Tucker Carlson on Trump's MOU with Iran: “A pretty humiliating loss for the United States”
Carlson: “This is why people opposed a regime change war against Iran, because this was always going to happen”
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From the June 17, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So there's kind of no lying about this. This is maybe good for the United States long-term, you could certainly argue that, and one hopes it will be, one prays that it will be. It'll be better than what we have now, that's for sure. But it is impossible, from this text, assuming this is real, and we think that it is, it is absolutely impossible to say this is in any sense a win for the United States, because it's not.
This is a pretty humiliating loss for the United States, and as an American, certainly not gloating about that at all. This is a loss. This is, by the way, the reason that you wouldn't want to start this war in the first place, because it could only end as it has ended. And the people, by the way, who pushed to start this, notably the Israelis and their unregistered agents in the United States, knew that, of course. Because diminishing the United States, and reducing its footprint, and power, and influence in the Middle East was part of the plan.
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CARLSON: With this, the United States has shown that it does not have, despite possessing the world's best or biggest or certainly most generously funded military, does not have the military power to impose its will on the thirty-fourth biggest economy in the world. That is not a lesson that we're gonna take decades to come to. That is an extremely obvious conclusion. In fact, that is the obvious conclusion of this document. Again, for good or bad, and there's something poignant about it, there's something sad about it. There's something also bitter about it, considering it was predictable. This is why people opposed a regime change war against Iran, because this was always going to happen.