President Trump on Tuesday denied Tucker Carlson’s bombastic reporting that he was considering nuclear war on Iran, blasting the controversial commentator in a phone call with The Post.
“Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president said. “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.”
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Carlson in a Monday night post to X claimed that President Trump’s expletive-laden Sunday morning Truth Social post that the US would soon bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges was “the first step toward nuclear war.”
“Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us,” Carlson wrote.
Tucker’s post came the same day of America’s “doomsday planes” was spotted circling above a Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base — home to the military’s premier hub of nuclear command, control and communications — just hours before President Trump’s deadline for Iran to accept his peace deal is set to expire.