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Tucker Carlson: “We are not going to open the straits with the United States…”

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Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere

Published April 6, 2026 | Video Starts at 28:35

But it's not just the argument that one guy in cable news is making. It is the logic of escalation in this war. Because in some sense Mark Levin is right. We are not going to open the straits with the United States Marine Corps, the 82nd Airborne, or the Tier 1 operators. that everyone on cable knows news seems to know so much about. The Tier one operators who, Tier one, just guys like some of the best guys actually in America could be killed in this. (28:35–28:42)

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Asserts that the U.S. military will not open the straits using its forces.

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“The President announced the capture, the arrest of the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 01:31-01:37
“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…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 02:05-02:16
“Our President Donald Trump, held a widely publicized on camera meeting with the heads of American oil companies and talked through how we're…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 02:59-03:10
“On Inauguration Day, the president did not take his oath of office with his hand on the Bible.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 06:32-06:38
“We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 13:12-13:17
“The nonprofit structure [in the U.S.] was devised in 1913, the same year as the income tax.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:11:46-1:11:49
“The LDS Church is invested in weapon manufacturing.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:25:54-1:25:59
“Samaritan's Purse [is] at two and a half billion dollars, clearly one of the biggest.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:27:33-1:32:01
“In the days after that operation, the successful removal of the President of the country and the installation of his Vice president, Delsey…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 02:48-02:57
“It begins with a promise to use the US Military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say to…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 11:24-11:40
“That's just. That is so corrupt.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 14:07-1:43:23
“The point, of course, is to get the Iranians to open the Strait of Hormuz.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 15:24-15:29
“We are on a path to plunge the world into global depression and famine.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 20:02-20:07
“30% of the world's fertilizer, 20% of its energy. Yeah, that's a global depression and famine.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 20:13-20:19
“A billion and a half sub Saharan Africans without enough fertilizer. Well, a lot of them will be living in the United States.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 20:21-20:27
“It was open on February 27 and had been for, you know, since there were pirates roaming the strait.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 20:41-20:49
“Modern nuclear weapons have never been used.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 21:21-21:23
“The US isn't the only country in the world with nuclear weapons.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 21:58-22:02
“We haven't used nuclear weapons in 80 years.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 22:05-22:08
“Mark Levin's counsel to our sitting President, Donald Trump...is actually an act of peace.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 26:47-27:08
“Mark Levin's show...has been a place where the future is revealed in its broadest outline.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 27:20-27:20
“We're moving toward the use of weapons of indiscriminate mass destruction, possibly nuclear weapons.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 27:35-27:43
“If you work in the White House, we're in the US military now, it's time to say no, absolutely not.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 29:10-29:15
“In case you're thinking about using some weapon of mass destruction against the population of Iran.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 29:16-29:22
“We killed their religious leader for their benefit.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 29:24-29:27
“There's been only one sustained effort to exterminate a faith, and that's the Christian faith.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 31:41-31:49
“Since we dropped those atom bombs 80 years ago, doesn't mean that we live in a world where everyone else is secular.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 32:53-33:02
“Donald Trump accelerated this war against the civilian population of Iran.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 35:46-35:56
“You cannot compare a president, a secular president of the United States or anybody, any human being, to Jesus.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 37:47-37:55
“Jesus did not say, bomb the bridges and the hospitals and the power plants.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 40:15-40:22
“Anyone preaching the opposite gospel of any Christian denomination is saying something vile and dangerous.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 41:38-41:49
“I ran into Paula White for the first time, heard her name for the first time when I ran into her in person right outside the Oval Office…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 43:32-43:40
“She introduced herself to me and said, I'm the head of the Religious Liberty Commissioner or something.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 43:39-43:43
“I really hope that you will do something to protect the Christians of the Middle east, particularly in the Levant.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 43:53-43:59
“The point is to produce a TV show.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 47:13-47:16
