Marjorie Taylor Greene took a moment on Monday night to defend Tucker Carlson after Donald Trump called the former Fox News host “kooky” for criticizing the president’s support of Israel’s attacks on Iran. Yes, it’s a real Mad Libs From Hell moment.
Following a Truth Social post in which Trump wrote, “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Greene took to X to tell her followers: “Tucker Carlson is one of my favorite people. He fiercely loves his wife, children, and our country. Since being fired by the neocon network Fox News, he has more popularity and viewers than ever before. He unapologetically believes the same things I do. That if we don’t fight for our own country and our own people then we will no longer have a country for our children and our grandchildren. And foreign wars/intervention/regime change put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction. That’s not kooky. That’s what millions of Americans voted for. It’s what we believe is America First.”
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Greene’s defense of Carlson came one day after she declared that “everyone is finding out who are real America First/MAGA and who were fake,” and that “anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA,” a claim appearing to suggest that Donald Trump is not a real MAGA guy given his current take on the situation.
Going against Trump is not the only surprising thing the Georgia congresswoman did yesterday. She also claimed during an interview with disgraced former representative turned cable-news host Matt Gaetz that Fox News has “brainwashed” Americans into supporting war with Iran. “We’ve watched for decades propaganda news,” Greene said during her appearance on The Matt Gaetz Show. “I’ll call out Fox News and the New York Post. They’re known to be the neocon network news. We have propaganda news on our side just like the left does, and the American people have been brainwashed into believing that America has to engage in these foreign wars in order for us to survive, and it’s absolutely not true.” Carlson had similarly harsh words for his former longtime employer, telling Steve Bannon: “What they’re doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to, you know, knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit.” (He did not say if he engaged in spreading propaganda during his 14 years at the network, but it seems he might have!)
Greene’s and Carlson’s hostility toward Trump has not gone over well with certain members of MAGA nation. Conspiracy theorist and Oval Office guest Laura Loomer, for instance, called for her followers to post screenshots of Republicans’ recent negative comments about Trump, writing “I have most of them. But I don’t want to miss any.”
Anyway, in case anyone was worried about the rapidly evolving situation, fear not: Trump took to social media on Tuesday to declare that the US won’t be taking out the leader of Iran “for now.”
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