On his Tuesday podcast, Tucker Carlson utterly humiliated Sen. Ted Cruz for not knowing much of anything about Iran, the country he wants to bomb into Kingdom Come.
Carlson is not a fan of attacking Iran, and Cruz fell into a simple trap of his own making. It takes five seconds to know the most basic aspects of any country.
CARLSON: How many people live in Iran, by the way?
CARLSON: I don’t know the population.
CARLSON: At all?
CARLSON: No, I don’t know the population.
CARLSON: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?
CRUZ: How many people live in Iran?
CARLSON: 92 million.
CRUZ: Okay.
Yeah, I…
CARLSON: How could you not know that?
CRUZ: I don’t sit around memorizing population tables.
CARLSON: Well, it’s kind of relevant because you’re calling for the overthrow of the government.
CRUZ: Why is it relevant, whether it’s 90 million, or 80 million, or 100 million, why is that relevant?
CARLSON: Well, because if you don’t know anything about the country…
CRUZ: I didn’t say I don’t know anything about the country.
CARLSON: Okay, what’s the ethnic mix of Iran?
CRUZ: They are Persians and predominantly Shia.
CARLSON You don’t know anything about Iran. So actually the country…
CRUZ: Okay, I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran who says…
