Tucker Carlson has disclosed that he sat across from Donald Trump and told him, to his face, that the very figures pushing him into the Iran war were the same ones who had always despised him — and that the president's response was a matter-of-fact acknowledgement. The account, shared during an appearance on 'The Megyn Kelly Show', adds a striking new dimension to the increasingly fractured relationship between Carlson and the White House and lays bare how deep the divisions run within the right-wing media world that helped elect Trump.
Speaking on the programme, Carlson described the confrontation in blunt, sequential terms. 'I said, "Look, Netanyahu hates you." You know that. They don't like each other at all. "The people pushing you towards this would include Rupert Murdoch, who despises you." Trump knows that, of course. "Marc Thiessen has always hated you. Ben Shapiro, they hate you. Mark Levin hates you, has always hated you,"' Carlson recounted. The list, delivered directly to the president, was not one of political opponents — it was a roll call of voices within and around the conservative movement.
