The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro ruthlessly mocked Tucker Carlson on Tuesday over his professed concern that a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could lead to World War III.
“President [Donald] Trump was never, ever going to get us into a nation-building project in Iran. That was never-, have you met President Trump? Have you watched him for the last 10 years?” asked Shapiro rhetorically to kick off his rant. “What unbelievable lack of faith it shows in President Trump for people to suggest that Trump, of all people, was going to get us in to World War III on a nation-building exercise in the Middle East. Are you out of your damned mind?”
Shapiro then went on to play a series of clips of Carlson and his guests issuing warnings about the dire consequences of ordering a strike on Iran, which Trump eventually did over the weekend.
“These are the people who kept telling you it was going to be World War III. And there are lots of them. Lots and lots of people who are telling you it was gonna be World War III. Now, I just want you to note the complete and utter disconnect from reality,” he continued before making fun of Carlson’s reaction to the pre-coordinated Iranian retaliation on a U.S. base in Qatar earlier this week. “Notice the hand-wringing. Notice the sack cloth and ashes. Notice the
Shapiro also read aloud a number of Carlson’s doomsaying tweets, including:
“So apparently you’re a warmonger if you did what President Trump did, or if you encouraged him to do the thing that he did. Not full-scale nation-building, not full-scale, Iraq-style invasion, not any of that. If you told President Trump, or if you said that President Trump should do the thing that he did. Again, the bravest action I’ve seen from presidents of the United States, and the most successful foreign policy move of my lifetime. If you said that, according to Tucker Carlson, you hated the United States, you were actually an enemy of the American people,” observed Shapiro, before concluding by excoriating those who “slather a layer of pseudo-patriotic paint on top of their neo-isolationist, Howard Zinn, blame America trash, that’s irrelevant if the guest list for your program looks like the reading list from the Democratic Socialists of America. or National Students for Justice in Palestine. That’s because you agree with them and everyone should know that you agree with them. Just say it, because you do.”
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