The stars of the conservative media movement have been duking it out
– in extremely personal terms
– over Donald Trump’s decision to enter the United States into a conflict with Iran.

While it can be hard to cleanly group the warring factions,
much of the fighting has centered on disagreements about whether the US is too deferential to Israeli interests.

Those arguing that position most prominently include former Fox News hosts Tucker #Carlson and Megyn #Kelly,

while conservative media personalities like Mark #Levin (a current Fox News host) and Ben #Shapiro have strongly supported both the American intervention in Iran and collaboration with Israel.

“There are the classic neocons,
there is the populist right,
and there are the anti-anti neocons,” said Curt Mills, executive director of the American Conservative magazine.

On Tuesday, Shapiro defended Levin, called Kelly an “unbelievable coward” and accused her of eliding her criticism of President Trump. “You don’t like President Trump? You don’t like what he’s saying? Just say his name, you coward,” Shapiro said. “You unbelievable coward. Tucker and Megyn both – unbelievable cowardice.”

The tension between Carlson and Levin traces back to at least June 2025,
when Carlson accused Levin of
“lobbying for war with Iran” during a private lunch with Trump at the White House.

Levin called Carlson a “maggot”,
and Carlson referred to Levin as a “warmonger”.

He used the same label for another former Fox News colleague,
Sean Hannity.

(This week, Kelly called her former colleague Hannity “a supplicant to Donald Trump”
and said
“he would never say anything other than to puff Donald Trump up”.)
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