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Trump Breaks With Tucker: “he’s not MAGA”

Trump Breaks With Tucker: “he’s not MAGA”

On day Tucker viciously targeted the religious Jewish group Chabad, Trump declares: “Tucker has lost his way”

Tucker Carlson has become poison, we’ve covered his putrid descent into Jew-baiting and covering for Islamic enemies of the U.S. like Iran many times.

Yesterday was a low point event for the piece of trash when he launched a tirade into the religious Jewish organization Chabad, clearly seeking to incite violence against them. Tucker falsely tied Chabad to the IDF’s supposedly expansionist plans and also for supposedly plotting to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque. Both of those accusations put an Islamic terrorist target on Chabad, which already has been the subject of numerous terrorist attacks.

In 2008, terrorists killed at least nine people at a Chabad house in India. In 2024, terrorists kidnapped and killed Chabad rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE. In 2025, terrorists killed 15 people at a Chabad event in Australia. And in 2026, Tucker Carlson accused Chabad of warmongering and trying to forcibly bring about the messianic age (which Chabad emphatically does not do).

Tucker Carlson knows exactly what he is doing. He knows that he lied about Chabad. He knows that Chabad is targeted by people who relish the killing of Jews. He knows that his lies may incite the killing of Jews.

To single out and incite against Chabad crossed an anti-Jewish line that cannot be forgiven.

It’s probably not coincidence, but Candace Owens also has launched a psychotic campaign against Chabad:

It’s not for nothing, but Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared are big supporters of Chabad, so Tucker indirectly (but purposefully) was attacking Trump’s family.

Chabad’s spokesman reponded:

Carlson’s @TuckerCarlson claim about Chabad and the Temple Mount is a slanderous lie. His implication that Chabad is behind the war in Iran is a dangerous blood libel.

Chabad’s focus is on encouraging mitzvos—good deeds—to bring more goodness into the world and hasten the coming of the Messiah, while living responsibly in the present. The Messianic vision is one of peace and harmony for all.

He is also wrong about the Temple patches. They did not come from Chabad. Had he done even basic research, that would be clear. It would also show that many who wear the Temple patches see them as symbols of faith and hope for peace, and a yearning for the day when there will be no more war.

Reckless rhetoric like this is dangerous and irresponsible. He should correct the record and apologize immediately.

Perhaps the timing is coincidence, but today Trump went on record kicking Tucker to the curb:

“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told me. “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.”

Good for Trump.

How about JD Vance, who owes his political career to Tucker and hired Tucker’s son? So far, nothing, but maybe that will change.

Reactions to follow.

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Something ate Tucker’s brain

If an Iranian missile were to hit Al-Aqsa, it would be poetic justice. If that were ever to happen, then yes, rebuild the temple and watch Carlson stew.

    Tucker probably doesn’t realize why Al-Aqsa was built where it is. Same reason Hagia Sophia is now a Mosque. According to Muslims and some Christians, Jews aren’t allowed to have Holy sites.

Well, he’s; not wrong that Chabad is very much about rebuilding the Temple. So is all of Judaism. The Temple is absolutely the most central thing in the Jewish religion. It’s impossible to have a Judaism without it. And for the past 1955 years it has existed with a Temple-shaped hole at its core. Almost every single aspect of Judaism is centered on that hole and on the belief that one day God will make it possible for us to fill it.

There was a very brief time under the Emperor Julian when it seemed that it was going to happen, but then he died and the hopes of Jews all over the world were crushed. Since then there has never been a time when it was possible. Perhaps it could have been done in late 1967 or early ’68, but by the end of ’68 the window had closed, if it was ever really open.

The “Reform Judaism” movement was an attempt to move on from that, and build an ersatz “Judaism” without the Temple and no longer regarding the Land of Israel as home. That’s why Reform houses of worship are called “Temples” rather than “Synagogues”. The idea is that they are the new Temple, and “Berlin is our new Jerusalem”. Well, we saw how that worked out. Reform has less in common with actual Judaism than do either Islam or most forms of Christianity.

