Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host and occasional Trump contact, had even called Trump that week and told him he could forget about re-election if he got into a war with Iran. Minutes after pulling the plug on the strike, Trump turned on his television to catch the opening monologue of Carlson’s 8 p.m. show on Fox. Carlson praised Trump for resisting military intervention. “The same people who lured us into the Iraq quagmire sixteen years ago are demanding a new war, this one with Iran,” Carlson said. “The president, to his great credit, appears to be skeptical of this—very skeptical.”[18]
