Trump hits back after Tucker Carlson's attack: 'Let him go get a TV network'

President Donald Trump brushed aside the mounting criticisms being made against him by far-right commentator and former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson at a press pool caught on video by Newsmax on Monday afternoon.

"I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying," said Trump. "Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen."

Carlson, who was infamous for giving a mainstream platform to white nationalism while he worked at Fox, has in recent days found himself growing further at odds with Trump over the president's approach to the escalating military conflict between Israel and Iran.

"The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians," Carlson posted on X last week "The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers."

He went on to clarify that the warmongers are "anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now."

Carlson's attacks have triggered clapback from many of the more hawkish figures in the GOP, including former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who responded by posting clips to X of Carlson calling for war against Iran multiple times in the past.

"I've known Tucker for 25 years," Fleischer said. "Tucker doesn't have a consistent thought in his head, except self-promotion. He's a phony."

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