Tucker Carlson Spits Out 2-Word Response To Trump's Claim That He Called The President To Apologize
Just days after the former Fox News host made the comments in a June 13 newsletter posted on his website, the POTUS alleged to reporters in the Oval Office that the conservative pundit reached out to him to bury the hatchet.
'He called and apologized the other day because he thought he had said things that were a little bit too strong, and I appreciate that,' Trump said on June 18.
Trump also referred to Carlson as 'kooky' in a pointed June 16 post on his social platform Truth Social.
'Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, 'IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!'' he wrote.
In a new interview with German newspaper Bild, Carlson denied that the call ever took place.
After the outlet's editor-in-chief, Paul Ronzheimer, asked Carlson if Trump's claims about the phone call were true, he replied, 'Okay... no.'
'No? It's not true?' Ronzheimer questioned again.
'No, I will say this … I don't care. I really like Trump. I campaigned for Trump. I just, to say it again, I agree with Trump, I have agreed with Trump on the issues,' Carlson said in the interview released Sunday.
The political commentator went on to say that despite Trump's statement about the call not being factual, he would be 'happy to apologize' to the president.
'I'd be happy … I am the first to apologize because I am most mindful of my limits, and my own absurdities and the nonsense that I have spouted over the years,' Carlson said. 'Like, I don't think I'm God, and so I'm happy to apologize. And you can ask anyone who knows me, I'm an apologizer.'
Ronzheimer then doubled down, asking Carlson, 'So you're apologizing now, publicly? Do I understand right?'
Carlson responded: 'I don't know what I'd apologize for. I didn't attack Trump then. I disagreed with him … I don't think anything [was said] that would warrant an apology.'
White House officials didn't immediately respond to HuffPost's requests for comment.
The day after Carlson's newsletter published, Trump denied the U.S. had any involvement in Israel's attack on Iran in a June 13 post on Truth Social.
'The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight,' Trump wrote. 'If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before.'
On June 21, U.S. forces struck three Iranian nuclear sites in a 'very successful attack,' Trump said in a televised Oval Office address. He added that Tehran's nuclear program had been wiped out.
Watch Carlson's interview below.
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