Trump Shares Post Cheering Tucker Carlson’s Exit From Republican Party

Trump amplifies a commentary and a New York Post editorial branding the former Fox News host a case of career suicide after Carlson breaks with the party over Israel and Iran.

First Published: July 27, 2026, 8:15 AM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump shared a broadside against Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who broke with the Republican Party, endorsing commentary that called his fall a case of career suicide.

Trump amplified a post by radio host Wayne Allyn Root alongside a New York Post editorial that urged Republicans to celebrate Carlson’s departure. The shared material tied Carlson’s exit to his hostility toward Israel and his criticism of Trump over the Iran war.

Here is the full post on truthsocial: “Sir Wayne Allyn Root – TV & Radio Host This man caught a case of “Jew Derangement Syndrome.” It led him down a dark destructive path. A conservative patriot hero who destroyed his life and committed career suicide. Never seen this before. Tragic. Republicans should cheer the exit of sad Tucker Carlson From nypost.com” on July 27, 2026 at 12:04 PM ET.

This is one of many messages released by Trump today. In the last 30 days, 21 of 458 Trump posts were on the topic “Reposts & External Links,” according to Zenger analysis.

Carlson has decided to exit the Republican Party, and the editorial urged members not to mourn the loss, according to nypost. The piece described the podcaster as pursuing an agenda it called pro-Vladimir Putin and anti-Israel, and it questioned his praise for Qatar. Trump amplified those themes by mentioning the source (see nypost).

The attached image showed a screenshot of Root’s post next to a photo of Carlson in a dark suit, captioned with the editorial’s headline. The screenshot recorded a timestamp of 9:49 AM on June 26, 2026, and 1,847 views. The post text repeated a phrase widely condemned as antisemitic.

The editorial documented what it called Carlson’s downward spiral. He traveled to Moscow in 2024 to interview Putin and sat through the leader’s historical monologue, according to nypost. He later claimed the CIA read his texts with Iran to frame him as a foreign agent, and he mused about whether Trump could be the Antichrist, according to nypost.

President Donald J. Trump shared a screenshot of a social media post by Wayne Allyn Root featuring a photo of Tucker Carlson at Washington D.C.

The split carries stakes for the conservative media landscape and for the coalition Trump built. Carlson commands one of the largest independent audiences on the right, and his break signals a fracture over foreign policy, particularly support for Israel and the strike on Iran. Trump benefits by rallying loyalists, while Carlson risks isolation from the party apparatus he once shaped from Fox’s prime-time perch.

The editorial noted that Carlson claimed Vice President JD Vance was stuck serving under Trump, a characterization the piece rejected. Vance had spent months trying to coax Carlson back, according to nypost.

Rifts between Trump and once-friendly media figures have surfaced before. Carlson left Fox News in April 2023 after the network settled a defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, and he rebuilt his following through an independent show. This latest break marks his formal departure from the party rather than a single network.

Carlson has not announced any new political affiliation, and no date has been set for a public response to the editorial or the post. The next move rests with Carlson and with the party figures who choose whether to answer him.

Conservative pundits breaking with their patrons is a familiar chapter in American media, as happened before. Glenn Beck departed Fox News in 2011 after his ratings and advertiser support eroded, launching his own venture. Pat Buchanan, a Nixon and Reagan aide turned commentator, bolted the Republican Party in 1999 to run on the Reform ticket and drew less than one percent in the 2000 election. Each man kept an audience but lost the institutional footing that first made him powerful.