Tucker Carlson has spent the last decade as America’s leading conservative media figure and a crucial Trump supporter. Just before our attack on Iran he hosted his fellow
FoxNews alumnus
Clayton Morris of the popular
Redacted podcast.
Both of them agreed that an attack on Iran would be disastrous and absolutely contrary to American national interests, also noting that only about 20% of Americans favored the idea.
A couple of days later, an outraged Carlson immediately condemned our attack on Iran as
“absolutely disgusting and evil.” Other very prominent figures in the MAGA movement such as former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones
denounced Trump’s Iran War in equally scathing terms. Greene
declared “We voted for America First and ZERO wars,” condemning the administration as a “bunch of sick fucking liars.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald noted the gigantic hypocrisy that Trump had successfully returned to the White House in 2024 by running as the candidate of peace, but had now begun the biggest war we had fought in at least the half-century since our debacle in Vietnam. In
a Tweet viewed several million times, Greenwald denounced Trump’s official “pro-peace” candidacy as having constituted “One of the most shamelessly fraudulent presidential campaigns in American history”
Chas Freeman ranks as one of our most distinguished diplomats, and he also served as an assistant secretary of defense. In an interview immediately after the attack,
he warned that our government had reduced the entire world to a complete state of lawlessness, with fateful consequences for all nations, certainly including our own.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University
made some equally disheartening points in an interview on the same YouTube channel.