Right-Wing Figures Revolt Over Trump’s Genocide Threat
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
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Sam Stein and Will Sommer react to Donald Trump’s shocking post suggesting that an entire Iranian civilization could be wiped out and the rare backlash now emerging from inside MAGA. From Tucker Carlson’s stunning attack on Trump’s rhetoric to reactions from figures like Alex Jones and Candace Owens, the right is showing signs of fracture over the prospect of war with Iran. Even longtime allies are calling Trump’s rhetoric dangerous.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein. Back again with Will Summer. It's not a Maga Monday. It's Tuesday. |
| 0:08.1 | We are coming to you mere hours before what could be, I don't know what you want to call it, the wiping of the civilization of Iran off the map day. |
| 0:21.2 | We say this because early this morning,, Trump, Donald Trump, bleated. |
| 0:25.5 | A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back in. |
| 0:27.8 | I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. |
| 0:30.6 | However, now that we have the complete and total regime change, |
| 0:33.2 | we're different and smarter, less radicalized minds prevail. |
| 0:36.0 | Maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. |
| 0:38.9 | Who knows? |
| 0:39.4 | Question mark, question mark. |
| 0:40.1 | So this is scary shit, obviously, and it's very rare for a president to talk like this. |
| 0:46.5 | Never happens that they talk like this openly. |
| 0:49.5 | But there's a lot of uproar in the sort of Trump angry MAGA right or previously MAGA right. |
| 0:57.7 | And we're going to play a bit of this. The first actually comes from before this was posted. |
| 1:03.6 | It's from Tucker Carlson. And Will, why don't you set it up? Because Tucker's got his show. |
| 1:08.0 | Obviously, Tucker is having some issues with Trump. Tucker's not for the war. |
| 1:12.1 | But I didn't expect him to go this far. Yeah, I mean, as you said, I mean, Tucker's been kind of walking his way up to finally criticizing Trump for even after the bomb started falling. He started saying, well, you know, maybe Israel tricked Trump. And then when Trump said, you know, maybe we'll leave the straight of war moves. That's not our problem. Tucker loved that. |
| 1:29.6 | So he's been kind of saying said, you know, maybe we'll leave the straight of war moves. That's not our problem. Tucker loved that. So he's been kind of saying that, you know, Trump's being misled for the most part. But then on a Monday night, he came out with this video where, I mean, essentially he starts arguing that Trump is the Antichrist. He starts saying, you know, Trump is trying to make himself bigger than God. |
| 1:44.7 | He's this anti-Christian figure. |
| 1:46.2 | He didn't dare put his hand on the Bible to be sworn in. |
| 1:49.4 | I mean, a lot of crazy stuff or maybe not so crazy. |
| 1:51.9 | I don't know. |
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