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The Iran war in the age of memes and online battlefields<\/p>\n

The White House’s ‘memeification’ of war on social media softens impact of war, according to psychologists.<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson called President Donald Trump<\/a> a “slave” to Israel and said his handling of their war on Iran<\/a> is “awful to watch” as the feud between the two continues to escalate.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve always liked Trump and still feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves,” the former Fox News host told Newsmax on April 10.<\/a> He added that Trump “can’t make his own decisions” and that the president is “hemmed in by other forces.”<\/p>\n

Carlson doubled down on his interpretation of the president when asked whether he thinks Trump is a “slave to Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>” in an interview on the BBC’s “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg” on April 12.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it is as simple as ‘he is under the control of Netanyahu,’ but you could certainly summarize it that way and you wouldn\u2019t be totally inaccurate,” Carlson said, clarifying he blamed Israel for the U.S. entering the war<\/a>. “We know this because the single biggest mistake Trump \u2013 or any American president in my lifetime \u2013 has made was going to war with Iran in an effort to change its regime.”<\/p>\n

Iran war fallout: Support for Israel hits new low in US, new poll shows<\/a><\/p>\n

When Kuenssberg pointed to past presidents who “said no to Benjamin Netanyahu” Tucker agreed and said: “They did and I wish our president had, but he didn’t.”<\/p>\n

“The Israeli government, this is documented<\/a> and I saw it personally, steered the United States into a war that hurts the United States and the world,” Carlson added.<\/p>\n

USA TODAY has reached out to the White House for a response.<\/p>\n

The comments come days after Trump called Carlson and other MAGA-aligned critics of the war “low IQ,” irrelevant and publicity hungry in\u00a0an April 9 social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Nobody\u2019s talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA \u2212 Or I wouldn\u2019t have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE,” Trump wrote, adding, “MAGA agrees with me.” He said of Carlson in the post that “he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he\u2019s never been the same.”<\/p>\n

The Iran war has prompted strong pushback from some prominent Trump-aligned media figures<\/a>, with the president’s dramatic threats against the country intensifying the debate on the right.<\/p>\n

Carlson called Trump’s expletive-laden Easter Sunday threat against Iranian civilian infrastructure “a war crime” and “a moral crime”<\/a> in the April 6 episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show.” Former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u00a0called for Trump to be removed from office<\/a>\u00a0after the president threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” in an April 7 social media post.<\/p>\n

Conservative critics<\/a> have said that the war goes against the anti-interventionist “America First” promises that brought Trump back to the White House. Some argued that Trump ran for president as a critic of past Middle East conflicts, and his non-interventionist approach became central to the MAGA movement. Podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0the Iran war has people feeling \u201cbetrayed\u201d by a president who \u201cran on no more wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polls show the Iran war is broadly unpopular; however, most Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the conflict.\u00a0A CNN survey<\/a>\u00a0released April 1 found that while just 33% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling Iran, 73% of Republicans approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iran war in the age of memes and online battlefields The White House’s ‘memeification’ of war on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24184,19466,2415,41,23955,1891,5979,24187,177,2524,38,5296,24188,2093,23954,1277,13203,4504,105,34,24010,24018,37,17420,23960,558,24191,19551,876,22068,24185,42,15188,23961,5975,11020,81,24183,398,23957,6386,17689,601,10717,10092,392,24189,24182,3717,9560,24190,23953,36,23958,16780,24186],"class_list":{"0":"post-64115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-benjamin","11":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","12":"tag-branch","13":"tag-carlson","14":"tag-central","15":"tag-central-region","16":"tag-conflict","17":"tag-donald","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-east","20":"tag-east-region","21":"tag-entertainment","22":"tag-executive","23":"tag-executive-branch","24":"tag-fatigue","25":"tag-fox","26":"tag-fox-news","27":"tag-iran","28":"tag-iran-united","29":"tag-iran-united-states-tensions","30":"tag-israel","31":"tag-joe","32":"tag-joe-rogan","33":"tag-local","34":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","35":"tag-negative","36":"tag-netanyahu","37":"tag-network","38":"tag-network-trending","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-overall","41":"tag-overall-negative","42":"tag-political","43":"tag-political-science","44":"tag-politics","45":"tag-programs","46":"tag-region","47":"tag-rogan","48":"tag-science","49":"tag-shows","50":"tag-states","51":"tag-tensions","52":"tag-trending","53":"tag-trump","54":"tag-trump-fatigue","55":"tag-tucker","56":"tag-tucker-carlson","57":"tag-tv","58":"tag-tv-shows-u0026-programs","59":"tag-u0026","60":"tag-war","61":"tag-war-u0026-conflict","62":"tag-west","63":"tag-west-region"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}