Tucker Carlson Says President Trump Should 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.

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Tucker calls for Trump’s removal after nuke threats:

“I believe in stability. I think elected leaders should serve out their terms. I don’t hate Trump personally. With all of that said, the second any president actively considers first use of nuclear weapons, that person…

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 29, 2026

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President Donald Trump has ramped up his criticism of former loyalists, including conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, ahead of November’s crucial midterm elections.

“Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight ‘Former’ Congressman, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene, LOSERS ALL! Tucker’s ‘Views’ have fallen through the floor, and will only get worse,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Aug. 21, also referring to the outgoing Rep. Massie, R-Kentucky.

Trump calling out his former allies comes as he’s facing negative approval ratings among many Americans, particularly over his handling of the Iran war. In recent months, his coveted endorsement has also been stress-tested in primaries across the nation as voters consider the economic impacts of a second Trump administration. That’s ahead of the midterms, which are typically low points for presidencies.

Carlson, Massie and Greene have all broken with Trump in recent years. Carlson said in July that he was making a third party after his break with the president, according to an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review.

In early August, Greene – who resigned from office in November 2025 after a public feud with the president and now is a fierce critic of him – posted a photo on X of a group of leading MAGA rebels in the Republican Party convened, saying their “movement has begun.”

Prominent leaders in the photo besides Greene were Carlson, Massie – who lost his reelection primary this year after public feuds with Trump – and Joe Kent, former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned from his position in March over opposing military action in Iran.

“We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he’s betrayed us all,” Greene said in her Aug. 1 post. “Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center.”

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