The quarrel between Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. What is known

Relations between US President Donald Trump and his former main media ally Tucker Carlson have entered the stage of open conflict. In March 2026, Trump officially expelled the journalist from the MAGA ("Make America Great Again") movement, and then Carlson sharply criticized the president's offensive Easter post, calling it "disgusting on all levels." All the details are in the Izvestia article.

Chronology of the conflict

The conflict between Trump and Carlson began to escalate back in mid-2025. In June 2025, when Israel began attacking Iran, the journalist spoke out against the involvement of the United States in the Middle East war. Then the American president publicly called him "crazy" on the Truth Social network: "Someone, please explain to crazy Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot possess nuclear weapons!". According to The New York Times, the journalist was almost the only one of Trump's close allies who opposed the American military operation in Iran. He met with the president three times at the White House to dissuade him from this step, detailing the risks to military personnel, rising energy prices and dependence on Israel's position. However, the US president, according to the newspaper, replied that he understands the risks, but "he has no other choice."

Exclusion from MAGA and Trump's reaction

On March 6, 2026, the President of the United States officially announced that Carlson was no longer involved in the MAGA movement.

"Tucker lost his way. I've known about this for a long time, it doesn't support MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is "America First," and Tucker has nothing to do with it. And Tucker is not smart enough to understand that," the American leader said in an interview with ABC News.

Carlson, in turn, called the US attack on Iran "absolutely disgusting and evil" and warned that it would radically change the balance of power within MAGA. The journalist also said that he remained "the only one who is true to the ideas with which Trump went to the polls," and recalled that it was the promise to get out of the Middle East conflicts that attracted millions of Americans.

Trump's Easter Post and Carlson's reaction

A new round of conflict occurred on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026. Trump published a post on Truth Social threatening Iran, containing obscenities.

"Open the <damn> strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll live in hell," he wrote.

The journalist criticized the president in his podcast the next day.

"How dare you say that to the country on Easter morning? Who do you think you are? You post a message with an obscene word on Easter morning," Carlson pointed out.

He called the post "disgusting at all levels" and accused Trump of threatening to commit a war crime, namely the deliberate destruction of another country's civilian infrastructure. The US president, in turn, in an interview with the New York Post called the journalist "a man with a low IQ who has no idea what's going on."

The split within MAGA

The Trump—Carlson conflict is just the tip of the iceberg. As Politico newspaper notes, the quarrel exposed a deep split within the MAGA movement, where supporters of a tough foreign policy clashed with isolationists due to the war in the Middle East. Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, also a staunch ally of the US president in the past, defended the journalist.

Conservative commentator and activist Laura Loomer, on the other hand, issued harsh threats against Carlson and his allies.

"They have no idea what awaits them politically. They messed with the wrong people, and they won't get away with it," she wrote on social media.

The Republican Jewish Coalition Committee, on the other hand, praised the president for distancing himself from the journalist's rhetoric, and the head of the Justice Department's anti-Semitism department, Leo Terrell, said: "If you're with Tucker, you're not with President Trump. Trump is MAGA."

Background: how Carlson was a Trump ally

Tucker Carlson has long been considered one of Trump's most influential media supporters. He spoke at the Republican National Convention, actively supported the president during the 2024 election campaign and repeatedly appeared at his rallies. However, after the outbreak of the war in Iran, relations deteriorated sharply. New York Post columnist Douglas Murray, commenting on the conflict, called the journalist a "mad traitor" who is trying to divert the MAGA base from the American leader and spends all his time trying to set up a movement against Israel.

"There are times when I get angry at Trump, now I definitely am. But I will always love him, no matter what he says about me," Carlson himself said in March of this year.

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