Trump goes to WAR with Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly

[0:00] President Trump's escalating threats against Iran, including his infamous threat to end [0:05] Iran's civilization, has sparked a backlash among some of the biggest stars in MAGA world. [0:12] Now it's time to say no, absolutely not, and say directly to the president, no. [0:16] The president, all right, 3D, just shut up. Shut up about that. You don't threaten to wipe out an [0:25] entire civilization. He's out of control, and people within the administration need to step up, [0:32] take responsibility, and rein this in. It's insanity. It's calling for the murder of an [0:37] entire civilization of men, women, children, of innocent civilians. [0:43] How do we 25th Amendment is asked? [0:48] Well, unsurprisingly, Trump did not take too kindly to those remarks. He lashed out at right-wing media [0:53] figures Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones over their criticisms of the war. [0:58] Trump said they have, quote, low IQs and are, quote, stupid people. Tucker Carlson responded [1:04] to Trump's attacks, telling Newsmax, quote, I've always liked Trump and still feel sorry for him [1:09] as I do all slaves. He's hemmed in by other forces. He can't make his own decisions. [1:14] It is awful to watch. Carlson also trolled Trump by selling merchandise on his site, [1:21] referencing Trump's low IQ attacks. What's interesting here is that there are a lot of [1:28] people out there who somehow convinced themselves that Donald Trump was going to be more [1:32] dubbish than Kamala Harris. And they should maybe engage in some self-reflection on those predictions, [1:40] those prognostications, because the only way you could believe that things would have ended up [1:46] worse under Harris than under Trump as regards to our, you know, military adventurism around the [1:53] world is if you had, like, ignored every single thing Donald Trump said or did in the last decade. [1:57] But that's just my opinion. Well, I will say this, though. He did say he was not going to start any [2:02] new war. So he did lie to the people. So I think the question is whether or not people believed him. [2:06] And I think. But he said everything about everything. Correct. So it's like, why did they choose that [2:11] thing to believe? He really was the central tenet of 2015 propelling his candidacy through the Republican [2:18] primary. It was this and then it was trade. And that's why I do think that this fight is significant [2:24] for the slight attrition. I don't think we're all the way there yet in a full scale Republican revolt [2:30] over the war. We have the Pew poll that we can flash and talk about. What I found interesting was that [2:36] Republican voters in this recent Pew poll over all of the 12 foreign policy areas that were surveyed [2:44] were above 60 percent. And actually, Iran wasn't even the worst issue. The worst issue was actually [2:51] Ukraine and Russia and then NATO. And overall, while it has dropped from earlier years, still, there's like [2:59] a relative amount of confidence. And it's really among the younger Republican voters who are showing [3:04] disapprovement. And that's the area of risk. It's young men who he depended on, who a lot of people believe [3:08] pushed him over the edge in certain states. And it's also the sort of maybe center right folks, [3:16] independents and moderate conservatives who, you know, bought into or believed a lot of that or [3:22] were particularly interested in some of the economic messaging of this administration and [3:27] maybe just didn't think so deeply about some of the other messaging or how that messaging would [3:31] torpedo his economic messaging, frankly, because we're, of course, seeing how all these things are [3:35] interconnected. We're living it at our gas pumps every single day. But it's that exact group that I think [3:41] a lot of these folks are now speaking to. And that's where his vulnerability is. I thought it [3:46] was interesting that the president also called these folks out by name, but he hasn't gone after [3:51] like the Theo Vons, Andrew Scholz, these guys who have been criticizing him heavily, but still have a [3:57] ton of credibility with this younger group. I mean, that his own son, like Barron, represents. And I know [4:03] that Barron listens to some of this stuff. And so I just found it interesting who he's willing to go [4:07] full attack on and those who he seems to be taking a little bit more of a like wait and see [4:14] approach with. Some of it may be that like in the case of Megyn Kelly, you know, in the same week that [4:19] she said what we just saw her say there, you know, criticizing the