A simmering feud between former Fox News colleagues is threatening to break out into open warfare as major media personalities begin to personally lobby President Donald Trump about his plans to negotiate a peace deal with Iran.
In an exclusive interview, Tucker Carlson reacted to news that Fox News host Mark Levin recently met with Trump and Steve Witkoff, the president’s top Middle East envoy, to urge them against seeking peace with the unstable Islamic nation. Levin, on numerous occasions, has used his show to chastise the Trump administration over its pursuit of peace.
“It’s amazing how much old people love wars,” Carlson said, a slighting reference to Levin and his war-hawk stance with respect to Iran.
Levin is not the only titan at Fox News to complain about the president’s attempt to negotiate with the ayatollahs. Fox founder Rupert Murdoch has reportedly discouraged the deal, too, with his New York Post paper running multiple columns expressing doubt about Iran’s sincerity in negotiating a peaceful future for its nuclear program.
Carlson, who formerly worked with Levin at Fox, is a famously anti-war Trump supporter who opposes any future possibility of putting troops in the Middle East. His career came