Trump's war on Iran ‘single biggest mistake’ by any US president: Tucker Carlson

The rift between US President Donald Trump and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson continues to widen, with the latter saying that Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran represents the greatest foreign policy blunder of any American leader in his lifetime.

In an interview broadcast April 12 on the BBC's "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg," Carlson was asked whether he believes Trump is a "slave to Benjamin Netanyahu."

While stopping short of a simplistic characterization, he pointed squarely at the Israeli regime for steering the Trump administration into the unprovoked and illegal war.

"I don't think it is as simple as 'he is under the control of Netanyahu,' but you could certainly summarize it that way and you wouldn't be totally inaccurate," Carlson said.

He then delivered his most forceful indictment yet: "We know this because the single biggest mistake Trump – or any American president in my lifetime – has made was going to war with Iran in an effort to change its regime."

When the anchor noted that past presidents had at times "said no to Netanyahu," Carlson agreed without hesitation. "They did, and I wish our president had, but he didn't," he said.

Carlson went further, asserting that Israeli regime officials actively manipulated the United States into the war, saying he saw it personally, the way Tel Aviv steered Washington into a war “that hurts the United States and the world.”

On April 10, he told Newsmax that Trump is a "slave" to the Israeli regime and described the president's handling of the war against the Islamic Republic as "awful to watch."

"I've always liked Trump and still feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves," Carlson said, adding that the president "can't make his own decisions" and is "hemmed in by other forces."

Ex-Fox News host and Trump aide slams US war propaganda against Iran

US media personality and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson, who is known to be close to President Donald Trump, slams US war propaganda against Iran.

His remarks come after Trump, in an April 9 social media post, ridiculed Carlson and other MAGA-aligned critics of the war as "low IQ," irrelevant, and publicity hungry.

"Nobody's talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA − Or I wouldn't have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE," Trump wrote.

Of Carlson specifically, the president claimed, "he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he's never been the same."

The war against Iran, which came in the middle of nuclear talks, has led to strong pushback from some prominent Trump-aligned media figures, as they question his decisions taken under the influence of the Zionist lobby in Washington.

Carlson called Trump's expletive-laden Easter Sunday threat against Iranian civilian infrastructure "a war crime" and "a moral crime" in the April 6 episode of "The Tucker Carlson Show."

Former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for Trump to be removed from office under the 25^th Amendment after the president threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight" in an April 7 social media post.

Polls show the war against Iran is broadly unpopular, as it has incurred the US billions of dollars worth of costs without achieving any of its stated objectives.

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