“She's one of the people who Prayed over the president and encourage this war with Iran, a country with over a million Christians in it.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 51:25-51:35
“And of. Of course, she's been used and has allowed herself to be used to justify this war and violence in the name of Jesus.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 51:41-51:50
“I believe we had a Protestant reformation to get away from this idea.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:01:34-1:01:36
“That the leader is infallible and the leader speaks always and everywhere for God himself.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:01:38-1:01:41
“A lot of American Christianity is not the faith... but is the structure that corrupts by its nature.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:05:20-1:05:30
“It's like almost impossible to get out of this without being corrupted. If you're leading a church with a structure like that.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:05:31-1:05:37
“Isn't the point of every institution over time to protect and enlarge the institution itself?”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:06:11-1:06:15
“The tax exemption, they have to behave.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:17:36-1:17:38
“That's actually the state constraining church.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:17:41-1:17:45
“Some of these churches have become very rich.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:18:44-1:18:47
“They have the largest farm, largest ranch in Florida.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:19:21-1:19:25
“The Episcopal Church built the prettiest buildings probably in the whole country.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:23:04-1:23:08
“The government under Biden, you know, very liberal, anti-Mormon, you would think government starts pushing, commanding the population to…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:24:55-1:25:04
“The Mormon hierarchy respond to [the government's vaccine mandate] by encouraging their church congregation to get the vaccine.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:25:03-1:25:04
“The LDS Church profits from war and from COVID.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:25:54-1:25:59
“How can a charity have $2.5 billion in assets?”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:29:11-1:29:16
“A lot of land trusts exist for their own benefit. And then they gate the land and you can't use it.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:31:23-1:31:28
“They own all the land in a lot of places.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:31:42-1:31:45
“Franklin Graham called me an anti-Semite.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:35:52-1:35:58
“Franklin Graham is a sober, serious person in a lot of ways.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:36:13-1:36:16
“They own in private aircraft... Around 130 million.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:36:37-1:48:37
“Ah, this is so corrupt. I can't believe this is real.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:39:25-1:39:28
“Every rich person in the World thinks that way.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:41:43-1:41:46
“That's the opposite of a conspiracy theory. That's like the thing people want most.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:43:05-1:43:09
“If you can find a way to get your non profit to pay for it and a way to morally justify it to yourself.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:43:09-1:43:14
“While I'm helping wounded warriors keep their marriages together.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:43:15-1:43:19
“Two and a half billion dollars where you're not spent if you know I mean, just do the math. That should be billions a year spent on the…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:49:00-1:49:09
“The most effective Christian mission I've ever seen, I think that exists in the country is not even explicitly Christian, but it is…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:49:40-1:49:55
“They take people who are literally killing themselves and they change them completely. Not all of them, but they have a better success rate…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:49:55-1:50:06
“You see these preachers endorsing violence and my understanding of the gospel, it's like Jesus does not command anyone to go kill anybody…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:53:28-1:53:37
“You find this thing called Christian Zionism. And I still don't understand it. It's not Christianity.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:53:58-1:54:05
“Paul, the Jewish Pharisee, couldn't make it clearer. It's through Jesus. It's an exclusive claim. It's that or nothing.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:58:17-1:58:24
“People just arrive out of nowhere 150 or 200 years ago, and they're like, well, actually there's one group that doesn't need Jesus.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 1:58:35-1:58:40
“The claim that the Bible tells you you have to support Bibi is so deranged that it's a threat to our faith.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 2:04:28-2:04:34
“I think the President of the United States may not fully understand that theology or that argument, but clearly sees this war in Iran as a…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 2:08:34-2:08:48
“It seems obvious that if you're calling for violence against innocence, what you're saying has no connection to what Jesus said at all.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 2:13:44-2:13:52
“I campaigned for Trump.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 2:13:58-2:14:00
“Too cynical and approached this as theater, which it may have been intended to be.”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 2:15:31-2:15:37
“Get whatever money hungry dispensationalists or, you know, fallen screwed up people who don't have real congregations and get them to sort…”
Tucker on Trump's Desecration of Easter and a Warning to Christians Everywhere | Uploaded April 6, 2026 | 2:15:36-2:15:53
“These are instruments of spiritual war, these people.”
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