Carlson publicly criticized Trump’s policy military intervention against Iran, which triggered backlash from Trump.[232][233] In a phone interview with Rachael Blade of The Inner Circle on March 2, 2026, Trump declared that both Carlson and Megyn Kelly, another right-wing commentator who criticized Trump’s Iran policy, “aren’t MAGA.”[232][234] On March 5, 2026, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl revealed that Trump stated to him that “Tucker has lost his way,” and “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”[235][236]
In response to Trump “throwing him out of MAGA,” Carlson told Oliver Darcy of Status that “There are times I get annoyed with Trump, right now definitely included,” while also claiming that “but I’ll always love him no matter what he says about me.”
Wonder what made Tucker finally break on something. He’s certainly not as popular as he once was, but he wasn’t discarded until he opposed Dear Leader’s war of choice in Iran. His podcast was fairly popular, as far as that goes.