Tucker Carlson helped get Donald Trump elected president in 2016, but now he’s warning Christians they should abandon support for the president as he commits immoral crimes against humanity.
“If there’s one theme that spans all 66 books in the Christian Bible, it’s that you are not God and you cannot assume his powers because you don’t have them,” Carlson said in his April 6 podcast. “You may convince yourself you have them, you may want them, you may have been promised them, but in the end, they’re not yours and you’ll never have them. And you can only destroy yourself and the people around you by pretending that you do. That is the consistent message that spans from Genesis to Revelation.”
Trump, Carlson now believes, shows no regard for God or God’s moral mandates.
That is especially true in the president’s chosen war with Iran and repeated threats of death and destruction, Carlson said.
“We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran. It’s totally unacceptable.”
“We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran. It’s totally unacceptable. None of the phony laws of some international body, but under moral law, God’s law, killing non-combatants, people who did nothing wrong, who didn’t choose this war, who were just people created by God. That is immoral. That will never be moral. That can never be justified. That is always wrong.
“It can be expedient. ‘We need to do this.’ It doesn’t mean it’s right. It’s the most wrong thing. And we should always remember that what we do will be done to us. Live by the destruction of civilian infrastructure, live by the killing of children, the bombing of elementary schools and colleges. And you will die and your children will die by those same things. That’s just a fact. That’s never not been true. We don’t want it to be true. It’s the last thing we want to be true, but it is nonetheless true.”
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on January 20. (Photo by MORRY GASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
No hand on Bible
Christians who continue to support Trump should have known something was amiss on Inauguration Day in 2025, when Trump didn’t place his hand on the Bible while taking the oath of office, Carlson said.
“I was about 15 feet away and saw it, but he did not put his hand on the Bible. And that should have been maybe a clue that we need to pause and think about, What is this? Why wouldn’t you put your hand on the Bible? If you don’t believe in the Bible, you think it’s just a book, there’s no cost to you to putting your hand on it, just kind of following the protocol, going along with the tradition, all presidents do it. Why aren’t you doing it? And you’re not doing it intentionally. You’re choosing not to put your hand on the Bible when you take that oath.
“That suggests not that you don’t believe it’s real, because if you didn’t believe it was real, why would you care? You’d put on the costume and take it off. It doesn’t matter. That suggests you know it is real and you’re rejecting it intentionally. You know what you’re doing and you’re doing it anyway, but nobody asked questions about that either. It seemed kind of inappropriate given the celebration then in progress to ask, ‘Why wouldn’t you put your hand on the Bible when you take the oath of office to lead our nation?’ But pretty much nobody did. I didn’t. I’ll admit that. I saw it and didn’t say one word. Bothered me ever since.
“But right around January 4, it became clear that maybe he didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what’s inside that book and what’s inside that book are limits on human behavior.”
Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images via Getty Images)
Venezuela
January 4 is the day Trump announced the capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
The problem is not that Trump took out a bad person, but that he did so for the wrong reasons, Carlson said.
“The problem was why we did it and why the president told us he did it. And that was for the oil. So in the days before that operation in early January, the president tweeted out, sent out on his truth social account, and also said in public, we’re doing this because we want the oil, because that oil belongs to the United States. He never explained how exactly the United States would own the natural resources of a foreign country.”
Then Trump held an on-camera meeting with the heads of American oil companies and “talked through how we’re going to split up the national resources of Venezuela and why this is great for America,” Carlson continued. “So why should Christians have paused at exactly that moment and asked, ‘Can I still support this? Is this what I voted for? Is this what I want? Is this acceptable?’
“And the reason is really simple, because Trump at that moment revealed that the motive was taking something that we wanted. And that’s not acceptable for Christians. In fact, that’s not acceptable for Americans or any civilized people because taking other people’s stuff by force cannot be allowed. In fact, preventing that is the basis of our legal code. If there’s one thing that every person knows that is in a civilized country, you can’t steal without penalty. It’s not allowed.”
Theft is not allowed by law and not allow by God’s law, Carlson reiterated.
‘Can’t say you didn’t know’
And for any American Christian who continues to support Trump and claims they didn’t know he violates God’s law, Carlson has no patience.
“You can’t say you didn’t know. Your president just told you on television, we took out their president because we want his oil. And at that point, you’re an accessory to the crime, whether you want to be or not. And it’s at that point that a lot of people should have spoken up and said, ‘I’m out. Not that I hate Trump or don’t like his entire program. Lots of things about it I love. I’m grateful. I’ll maybe vote for him again, but I can’t support theft because it’s immoral.’ But they didn’t.”
And now, Trump went a step further with an Easter Sunday post on Truth Social that has been labeled “profane” and “disrespectful” and saying out loud you intend to commit war crimes.
Trump’s Easter statement “shattered” the peace, Carlson said.
“It is maybe the most real thing this president has ever done and also the most revealing.”
“It is maybe the most real thing this president has ever done and also the most revealing. On every level, it is vile on every level. It begins with a promise to use the U.S. military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country, whose welfare, by the way, was one of the reasons we supposedly went into this war in the first place. They’re being killed by their government. We have to rescue them. And now here’s our president, not even a month and a half into the conflict, which we are not winning by the way, because the Strait of Hormuz is not open.”
What Trump boldly threatened was mass killing of innocent civilians, Carlson said.
“Iran is a modern country. What happens when it loses power? Well, people die. Babies connected to incubators die. People in hospitals die. And those are the first level effects. And then people begin to starve. And then you have refugee crises, people leave the cities looking for food, and then yes, they move into other countries. In the region, in Europe, in the United States, you cause chaos and death, mass suffering and death when you do that.”
Not only did Trump threaten such action, he already has ordered it, Carlson continued. “We have done that. We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran. It’s totally unacceptable.”
‘No sane person’
Carlson asserted “no sane person” thinks Trump’s threats are going to work to motivate Iran. But Trump presses on, he said, “for the sake of killing, for the sake of exercising the most obvious form of power, which is extinguishing life. That’s why we’re doing it. The thrill is in the killing. The power is in the killing. The exertion of force is the point.”
“The thrill is in the killing. The power is in the killing. The exertion of force is the point.”
Carlson said he believes Trump intends to drop nuclear bombs on Iran, which would create massive and far-ranging carnage.
Now is the time for those who work in the White House and the military to say no to the president, Carlson insisted. “It’s time to say, ‘No, absolutely not,” and say it directly to the president.”
If the president gives an order to murder more civilians in Iran and create mass casualties, “those people who are in direct contact with the president need to say, ‘No, I’ll resign. I’ll do whatever I can do legally to stop this because this is insane. And if given the order, I’m not carrying it out.’”
Trump’s messianic complex — aided by American evangelicals — motivates him to mock other people’s religion as he did in the Easter Sunday post, Carlson said. “No decent person mocks other people’s religions. You may have a problem with the theology, presumably you do if it’s not your religion, and you can explain what that is. But to mock other people’s faith is to mock the idea of faith itself. And we should never mock that because at its core is the acknowledgement that we are not in charge of the universe.
“We did not build it. We won’t be here at the end of it. We can destroy life. We cannot create it because we are not God. The message of all faith at the biggest picture level is the message in our Bible, which is you are not God and only if you think you are do you talk this way.”
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