{"id":7998699,"date":"2026-04-12T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=7998699"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:47:36","slug":"ben-shapiro-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-trump-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/politics\/ben-shapiro-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-trump-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Says It&#8217;s &#8216;Insane&#8217; to Suggest Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly Pushback Will Undermine Trump&#8217;s Influence | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Ben Shapiro believes the idea that conservative commentators like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly could undermine support for Donald Trump is &#8220;insane,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6392978603112\">he told<\/a> &#8220;The Sunday Briefing&#8221; co-anchor Jacqui Heinrich Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Those people, though, do have considerable social followings. 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXCexACkh2p\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by The Sunday Briefing (@sundaybrieffnc)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a major issue for the Republican base,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cI think the president is exactly right to call this out for what it is, which is people who have fringe audiences \u2014 large numbers, but fringe audiences in terms of the broader overall Republican audiences. Multiple polls have shown over the course of the&nbsp; last month and a half that the president has 80-90% support inside the Republican party for his actions in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shapiro also insisted that a recent survey from J.L. Partners that shows only 6% of Republicans support the pair backs up his claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think the idea that these folks are going to be able to undermine broad scale support for a war that will reach its terminus sometime in the next couple of months, I think that\u2019s insane,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think the idea that these folks are going to be able to undermine broad scale support for a war that will reach its terminus sometime in the next couple of months, I think that\u2019s insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shapiro: People need to touch grass. Go talk to the people that you go to church with, and what you&#39;ll find the out is most of those people agree with the president <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ezEZpIwTcy\">pic.twitter.com\/ezEZpIwTcy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/2043354159479681190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsehwhere in the interview, Shapiro insisted that people who claim Trump has changed his narrative on Iran need to &#8220;touch grass.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I mean, obviously, I think that the algorithmic disconnect is quite real. You see it particularly on X, but you also see it on TikTok and other social media. People need to touch grass. Go talk to the people you go to church with and what you will find out is that most of those people agree with the President of the United States, the vast majority of conservatives have agreed for 50 years that the Iranian regime is a threat to the United States, to its allies, to the region and to the world,&#8221; Shaprio said. &#8220;And this President is making the bravest foreign policy move of my lifetime and actually keeping a promise that he may back in 1980, that he would take on the Iranian regime if ever he got the power.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/culture-lifestyle\/culture\/tucker-carlson-reacts-trump-praise-allah-easter-iran-warning\/\">Carlson recently described<\/a> Trump&#8217;s writing &#8220;Praise be to Allah&#8221; in his broadly threatening Truth Social messages as &#8220;evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A lot of his positions are the right positions, but you cannot support that,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is evil. That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth, which is the definition of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/journalism\/megyn-kelly-trump-worried-iran-war\/\">In March Kelly said<\/a> she worries Trump will destroy what the Republican party has built in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe seem to have a new goal in ending this war, which is, we need to open the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Kelly said at the time. \u201cYou mean the strait that was open before we began the bombing campaign? It was open. There was no problem with the Strait of Hormuz. It was fine. 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