Tucker Carlson Feud With Trump Escalates as Conservative Allies Turn Against Him Over Third Party Plans

Tucker Carlson has been at the center of a rapidly escalating feud inside the Republican Party, while continuing to push provocative themes on his podcast and in public appearances. In the last few days, the biggest storyline has been his clash with President Donald Trump and allied conservatives over Carlson’s break with MAGA and his talk of building a new political movement. USA Today and The Hill report that Trump used a late‑night Truth Social post on August 21 to attack Carlson, along with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie, calling them “THREE LOSERS,” branding Carlson “totally irrelevant” with “low IQ,” and suggesting he should be forced to take a cognitive test if he ever runs for office. Trump’s anger was triggered by Carlson’s recent meeting at his home in Maine with Greene, Massie, and Joe Kent to discuss a potential third‑party or anti‑Trump “movement,” and by Carlson’s earlier comments that Trump is “totally disloyal” and effectively “cheated on the United States with a foreign power,” as highlighted in coverage of that meeting and a July interview. Conservative intellectuals are now attacking Carlson’s third‑party project from the right. Ground News summarizes Victor Davis Hanson’s criticism of Carlson’s plan as “incoherent,” arguing that Carlson and his allies are driven by anti‑Trump animus and what Hanson describes as anti‑Semitic anger, underscoring how far Carlson has moved from his former place in the pro‑Trump media ecosystem. On his own show, Carlson has continued to pursue confrontational and often conspiratorial themes. DailyDossier and Podscripts describe his August 20 episode, “Whistleblower: Americans Are Being Murdered While Trump Does Nothing and the Media Cover‑up Grows,” in which he accuses the U.S. government of covering up the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and claims U.S.-funded Israeli settlers are murdering American citizens in the West Bank while the Trump administration and the media look away. This line of argument has intensified criticism of Carlson’s foreign‑policy stance, particularly regarding Israel. In parallel, World Israel News reports on a recent long interview Carlson conducted with Hunter Biden, where Carlson unexpectedly reversed some of his own past rhetoric. He now says the explosive allegation that Hunter Biden’s laptop proved child sexual abuse came from a source “connected to Netanyahu” and that “the Israelis” were behind that false claim fed to his former Fox News program. The outlet notes he offered no corroborating evidence, but the interview marks a notable instance of Carlson partially walking back earlier, highly charged accusations while redirecting blame toward Israeli figures. Carlson has also drawn ridicule for more speculative commentary. SILive describes a widely shared clip from the Tucker Carlson Show in which he speculates that nuclear weapons were not actually created by humans and calls mainstream narratives, including the story told in the film Oppenheimer, “lies.” He ties this to a broader spiritual argument that believing we can destroy all life led humanity to “reject God,” a theory that has generated mockery and debate about his embrace of fringe ideas. Meanwhile, The Christian Post recently highlighted a more religiously themed conversation on his program with a pastor discussing “brokenness” and the Gospel, illustrating Carlson’s continued interest in spiritual and cultural decline as core topics. Reactions from the broader right have been sharp. AOL reports that far‑right activist Laura Loomer blasted Carlson’s mid‑August episode as “glorifying Osama bin Laden,” accusing him of promoting “brain rot” because he lamented that more young Americans haven’t read Bin Laden’s “letter to America” in full; her comments build on a long‑running feud over his criticism of Israel and U.S. Middle East policy. On another front, a recent Young Turks segment discusses investigative reporting indicating that the Trump administration’s counterterror apparatus has privately labeled Carlson and Nick Fuentes as potential domestic‑terror threats under a new national security directive, reflecting how his anti‑Trump and anti‑war positions now put him at odds not only with the president but with the security establishment. Finally, Carlson has become a focal point in skirmishes among right‑wing media personalities. A recent YouTube segment notes Dan Bongino demanding that Carlson produce evidence for his claim that the Trump administration “shut down” the investigation into the 2024 attempted assassination of Trump, and Chris Cuomo using that dispute to criticize Bongino over his role in suppressing Epstein‑related information. These exchanges underline how Carlson’s allegations about the Trump White House and deep‑state politics are now driving conflict across the conservative media landscape, not just between him and Trump but among his former allies. Thanks for listening to the Tucker Carlson News Tracker podcast, and please remember to subscribe. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta