Tucker Carlson (R) interviews Republican Sen Ted Cruz on his program, Wednesday, June 18 2025. Carlson has exposed a rift in the Republican Party on maters of war between leaders like Trump and Cruz, and the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. (Credit: YouTube/Tucker Carlson)
As Kyiv Post reported last week, Tucker Carlson, the MAGA-world’s favorite media commentator who warned US President Donald Trump against a US strike on Iran in his first term, recently called fears of Tehran building a nuclear bomb overblown, saying neither Iran nor Ukraine warrants US military resources.
After the Israeli strikes on Tehran last week , Carlson announced that there was a divide in Trump’s orbit between “those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it – between warmongers and peacemakers.”
On Wednesday, the conservative commentator took another hawkish Republican to task, humiliating Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his program for not knowing basic facts about Iran even as he pushes for US attacks on Tehran.
The divide within the Republican Party – and Trump’s own cabinet – on matters of war has cracked even deeper this week, not long after his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, unilaterally released a video promoting the idea that an American attack on Iran would be unwise, because, in her estimation as the top US intel official, Iran was nowhere near completing a nuclear weapon.
In her video, Gabbard spoke of “political elite and warmongers” who are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers” and that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”
On Tuesday, when asked by reporters aboard Air Force One about her comments, Trump lashed out, “I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having a weapon.”
