Overview
- Carlson, speaking with his brother on his podcast Monday, said he was sorry for misleading people into supporting Trump and said he would be tormented by that role.
- He tied his break to Trump's Iran war and the president's profane Easter threat against Tehran, which he called evil and a betrayal of the promised no-new-wars stance.
- Trump hit back on Truth Social by calling Carlson a low IQ person, escalating a feud that has widened rifts among one-time MAGA allies.
- Carlson told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Saturday that he feels betrayed by Trump, does not hate him, and believes outside forces such as Israel-aligned donors and neoconservatives swayed his policies after Carlson says he failed to change Trump’s course in private talks.
- Media analysts describe the apology as a limited repositioning and warn that the Carlsons’ talk of Zionist or globalist control echoes antisemitic scapegoating, citing Carlson’s past private texts disparaging Trump and his platforming of extremist figures like Nick Fuentes.