Tucker Carlson, former Fox News personality and now podcast provocateur, set the MAGA world ablaze last week when he suggested that “unconditional surrender,” the benchmark for victory over Iran laid out by President Donald Trump, means the military is given permission to rape women in the war zone.
“Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want — and everyone knows that,” he stated in an interview on another podcast.
No, everyone does not know that, nor do we even want to consider that our men — sons and brothers and fathers, the beloved U.S. military, would ever do something so horrific, so evil as to violate innocent women and girls in war.
Former and current military are rightly outraged by his comments. Political leaders and pundits have condemned his words.
Carlson is opposed to the U.S. attack on Iran and the conflict that has ensued, calling it “absolutely disgusting and evil.” With these latest comments, his fallout with Trump will likely be complete. Trump said in an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Carlson “has lost his way… he is not MAGA … and Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”
What Carlson clearly understands is how to get attention. The more outrageous the comments, the more clicks and views and cash in his pocket. And, for him, more power, more influence and ability to manipulate minds.
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