So yes, Chabad is all about rebuilding the Temple. It’s been dedicated for centuries to bring that about. But of course starting a war with Iran is not a method that Chabad has either the means or the ambition to use; it’s not something that’s likely to achieve that goal, and even if it were, Chabad has nothing like the kind of influence necessary to do that. Rather its idea is to do good things in the world and make it a more holy and God-like place, and thus a place where God will make His presence known and allow it to be rebuilt,

    krb in reply to Milhouse. | March 5, 2026 at 7:49 pm

    Milhouse – to clarify your points – I don’t believe there are actual antisemites on this page (vs Althouse where there is a small number) – rebuilding the Temple is not something any Jew alive today believes he will accomplish by building an edifice. The physical Temple of this world is but a physical manifestation of the real spiritual Temple in the spiritual realm. We have no aspiration to build a physical Temple, really, but rather our good deeds build the spiritual reality and the spiritual Temple and the physical Temple is to be rebuilt when our good deeds bring King Moshiach – the messiah – and so fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy of the lion lying down with the lamb, man bending sword into plowshare, and neither shall man know war anymore.

    No Jew thinks the Temple will be rebuilt with brick. Rather our good deeds must merit the coming of the messiah for the whole world to live in messianic times. Only then – as the Isaiah prophecies manifest – do we merit to build the Temple. .

      Milhouse in reply to krb. | March 5, 2026 at 8:31 pm

      I have to disagree with you there. Rebuilding the Temple is very much about an actual physical building. But physically building it will be made possible by first making the world a more hospitable place for it, a place that allows it to be built.

      The physical Temple of this world is but a physical manifestation of the real spiritual Temple in the spiritual realm.

      You have that exactly backwards. The spiritual Temple is merely a reflection in higher realms of the physical Temple in this world. This is the place God made for His own dwelling (Exodus 15:17), the place where He can literally live among His people (Exodus 25:8). It’s very much our aspiration to build a physical Temple, and our good deeds are how we hope to make that possible.

      The Messiah is not an abstract concept, he’s literally a human being, just like any other. Not divine or supernatural, not an angel, just a normal person who will achieve great things and reign over his kingdom until he dies and is succeeded by his son. And in exactly the same way the Temple is not an abstract concept but an actual stone building which will be God’s address on earth. It’s the physical reality that will be reflected in spiritual realms, not the other way around.

      Milhouse in reply to krb. | March 6, 2026 at 1:52 am

      Further clarification of my above comment:

      One question that any religion must address is why God bothered creating the universe. After all, He is perfect, and thus doesn’t need anything, so why did He create anything? Not just this physical universe that we see and experience, but the entirety of creation: Heaven, angels, the myriad progression of spiritual realms, the Garden of Eden, any of it. Anything that isn’t Himself, anything that He made, what was His purpose?

      Chabad’s answer to this is that “The Holy One, blessed be He, craved a residence in the lower worlds”. This desire is specifically described as a “craving” (תאוה) because that means a desire that has no rational explanation. It’s prior to reason.

      When we want things, we can usually explain why. We want A because it’s the only way we can get B, and we want B because it will cause C, etc. But we get to a point, let’s say Z, and we ask “OK, why do I want Z? What benefit do I expect from Z?” and we can only answer that there is no explanation, that we simply want it, because that desire comes from a place that’s logically prior to reason. And that is a “craving”. By its inherent nature it can’t be explained.

      And Chabad teaches that God had such a craving to reside, not in some spiritual realm that’s naturally suited to Him, but specifically in the lowest and most physical possible world. To create such a world He created all the higher realms, an infinite hierarchy of them, each being the cause of the one below it, until He ended up with this world that we experience, which seems utterly devoid of anything but the physical.

      And it’s specifically in this world that He has an inexplicable “need” for a residence. To turn it into such a residence, to make one possible in this world, we must transform it by doing good. Each good deed makes the world a little better, a little more spiritual, a little more the sort of world where God’s home can be. Chabad has made it its mission to try to achieve that by encouraging everyone to do as much good as they can.