president, she also said that she [4:23] basically would never, ever vote for a Democrat and she would vote for a Republican even if they used [4:28] a nuclear weapon. And so, you know, to be honest with you, if you say things like that, then the [4:34] candidates have like no need to follow through on any of the promises they make to you because they know [4:38] you're just going to be a chump and vote for them anyway. So it's kind of like that, that mindset, [4:41] if I'm Trump, I'm listening to people like that say that. And I'm like, I can reel you back in [4:45] whenever I want. But Tucker, he knows he can't reel back in. Yeah. He hasn't been able to. And [4:50] Tucker has been standing really firm. But Joe Rogan isn't really MAGA right. He was a convert. The [4:57] difference between a Theo Vaughn and a Joe Rogan who are, you know, they converted, so to speak, [5:02] and they were part of the male wave, the younger wave. But then they're not permanent sticking with [5:08] him forever. And so in this midterm election, you can't lose those right-leaning independents [5:13] and those younger men. So the point that I want to make, though, about you were talking about like [5:18] young men who think that who thought that he was going to deliver on all of these promises. I think [5:23] we should have a different standard for like random voters, marginal voters who are not so engaged [5:30] with politics, right, who it's not their job to follow the news. It's not their job to pay attention [5:35] to policy positions. They're just trying to put food on the table. I get it. But if you are Megyn [5:40] Kelly, if you are Tucker Carlson, if you are any of these people whose job it is to be a professional [5:45] pundit and you didn't see a version of this coming, I'm sorry, I do not feel bad for you. Like, no, [5:52] the wool was not pulled over your eyes. This was fairly obvious. I go back to the point, which is, [5:58] and I'm genuinely trying to understand this. Is it that they believe Donald Trump or that he showed [6:03] them something that should have made them not believe Donald Trump? It's a slight nuance. [6:08] But like Donald Trump said, not starting any new wars. We've spent a lot of wars. I don't want to [6:13] go to any more wars. So even if you looked at Donald Trump for the past nine years before that moment [6:18] and said, I now believe Donald Trump because I don't want to start new wars, he lied to you. [6:25] And I think that's where they are coming from. They feel betrayed that he lied to them about this issue. [6:29] I think your point is valid, which is anybody who's been following Donald Trump could have at least [6:33] said he lies about everything. So this is not going to be new. He's saying this. And I remember [6:39] this because a lot of people, a lot of Muslim Americans in Michigan wanted Donald Trump just [6:44] because they did not let Kamala Harris and the positions the Biden administration took about Gaza. [6:48] Donald Trump found a handful of Muslim leaders, took them on stage in Michigan and got them to stand [6:55] on stage with him as he promised no new wars. And a lot of Muslim Americans fell for that. Now, [6:59] that doesn't mean that they bought into everything Donald Trump said. But on that one issue, [7:03] they were willing to go along with it simply because of the fact that he offered them that lie. [7:08] And, you know, that's the hard part in this is like they feel that he was lied to just as many [7:14] as Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson and perhaps others. But I think anyone who follows Donald Trump [7:18] knows that he's been lying since he came down this staircase. [7:20] It does remind me, though, of 2016, the blow up vote where the whole people who didn't want to [7:26] vote for Hillary and they're like, well, just take the chance. We'll go with Trump. And then [7:30] so tired of the Kamala Harris Biden status quo that those Muslim American voters were willing to risk [7:37] it and vote for Trump, who had been promising no wars and didn't start a war his first term. [7:42] Last thing I'll say is just that I think the other question under this whole umbrella is whether you [7:48] believe what they're even saying now is a deeply held and real conviction. I think perhaps for [7:54] Marjorie Taylor Greene, who gave up her job, who was certainly very fearful about what was going to [7:58] happen to her kids and threats to her family. But I think there's a real open question if anything [8:02] Megyn Kelly is saying on her show about any of this right now is a deeply held conviction or a reaction [8:07] to something she's just seeing in her audience or the way that she thinks the wind is blowing. I don't know.