Tucker Carlson Claims Trump Will ‘Obey Ben Shapiro’ In Epic Meltdown On ‘Suicidal’ Iran War

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Tucker Carlson, the influential MAGA podcaster and once close ally of President Donald Trump, went off on social media on Thursday in a wild screed about the war in Iran.

Carlson posted the shock rant in reply to a clip of Ben Shapiro urging Trump to escalate the military campaign against Iran in retaliation for Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. In his loaded reply, Carlson attacked Shapiro as wanting American soldiers to die for Israel and claimed that “Trump will likely obey Ben Shapiro, as he has consistently for months.”

Carlson, who remains a close ally of Vice President JD Vance, has been a regular fixture in Trump’s orbit until recent months when he very publicly broke with the president over the Iran war, resulting in the two trading personal insults.

“Obviously this little freak could go volunteer to fight the war himself, but of course he won’t. He’s got no interest in making any kind of personal sacrifice. None of them do. Israel’s finance minister bragged the other day that having American soldiers fight Netanyahu’s wars ‘is the best for us.’ Smotrich doesn’t want to die for Israel. Neither does Ben Shapiro. Dying for Israel is your job,” Carlson fumed in his post, adding:

You’ve got to wonder how people like this — liars without honor, wisdom or loyalty to the United States — wound up in positions of such profound influence throughout our society. How did Mark Levin get the president’s cell phone number? Why is Adm. Brad Cooper, the man in charge of the Iran war, secretly taking strategic advice from crazed Israel shill Mark Dubowitz? It’s all so nuts, and ultimately suicidal.

Future generations will struggle to understand it. In the meantime, Trump will likely obey Ben Shapiro, as he has consistently for months.

We can predict the results, because every neocon “victory” is identical: huge numbers of innocent people killed, disproportionately Christians, economic destruction, famine, mass migration and deepening authoritarianism at home.

That’s what they’re demanding because that’s what they want. What can we do to stop it? Apparently not much. But we can remember what happened and why, so that history records the truth. Otherwise, when the war ends in disaster, as it inevitably will, Ben Shapiro will be able to blame you for it.

Shapiro, who has denounced Carlson for anti-Semitic rhetoric, shared Carlson’s post and wrote, “Goyslop.”

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