      That’s why Chabad rejects Zionism as a means of rebuilding the Temple and ending the Exile. It believes this goal simply can’t be achieved by political or military action. It supports Israel in the same sense that it supports the USA; but rejects the idea that the State of Israel has religious significance, that it’s a first installment on the Redemption. That has to come about through other means.

        BierceAmbrose in reply to Milhouse. | March 11, 2026 at 6:48 pm

        Why creation?

        “… and god divided himself into myriad parts, that he might have friends…”

        Obligatory Heinlein aphorism — paraphrased. Comes up several times in his later pieces.

        Chunks labeled under Hinduism, Buddhism, Tao, and some animisms have a different perspective on the god / creation distinction. “God” *is* “creation”; “unfolding” is not unfolding mechanically understood: the process is the perfection (<- couldn't resist that one.) The unfolding universe *is* the dance of Shiva, tho that distinction is perception n words, not the reality.

        The god / universe; creator / creation dichotomy seems more anchored in religions of mid-East origin. Maybe deserts cooking the sense out of people's brains, or maybe an environment that configures forest-adapted hominids into transcendent perceptions?

        They see visions and a superior god shows up and talks to them. Then, more often than not, they argue that they don't wanna do the thing.

        … so god divided himself into myriad parts because arguing is fun…?"

    The Gentle Grizzly in reply to Milhouse. | March 6, 2026 at 12:45 am

    My late brother and I discussed our religious upbringing and wondered if we would have been religious if we’d been brought up in a different sect. As it is, we both present to reform temple, and both of us ended up rejecting it. It was just a social club, and your level in the hierarchy was based strictly on the clothes you wore, and the cars your parents drove.

Ridiculous comment. Carlson did not say Chabad is very much about rebuilding the Temple. So is all of Judaism. He said “Could this be a religious war designed to rebuild the Third Temple on the ashes of Al
Aqsa?” Of course, he just asking.

You actually acknowledge that “starting a war with Iran is not a method that Chabad has either the means or the ambition to use; it’s not something that’s likely to achieve that goal, and even if it were, Chabad has nothing like the kind of influence necessary to do that.”

So he IS wrong, and your characterization that he isn’t is wrong, too! So why write a comment that starts with a falsity?

    He’s wrong that Chabad started this war. He’s very much NOT wrong about Chabad’s ambition to replace the “desolate abomination” (Daniel 12:11) with the Third Temple. All Jews have that ambition, but Chabad is particularly dedicated to bringing it about.

    What he’s wrong about is the means Chabad wants to use to bring that about. Chabad has never believed that it can be done by political influence or waging wars. Chabad is anti-Zionist, and doesn’t recognize the State of Israel as part of God’s plan to rescue His people and rebuild the Temple. It regards Israel merely as a country where millions of Jews live, and thus whose security is vital. It feels the same way about the USA.

    It believes that the only way it can be done is by transforming the world, one good deed at a time, so that it becomes less hostile and more receptive to holiness. Then building the Temple will become possible, without triggering a worldwide massacre of Jews.

      Which is exactly the point: He’s wrong! Not to mention his hatred of Jews. He focused on the means by claiming Chabad fomented the war, not the long path articulated, which seems hardly relevant to the power machinations he is trying to effect, and Trump’s response thereto.

      johnny dollar in reply to Milhouse. | March 5, 2026 at 11:35 pm

      I have never seen any evidence, with about 25 years of exposure to Chabad, that it is “anti-Zionist”.

      I have never heard any Chabad rabbi express that opinion, and I have heard hundreds of Chabad rabbis speak on various topics.

        Milhouse in reply to johnny dollar. | March 6, 2026 at 1:59 am

        Ask a Chabad rabbi directly, and tell him you really want the truth and won’t throw a fit when you hear it. Ask him why there is no Israeli flag at the Chabad House, why Hatikvah is never sung, why Israeli independence day is completely ignored. It’s because while Chabad supports Israel as a country, it rejects any idea that it has spiritual significance, that it’s a first installment on the end of the Exile. Most outreach rabbis are uncomfortable talking about this to outsiders, because they won’t understand it and will imagine that Chabad has some resemblance to those anti-zionist lunatics who want Israel destroyed, God forbid. Quite the contrary.

