Overview
- Trump, following Thursday's Truth Social tirade, labeled Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones as having “Low IQs” after they attacked his Iran campaign known as Operation Epic Fury.
- Carlson answered Friday by saying he feels sorry for the president “as I do for all slaves” and claiming Trump is “hemmed in” and “can’t make his own decisions,” according to Newsmax reporter James Rosen.
- In a BBC interview Sunday, Carlson repeated the “slave” line and advanced unproven claims that Israel steered U.S. policy into the Iran war, which he called the biggest mistake of Trump’s presidency.
- The clash has turned commercial and combative as Carlson launched “Low IQ” merchandise, Owens said it may be time to put “Grandpa” in a home, and Jones threatened to go “scorched earth,” while Kelly blasted the cease-fire as surrender.
- Ben Shapiro and multiple recent polls contend the revolt is limited inside the party, citing 80–90% Republican approval for the strikes and roughly 6% siding with the critics on Iran.