Tucker Carlson: Trump needs to be removed from office ‘immediately’

Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson said Friday that President Trump should be removed from office if he is considering using nuclear weapons first, saying even entertaining the possibility should disqualify a president from serving.

“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 made the comments during a conversation with Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who resigned earlier this year in opposition to the war with Iran.

Carlson, who noted that he strongly opposed both efforts to impeach Trump during his first term, questioned why the same standard would not apply if a president were weighing a nuclear first strike.

“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 said he is considering using a nuclear weapon first.

Carlson’s comments come as he raised concerns about both the administration’s approach to Iran and a nuclear strategy being developed at the Pentagon.

Earlier this month, Under Secretary of Defense for policy Elbridge Colby said at a conference that officials are looking to give the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “credible, rational nuclear options.”

Kent said he was concerned about where the administration could turn if conventional military options fail to get the outcome Trump wants 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.

Trump and Carlson, who was once an ally of the MAGA movement and of Trump, have clashed in recent months over their opposing views on foreign policy, with Carlson being a vocal opponent of the Iran war.

Trump last week bashed Carlson on Truth Social, calling him a “loser” for meeting with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).