Carlson Quits GOP Over Support for Israel

Podcaster Tucker Carlson has quit the Republican Party over its support for Israel over the interests of Americans.

Carlson told the Can’t Be Censored podcast last week that the GOP has betrayed its own voters and is “not loyal” to the United States. The wildly popular podcaster, who typically hosts guests viewers won’t see in the mainstream leftist or conservative media, said “there’s no chance” he would support the GOP.

“I’m out,” Carlson said.

Not that Republicans will care. President Donald Trump wrote Carlson out of the party long ago, in March. Carlson had called the war on Iran “evil.”

In March, when Trump said Carlson “lost his way” and was “not MAGA,” former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene backed Carlson and said the 57-year-old podcaster could beat Trump in an election.

Why Split With Trump, GOP?

Trump and Carlson inked their divorce agreement when Carlson attacked Trump for waging war on Iran, calling it “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Trump told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that Carlson simply wasn’t MAGA.

“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told Karl:

I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.

The following month, the war of words continued. 

After Trump vowed in a profane and obscene Truth Social post to erase Iran’s power grid, he followed up with this post on April 7:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. 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.

That didn’t go over well with Trump, who told the New York Post:

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 fools.

He also included former supporters Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones in a Truth Social rant.

“I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump began his jeremiad:

— Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! … Nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some “free” and cheap publicity.

“Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn’t even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he’s never been the same — Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!” Trump said of the man who supported him for years.

Greene backed Carlson.

“I SUPPORT TUCKER,” she wrote on X over Karl’s revelation:

Trump doesn’t even know what MAGA is anymore and turned it into MIGA. 

Trump is not America First, he’s donor first.

Tucker would beat Trump if he ran for President and Trump tried to violate the constitution and tried to run again for a third term.

Carlson explained the split with Trump to The New York Times. Trump had abandoned his base, Carlson said, and went to war on behalf of Israel on the advice of Israel First neoconservatives.

Not Just Trump

Trump, of course, isn’t the only Republican with whom Carlson is at odds. He sat down for a contentious chin wag with Israel First GOP Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who claimed the Bible mandates U.S. support for Israel. Equally Israel First U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee greenlit the Greater Israel Project during his interview with Carlson.

Undoubtedly, two other problems for Carlson are bills on Capitol Hill that would virtually merge the U.S. and Israeli military and intelligence combines. The bills would give Israel access to military, intelligence, and technological secrets that they might retail to other countries.

“I’m Out”

Thus did Carlson say he will no longer vote for Republicans.

“I would not support the Republican Party,” Carlson said on the Can’t Be Censored podcast:

There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party. I’m not going to support the Democratic Party. I don’t know what I’m going to do.

But at this point, how could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens. It’s not possible to vote for people like that, and I’m not going to.

Noting that he has been a “very consistent defender” of the GOP for 35 years, Carlson said he can no longer do so. “There’s no defending this because it’s immoral,” he continued:

And it’s exactly the opposite of what a political party and a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation, and they’re not doing that. So no, I’m out. And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are.