        Milhouse in reply to johnny dollar. | March 6, 2026 at 2:54 am

        There are other things that Chabad rabbis will be reluctant to discuss with outsiders.

        For instance, while well over 90% of Chabadniks vote Republican, Chabad as a movement is strictly nonpartisan. It aims to be a welcoming place for all people, and that includes Democrats.

        Chabad has been officially nonpartisan since at least 1927 that I know of, and I’m confident that was the policy earlier too, but I’m not aware of any specific official statements to that effect from before that.

        So if you ask your Chabad rabbi or rebbetzin how they vote they will probably decline to answer, out of concern that they might alienate you or make you feel less comfortable talking to them or attending their center. If they know you’re 100% Republican then they might relax and let you know that they are too, but if they don’t know you that well they’ll be careful.

Johnny Cache | March 5, 2026 at 7:47 pm

I don’t follow Tucker Carlson, what happened? When he first showed up on the scene at the end of the previous century, he seemed like he was gonna be a big star but never achieved that. Why? Something seemed off about the guy, I have no idea, but at the time I remember thinking – what do people know about him? Was it nefarious? Because the feeling I got was like people knew something nefarious about him. Maybe this was BS on my part.

Then he became that big star and went off the deep end. Why? Was he always a kook and just never had the clout to let it fly? Is someone paying him tons of money to talk stupid?

Just a weird career path.

    guyjones in reply to Johnny Cache. | March 5, 2026 at 8:00 pm

    I think Carlson is a sociopathic narcissist who craves attention and controversy, first and foremost, and, yeah, I think getting paid millions of dollars by Qatar, being gifted a free house in Doha, having his wretched show/podcast funded by the Qatari regime, and myriad other perks and filthy lucre that we don’t know about, are sufficient motivation for this vile puke to spew his persistent Jew-hate and anti-Israel vilification, and, Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist whitewashing and sanitization.

The greasy, self-enriching, self-debasing, mendacious and slavish Qatari prostitute, Tucker Qatar-lson (as some wit memorably dubbed this piece of excrement).

Tucker Carlson has indeed become loathsome.

As a Christian positioned somewhere between the ReformedConfessions (Three Forms of Unity; Westminster Standards; Second Helvetic) and Pietism, I do not believe the Temple will be rebuilt. Jesus Christ made the final atonement, so there has been no need for the Temple ever since. I also believe that the Chosen People of God are clustered about Jesus the Messiah; not in some piece of Middle Eastern land. If I am pro-Israel, it is because I respect a state with a functioning respect for rights (including minority ones) and an ally of the USA; not because I believe that this is some harbinger of the Second Advent.

But, whatever theological differences I have with Judaism, I see Carlson spewing nothing but calumnies and lies. This war was launched over forty years ago when the mad mullahs in Iran seized the US Embassy and held its staff hosage, telling the world that the only relationship that could possibly exist between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USA would be a hostile one; and their vow to wipe Israel off the map could not have been a plainer declaration of hostility.

I am not for intervention. I would much prefer for the Iranian mullahocracy to have to yield to its own “angry and defrauded young”. I admit that I shuddered at both Obama’s and Trump’s priomising Iranian dissenters that we had their back (you don’t walk loudly and carry no stick); but, I see Trump is now backing words with action. With that happening, I can only pray for the best.

Chabad are a wonderful branch of Judaism. They go everywhere talk to everyone and live fearlessly. Yes they are messianic but certainly they are not violent . They are no more harmful than born again Christians. Targeting them is disgusting and disgraceful and it’s obviously about picking an easy target as they live openly Jewish and are easy to spot given their traditional clothing. He’s othering them as being weird and strange ; just like targeting a Seikh who wears a turban. I personally worship st a Chabad house and can say they are super pro Trump and were from the very beginning long before 2023. Ultimately Chabad is far more MAGA than Tucker.

