attacked former President Barack Obama for putative plans to attack the country.
“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate,” he said in November 2011 of Obama:
He’s weak and he’s ineffective. So the only way he figures that he’s going to get re-elected, and as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.
“@BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected,” Trump wrote on Twitter on January 17, 2012. On September 16, 2013, he wrote that Obama would attack Iran to “save face.”
In late March, as TNA reported, former CIA agent John Kiriakou told podcaster Michael Franzese that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu threatened to hit Iran with nuclear weapons if Trump didn’t go along with its plan to attack the country.
“There was this constant drumbeat of pressure from the Israelis that we’ve got to bomb Iran, you gotta bomb Iran,” Kiriakou said:
Well, we didn’t bomb Iran until Donald Trump. And I have friends at the White House. I have friends in the administration. And they all tell me the same thing. They say that Trump agreed to bomb Iran because Benjamin Netanyahu threatened him and told him, “If you don’t bomb Iran, we’re going to use nuclear weapons against Iran.”