Tucker Carlson explains himself

图克·卡尔森为自己辩解

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2026-04-03

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President Trump has not made a coherent case for the Iran war. On today's show, one of his longtime supporters makes an aggressive case against it…and talks about conservatives' Nazi problem. This episode was produced by Ariana Aspuru, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Andrea López-Cruzado and Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Tucker Carlson, host of The Tucker Carlson Show, at the White House. Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • It's Today Explained.

  • President Trump has not made a coherent case for his war in Iran.

  • And last night he said he's not ending it yet.

  • We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.

  • We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.

  • His ally, Tucker Carlson, has been making a very coherent case against the war.

  • Because it doesn't serve American interests in any conceivable way.

  • And let me just say.

  • That if it does in some way serve the interests of the United States, I'd love to hear it.

  • I haven't heard.

  • On Tuesday, we asked Carlson about his break with Trump and about how the Trump coalition is splintering as some young conservatives

  • abandon the president and embrace something darker.

  • It becomes like all of a sudden like, hey, you kids, why are you listening to Elvis Presley and that rock music is bad?

  • Like all of a sudden, Fuentes controls the conversation and becomes the cool kid.

  • And the net effect is to make the Holocaust a joke.

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