E Howard Hunt | March 5, 2026 at 8:50 pm

I can tell you that when Opus Dei buys a house in a residential neighborhood, it does not lower property values by ignoring all zoning regulations and creating a litany of nuisances, and then screaming discrimination when complaints are made. This is very unlike some other religious sects.

    schmuul in reply to E Howard Hunt. | March 5, 2026 at 9:00 pm

    You’ve always had a problem with Orthodox Jews living near you and that’s your issue. Try moving. Deal with it or not but leave your nasty “ Jews are lowering the property values “ Archie Bunker crap out of a serious discussion; and take your hate somewhere else. It’s honestly pathetic and so 1970’s.

      Milhouse in reply to schmuul. | March 5, 2026 at 9:06 pm

      Schuul, leave Archie out of it. Archie was wonderful, and not in any way antisemitic! He was a genuine person who took everyone as he found them. Any Jew would welcome him as a neighbor. Unlike Hunt.

      E Howard Hunt in reply to schmuul. | March 5, 2026 at 9:07 pm

      You are so wrong about me! I intentionally moved into an orthodox jewish neighborhood and my next door neighbor and friend is a rabbi. Unlike neighboring Christian neighborhoods, everyone maintains his house immaculately, sparing no expense. That was until 10 years ago when a Chabad group bought a house. They have utterly ruined the neighborhood and nobody is more upset than my Jewish neighbors and friends.

        schmuul in reply to E Howard Hunt. | March 5, 2026 at 11:22 pm

        So you have a neighborhood dispute with one Chabad honestly that doesn’t give you the right to call them dirty or suggest they started the war with Iran. I have had disputes with many neighbors over the years but I don’t attribute it to their ethnicity or religion or stereotype every person from that background.

    Milhouse in reply to E Howard Hunt. | March 5, 2026 at 9:04 pm

    When a Chabad representative buys a house in a neighborhood and establishes a Chabad House it does not lower property values; it usually raises them, by attracting more Jews to buy houses there.

    Chabad does not apologize for enforcing its legal rights under RLUIPA, and fighting illegal zoning regulations that are motivated by hostility either to all religion or specifically to Judaism. No one has the right to have his neighborhood stay the same forever.

      E Howard Hunt in reply to Milhouse. | March 5, 2026 at 9:12 pm

      You are ignoring my point. My
      Jewish neighbors in my
      Jewish neighborhood are incensed. They are angrier than I am because they seem very familiar with this group’s MO.

        Milhouse in reply to E Howard Hunt. | March 5, 2026 at 9:18 pm

        Secular Jews who are hostile to actual Judaism.

          E Howard Hunt in reply to Milhouse. | March 5, 2026 at 9:23 pm

          Are you calling them Jewish antisemites?

          Milhouse in reply to Milhouse. | March 6, 2026 at 2:58 am

          No, antisemites are hostile to Jews. Some Jews are antisemites, but many more are not, but are hostile to Judaism, or indeed to all religion. Or they’re hostile merely to the public practice of Judaism, to those who flaunt their Judaism and don’t try to hide it. The old “enlightened” slogan was “Be a Jew at home and a man when you go out”.

          Milhouse in reply to Milhouse. | March 6, 2026 at 3:35 am

          The people who founded the State of Israel and governed it for decades were not antisemites but they were hostile to Judaism.

        schmuul in reply to E Howard Hunt. | March 5, 2026 at 11:26 pm

        Here’s the real point your petty neighborhood quarrels give you no special insight into the Chabad movement or who they are as a people. I don’t bitch about my neighbors on this forum go on the Nextdoor app if that’s what you want to do.

Well I’ve already commented on TC and Vance in past articles. I will say again that MTG is a F’g moron and I’d like to know whose payroll she’s on now.

For the record Jews advise, Jews council, Jews suggest, Jews influence but there has never been a Jewish president or VP and so Jews never have
directed the US to engage in any conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter.

The US does not fight Israel’s wars. No US service personnel have died for Israel. The US fights wars that it believes are in its own interests, interests that not everyone in the US or elsewhere will agree with.

In addition to Jews, every single other group advices, councils, suggests and influences. This includes blacks, hispanics, globalists, muslims, christians, atheists, and so on. Every Single Group. Some might be more effective or persuasive than others. It doesn’t matter. The wars or conflicts the US has engaged in has always been the responsibility of the President at the time, and will always be the responsibility of the President. This is how our system of government operates.

