Overview
- Trump, who posted a roughly 500-word message on Truth Social Thursday, attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones as “low IQ” “nut jobs” and “losers.”
- The tirade followed days of on-air criticism of his Iran policy, including objections to threats against civilian infrastructure and calls from Owens and Jones to consider removing him from office.
- He claimed the commentators think it is “wonderful” for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, a characterization reporters note is not supported by anything the four have said.
- He also revived past controversies about each figure, citing Jones’s Sandy Hook judgments, Owens’s comments about France’s first lady, Carlson’s Fox ouster and Kelly’s 2015 debate question.
- The public break deepens fractures inside the MAGA media world and could reshape GOP messaging as the White House enters a two-week ceasefire with Iran tied to reopening the Strait of Hormuz.