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Tucker Carlson Blows Up Trump’s Wild Boast By Exposing Major Problem Behind It

Tucker Carlson reacted unhappily to Donald Trump's boast that he could become the prime minister of Israel.

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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump said, probably jokingly, that he’s so popular in Israel that he could get elected as that country’s prime minister, once he’s done being president.

“I’m right now at 99 percent in Israel,” he said to reporters before taking off to attend the Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony in Connecticut. “I could run for prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel, run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I’m 99 percent, so that’s good.” It’s not clear whether there’s any actual poll showing Trump with anywhere near that level of support in Israel.

That statement drew the ire of commentator Tucker Carlson, whose relationship with Trump has waxed and waned over the years, although in recent months, Carlson has been angry at Trump over the Iran war, for which Carlson believes Trump is doing the bidding of Israel. Carlson, in fact, has been so critical of Israel that he’s sometimes been accused of antisemitism.

“The president of the United States bragging about his popularity in a foreign country: ‘I’m 99 percent in Israel,’” Carlson said on his show this week, as cited by The Daily Beast.

“Unmentioned is the fact that he’s 35 percent in the United States. Thirty-five percent support from Americans, the people he pledged to represent, to fight for, whose side he promised to take in every conflict, foreign and domestic… And yet, there he is, bragging about how popular he is in a foreign country, the same country that got us into the war that is causing, to some extent, his unpopularity in this country, speaking of cold-hearted globalist betrayals.”

Trump, meanwhile, had denounced Carlson, back in March, as “not MAGA.”

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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