I understand why Jewish people are angered and feel threatened by the Terrible Three. On the other hand, I don’t think that Carlson, Owens, and MTG have a lot of actual political influence.

    Sanddog in reply to Tom Orrow. | March 6, 2026 at 12:49 am

    When prominent figures express blatant antisemitism, it gives other people “permission” to speak and act on their own hatred.

    schmuul in reply to Tom Orrow. | March 6, 2026 at 10:24 am

    My concern isn’t so much their impact on conservatives as thsoe 3 cleraly aren’t really conservatives, they are just grifters that figured out Jew hatred is big money. My concern is about their impact on “independents” or the fence sitter types. Hatred is an easy sell it feels good and empowering to have a nice simple enemy; someone to blame for everything wrong in the world. It also unites independents to Democrats since they all can agree to hate Jews.

Tucker is bitter because he feels that Fox threw him under the wheels of the bus and sacrificed him over the lawsuit with smartmatic.

    Milhouse in reply to smooth. | March 7, 2026 at 7:03 am

    Which is because he was largely responsible for that fiasco. He’s the one who knowingly lied about them, and cost Fox a fortune. Fox didn’t tell him to do that, but it had to pay.

Persian Gulf countries don’t have free speech rights. Its matter of time before he offends the wrong people and gets kicked out of Qatar, or worse disappears in basement of consulate.

TC and others whining about the USA cooperating with Israel and now multiple Nations to curb stomp the Iranian regime are flat wrong. The Iranian regime has earned a thorough ass kicking from the USA. Did Israel influence the decision diplomatically? Probably. Even if we grant the timing to the influence of the Israeli govt and their surrogates in the USA (let’s not pretend they don’t exist) it doesn’t change the reality that the Iranian regime is not just hostile to the USA but has actively targeted and killed US Citizens and US military personnel earning their well deserved thrashing. The USA cooperating with Israel to kick the stuffing out of a common enemy is an example of ‘America First’. In the immediate term the Israeli military is running missions not demanding the USA do the heavy lifting for them. In the longer term removing the Iranian regime spends the board in the middle east, significantly lowering the threat level and reducing the national security interests of the USA in the region, allowing more focus and more military assets to be used in our own hemisphere to reestablish our hegemony.

I think Tucker is broke and is doing this for money. In my opinion, he is the quintessential sellout.

    schmuul in reply to MattR. | March 6, 2026 at 10:25 am

    I agree he just figured out the formula: Jew hatred sells. It gets you eyeballs on your videos and big fat endorsements from Qatar.

Tucker was a Neocon, then MAGA, then Neocon again, sadly.

Re Chabbad: while they do outreach to all “Jews,” they do not consider those who were converted to Judaism by non-orthodox rabbis as Jewish, regardless of how pius and righteous they are.

    Milhouse in reply to lawdoc. | March 7, 2026 at 6:55 pm

    That’s right. If someone was not born a US citizen, and was not naturalized by someone authorized by law to do so, and in accord with the “uniform rule of naturalization” that Congress has made, then it doesn’t matter how enthusiastic he is about the USA, how devoted he is to its ideals and principles, how well-versed he is in its history, in its founders’ writings, and in its laws, let alone how much he likes hot dogs and apple pie, he’s still not a US citizen.

    Citizenship in the Jewish nation works exactly the same way. To be a Jew you must either be born that way, or naturalized in accord with the law. A “naturalization” conducted by some random person, especially one who himself doesn’t believe in or keep the law, is no better than a US “naturalization” conducted by some scammer who doesn’t work for the US government in any capacity.

Dean Robinson | March 7, 2026 at 10:23 pm

Carlson has indeed experienced a major malfunction, and is now trolling to become the most odious wrecking ball in American political history. He craves attention of any type, but especially savors any negatives from those in power. Our VP is running a grave risk by allowing any association with this repulsive raconteur, so hopefully now that his boss has boss has weighed in he will do the same and renounce Carlson unequivocally, and quickly, before his own credibility with sane conservatives self-destructs.