Tucker Carlson called Israel’s influence over the United States “humiliating” in a rant targeting both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Carlson joined Glenn Greenwald on the System Update podcast this week, where he defended his criticism of Israel amid the country’s ongoing war with the terror group Hamas. Carlson has been one of the more vocal conservative voices criticizing US support of Israel and the country’s expansive strikes on Gaza.
Carlson accused Netanyahu of “running around” and bragging about the “control” he has over U.S. leaders.
The former Fox News host argued:
Bibi’s running around — this is a fact, I’m not guessing about this because I talked to people he said it to — is running around the Middle East, his region in his own country and telling people point blank, just stating it, “I control the United States. I control Donald Trump.” He’s saying that — and again I’m not guessing at all, that’s a fact. I dare them to say that’s not true because it is true. They know it’s true. I’m an American. How do you think it makes me feel even if I didn’t vote for Trump, which I did, I campaigned for Trump, but even if I even if was Joe Biden. I’m an American, you can’t treat — It’s too humiliating. I can’t handle that, and I shouldn’t have to put up with that.
Carlson made clear he was attacking the leaders of his own country more so than Israel. U.S. leaders, he argued, are being put through a “humiliation ritual” in their support of Israel.
He said:
I’m attacking my leaders who are allowing my nation of 350 million people to be forced into doing things that are bad for me and my children because of some other country, like, that is it a violation of the most basic arrangement we have with our leaders which is represent us please — at least most of the time and they’re not — and there’s an ongoing humiliation ritual designed to make us all crazy, designed to turn us into haters, I’m not gonna give them the satisfaction of becoming what they call me. I’m a not a hater, and I’m never gonna become one. But I will never accept this. I shouldn’t have to accept it. I have nothing to be ashamed of.
He referred to Israel’s war as an “expansion” and accused critics of only responding to his critiques by getting personal and labeling him a “bigot.”
“They just scream at you and call you names, and I guess I’m just blessed because I don’t believe that about myself, so that doesn’t hurt me,” Carlson said. “You know, if they said, well you’ve gained 10 pounds, you might hurt my feelings. But calling me a bigot doesn’t because I know that I’m not.”
Watch above via System Update.
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