File this one under Politics Make Strange Bedfellows. Saturday’s edition of The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW relied on Tucker Carlson to make the case that the Iran war spells the "end" of President Trump, and that the MAGA coalition is “over.” Co-host Elise Jordan opened by noting that with President Trump and his party in control of Washington, one would think they’d be racking up political victories. Instead, she said, Trump spent the week going after his GOP allies. Jordan quoted The Atlantic describing Trump as “flailing.” She recounted Trump derailing a bipartisan housing bill event and a shouting match with Sen. Bill Cassidy. A source called the closed-door meeting a “venting session” for Trump. Jordan continued: “And it’s not just congressional Republicans that Trump has managed to alienate. Let’s hear from his ally-turned-frenemy on why he’s writing Trump and MAGA’s obituaries.” A clip rolled of Sky News host Yalda Hakim asking Carlson: “Do you think this war is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump?” Tucker Carlson: "Of course it's the end. Of course." When Hakim asked where that leaves the future of the MAGA movement, Carlson, unleashing his trademark insane laugh, replied:  "The future of the MAGA? Well, that's over. There's no future of the MAGA movement, obviously. We're done." MS NOW Uses Cackling Carlson To Predict 'End' Of Trump, MAGA pic.twitter.com/R9BiD7RLYE — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) June 28, 2026 Jordan called it an interesting moment where Trump should be at the height of his powers but it seems like the sunset.  Co-host Catherine Rampell pushed back on Jordan's “height of his powers” line, calling Trump a lame duck: "he's going to potentially spend the next couple of years dealing with a flood of subpoenas, potentially another impeachment." That's the dream according to MS NOW.  Rampell claimed that Republican infighting, rather than reflecting concern over issues like the Iran war or inflation, is entirely opportunistic, as figures like Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance position themselves to inherit the Trump movement. She depicted Rubio as positioning himself as "the competent one," while Vance is offering himself as the more anti-immigrant, isolationist alternative. Rampell added that Tucker Carlson has a bigger following in that lane. The spectacle spoke volumes. MS NOW and its predecessor MSNBC, which have spent years demonizing Carlson, suddenly treated his words as authoritative proof that Trump and MAGA are collapsing. The panel highlighted GOP tensions while glossing over policy realities and their own side’s divisions.  As our Brent Baker has noted, Ayman Mohyeldin closed the show by announcing it was The Weekend: Primetime's final episode. But the sendoff revealed more about MS NOW’s selective sourcing than any real conservative crack-up. We'll miss The Weekend: Primetime. As we've often noted, as here, it was a gold mine for "prime" examples of MS NOW's flaming-liberal bias. Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 6/27/26 6:01 pm EDT ELISE JORDAN: Good evening and welcome to The Weekend Prime Time. With President Trump and his party in control of Washington, you would think they'd be racking up political victories.  But instead, Trump spent this week going after his GOP allies. As Jonathan Lemire and Russell Berman described Trump's day of grievances in The Atlantic, quote, For President Trump, things aren't going great.  He normally thrives in chaos, reveling in the unpredictability to keep his opponents off balance. But right now he's just flailing. This comes as Trump derailed his own party when he abruptly canceled an event to sign the bipartisan housing bill that was meant to boost supply and lower costs.  His reason to tell Senate Republicans to pass the Save America Act first, which critics have warned will enact strict election laws ahead of the midterms.  And hours later, Trump engaged in a shouting match with Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who he had already successfully primaried over the war in Iran during a closed-door GOP Senate lunch.  It was convened to calm intra-party tensions. A source familiar with the spat told MSNOW the gathering was a, quote, venting session for Trump.  And it's not just congressional Republicans that Trump has managed to alienate. Let's hear from his ally-turned-frenemy on why he's writing Trump and MAGA's obituaries. SKY NEWS HOST YALDA HAKIM: Do you think this war is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump?  TUCKER CARLSON: Of course it's the end. Of course.  HOST: I wonder, Tucker, where this leaves the future of the MAGA movement.  CARLSON [insane laughter]: The future of the MAGA? Well, that's over. There's no future of the MAGA movement, obviously. We're done.  JORDAN: It's an interesting moment where Trump should be at the height of his powers, but it does seem like the sunset as the question of what's next looms large within Republicans, who just don't have the authentic Trump factor to necessarily replace him.  So what's it going to be? And then you have the Democrats having their own Tea Party circa 2010 fight going on, too, at the same time.  And you see how that battle is unknown, too.  CATHERINE RAMPELL: Yeah, I don't know that I would agree with the characterization that Trump should be at the height of his powers.  He's a lame duck, right? I mean, he is potentially about to face a Democratic House, maybe even a Democratic Senate.  He can't run again, despite his best ambitions. And he's going to potentially spend the next couple of years dealing with a flood of subpoenas, potentially another impeachment.  And I think what you're seeing here in this fracturing of the Republican Party is not so much that, you know, they've, they're offended by the war or they're upset about fiscal indiscipline or whatever, or the the, you know, high gas prices, stuff like that.  I think it's just opportunistic, and they are trying to figure out how to inherit the Trump movement.  And you have, like, Marco Rubio, who's gonna cast himself as the one competent one, the one who gets memed as taking over every job.  And then you have J.D. Vance, who's gonna try to position himself as the anti-immigrant, you know, even further isolationist one.  And Tucker Carlson clearly has a bigger following in that lane.