Tucker Carlson warned Monday that U.S. involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict could bring down President Donald Trump and mark the collapse of America’s global influence.

In an appearance on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom, Carlson argued a full-scale war in the Middle East could derail Trump’s second term and devastate the country’s standing globally.

“I actually really love Trump. I think he’s a deeply humane, kind person,” Carlson said. “But I’m really afraid that my country’s gonna be further weakened by this. I think we’re gonna see the end of the American empire.

He added, “But it’s also going to end, I believe, Trump’s presidency and effectively end it.”

The comments follow a series of attacks Carlson has launched in recent days against Trump, Fox News hosts, and other conservative establishment figures for backing U.S. support of Israeli military action against Iran.

Last week, he accused Trump of betraying “America First” by fueling conflict abroad, prompting a rare rebuke from the former president.

“I’m the one that decides that,” Trump fired back in an interview with The Atlantic.

Carlson also attacked Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, as well as its founder, Rupert Murdoch, as “warmongers.” He wrote that they “will all have to answer for this” in a newsletter in which he called US support for Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran “complicity” in what could become a ground war.

On WarRoom, Carlson expressed doubt about U.S. military readiness and warned of overreach.

“The second you get enmeshed in a real war—not a fake, ‘let’s go bomb the villagers’—you’re in trouble,” he said. “We don’t even have a good track record [on that]. Why are the Houthis still there?”

He concluded, “How prepared is the U.S. military for a real conflict? The answer is totally unprepared. Scary unprepared. I don’t think people understand that.”

Watch above via Bannon’s WarRoom.

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