OPINION:
On Thursday, President Trump condemned the Bizarro right in the strongest possible terms. Anything MAGA can do to cut off creeps such as Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens is an important step in the right direction.
In a 500-word post on Truth Social, the president said the anti-Israel trio are attention-seeking “nut jobs.” “They don’t have what it takes, and never did,” the president charged. “They’ve been thrown off television, lost their jobs, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them.” Mr. Trump said they will say anything for “free publicity.”
Mr. Carlson, who was on Fox News for 14 years until the network fired him for extremist comments, claims Mr. Trump was manipulated by Israel into attacking Iran.
The podcaster’s views on the Jewish state sound like Tehran’s talking points. The former Fox host claims Israel deliberately bombed churches in Gaza and regularly mistreats Christians. Ms. Owens, who makes Mr. Carlson sound moderate by comparison, calls Israel a “demonic, cult nation.”
Mr. Carlson says the president’s threat to bomb Iran’s civilian infrastructure was “a war crime, a moral crime.” He claims the Trump administration might have bombed an Iranian elementary school on purpose and the president’s Easter message mocking Islam was “evil.”
The media hails the foregoing as a split in MAGA. It’s nothing of the sort.
A poll taken at a 2025 Turning Point USA conference showed 87% of the conservative youth vanguard considers Israel an important ally. In a March 30 CBS News poll, 92% of MAGA Republicans said they support military action against Iran.
MAGA was never isolationist. Like the president, the movement opposes forever wars, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, not limited military actions to counter a clear and present dangers.
As long as Mr. Carlson and Ms. Owens are out there making absurd claims about Israel manipulating the president and saying things about Jews that sound like they come from “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” the media will do its best to mislead the public into believing this is part of MAGA.
Antisemitism and isolationism have both become articles of faith for the Democrats. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for the Democratic Senate nomination, embraces podcaster Hasan Piker, who says “America deserved 9/11.”
The GOP must continue to offer a clear choice to this moral rot. The president has done just that by disassociating MAGA from the weirdo right.
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