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Trump tears into Tucker Carlson over Iran war claims: ‘Low-IQ person’

By Caitlin Doornbos

Published April 7, 2026

Updated April 7, 2026, 1:16 p.m. ET

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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.”

Carlson in a Monday night post to X claimed that President Trump’s expletive-laden Easter 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.

In Trump’s Sunday morning missive, he warned Iran to “open the F—–’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

Carlson called the language on Easter — a holy Christian holiday — “vile on every level.”

“How dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country?” Carlson said in his podcast. “Who do you think you are? You’re tweeting out the f-word on Easter morning.”

Carlson in his podcast likened the US president to the antichrist, suggesting Trump is setting in motion nuclear war to provoke armageddon.

“Is it just a conventional escalation ladder in a badly thought out war … [or] could it be something bigger? Is it possible what you’re watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith: belief in Jesus?” he said.

“Is it possible that the president sees this in bigger terms? Sees this as the fulfillment of something? An elevation of some higher office beyond president of the United States?”

The admonishment comes just months after Carlson was welcomed at the White House with open arms.

As part of his evidence, he claimed that Trump infamously did not put his hand on the Bible when swearing into office in January 2025 because he rejects God’s authority.

“… Maybe he didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what’s inside that book, and what’s inside that book are limits on human behavior,” he said. “Because if there’s one theme that spans all 66 books in the Christian Bible, it’s that you are not God and you cannot assume his powers.”

Hyping up his nuclear hypothesis, Carlson further urged White House and military staffers to resign if Trump directs them to launch a nuclear bomb on Iran.

“Those people who are in direct contact with the President need to say, ‘no, I’ll resign. I’ll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, because this is insane, and if you give the order, I’m not carrying it out. Figure out the codes on the football yourself,'” Carlson said.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s @HQNewsNow X account further inflated the bogus rumor Tuesday, claiming that Vice President JD Vance implied “Trump might use nuclear weapons.”

The post included a clip of Vance speaking in Hungary on Tuesday stating that “we’ve got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use that the president of the United States can decide to use them — and he will decide to use them if the Iranians don’t change their course of conduct.”

Kelly has also defended Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who has recently stepped up criticism of Israel.

The White House quickly shut down the claim in a response on its @RapidResponse47 account: “Literally nothing @VP said here ‘implies’ this, you absolute buffoons.”

Trump has insisted he will follow through on his threat of hitting Iran’s energy and other infrastructure if Tehran doesn’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he posted to Truth Social. “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”

“We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!” he added.

The president has many military options available to him, including increased airstrikes across Iran or its islands in the Strait of Hormuz — and even putting troops on the ground on Iran’s critical Kharg island, which handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports, experts have said.

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