Tucker Carlson: Trump Needs To Be Removed From Office “Immediately”

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said Friday that President Trump should be immediately removed from office if he is actively considering the first use of nuclear weapons, arguing that merely contemplating such a move should render any president unfit to serve.

“The second any president actively considers the first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s got to be the red line, destroying all of humanity with a nuclear strike,” Carlson said.

Carlson delivered the sharp criticism during a discussion with Joe Kent, who previously served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center before resigning earlier this year over his opposition to the war with Iran.

Pointing to his own opposition to both attempts to impeach Trump during the president’s first term, Carlson questioned why an effort to remove a president would not be justified if that president were actually considering launching a nuclear weapon first.

“Why isn’t there an attempt to remove him from office, like, immediately?” Carlson said. “Anyone who would even tolerate that kind of talk from any of his subordinates or employees is by definition unfit.”

Trump has not publicly stated that he is considering a first-use nuclear strike.

Carlson’s remarks come amid his increasingly vocal criticism of the Trump administration’s policies toward Iran, as well as concerns he has raised about the nuclear strategy currently being developed at the Pentagon.

Earlier in August, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby said during a conference that officials are working to provide the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with “credible, rational nuclear options.”

Kent said during his conversation with Carlson that he fears the administration could consider increasingly drastic measures if conventional military action fails to achieve Trump’s objectives in Iran.

“I think we would be fools to think that this couldn’t happen here in this current scenario, especially as the administration scrambles for a way out,” he said.

The comments are the latest sign of the widening divide between Carlson and Trump over American foreign policy. Carlson, who was previously a prominent ally of Trump and the MAGA movement, has become an outspoken critic of the war with Iran.

Trump, in turn, has increasingly attacked Carlson publicly.

Last week, Trump blasted Carlson on Truth Social, calling him a “loser” after Carlson met with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

{Matzav.com}