Donald Trump told reporters that Tucker Carlson “called and apologized” to him amid a split on the Right over U.S. involvement in Israel‘s strikes on Iran.
Carlson, though, has continued to warn about the United States getting into a war in the region, and posted a video on Tuesday night in which he grilled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) about his lack of basic knowledge about Iran.
“Tucker is a nice guy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong, and I appreciated that.”
Last week, Carlson wrote of the U.S. being “complicit” in Israel’s airstrikes on Iran so far, and that he could not think of a “single way this helps the United States.” Trump later took a swipe at Carlson, calling him “kooky” and, “Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen.”
Carlson’s comments underscore the split among Trump’s supporters over U.S. involvement. Figures like Cruz and Mark Levin have emphasized the need to support Israel; Carlson, Charlie Kirk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have been critical of the U.S. being involved in such a foreign conflict.
Trump said that he has not yet made a decision, but insisted “my supporters are for me. My supporters are America First and Make America Great Again. My supporters don’t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump said that he didn’t think Carlson wanted Iran to have a nuclear weapon either. “The problem is, then they get themselves into a thing. They don’t want them to have nuclear, but then they say, ‘Well, we don’t want to fight.’ Well, you’re going to have to make a choice, because it’s possible that you are going to have to fight for them not to have a nuclear. It’s interesting, because I did ask Tucker, I said, ‘Well, are you OK with nuclear weapons being in the hands of Iran?’ And he sort of didn’t like that. And I said, ‘If it’s OK with you, then you and I really do have a difference. But it’s really not OK with him. Therefore, you have to fight, and maybe it will end, and maybe it will end very quickly.”
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