Trump rips 'low-IQ' Tucker Carlson: 'Absolutely no idea what’s going on' |
Trump rips ‘low-IQ’ Tucker Carlson: ‘Absolutely no idea what’s going on’
President Trump hit back at conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, who on Monday blasted the president over a social media post in which he used an expletive and threatened Iran ahead of a ceasefire deadline Tuesday evening.
“Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president said during an interview with the New York Post. “He calls me all the time; I don’t respond to his calls. I don’t deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools.”
Carlson on Monday called Trump’s post, in which he cursed as he urged Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, “vile on every level,” and he accused the president of trying to play “God.”
“So, obviously, you’re mocking the religion of Iran. OK. If you seek a religious war, that’s a good idea. But by the way, no decent person mocks other people’s religions. You may have a problem with the theology. Presumably, you do if it’s not your religion, and you can explain what that is. But to mock other people’s faith is to mock the idea of faith itself,” Carlson said.
A vocal supporter of the president during his last election campaign, Carlson has broken with Trump over the war in a big way, accusing Israel of influencing U.S. policy in the Middle East and calling military operations against Iran “evil.”
Trump, in another Truth Social post on Tuesday, sparked alarm around the world by saying “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran does not agree to a ceasefire deal before his 8 p.m. EDT deadline.
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