“The last year has not made America great again,” the former Fox News host said Wednesday on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” “The last year has diminished American power at a rate some of us thought was unimaginable. We couldn’t have foreseen, less than a year and a half ago ... the damage that this administration, led by that president, for whom we campaigned and liked personally, could do to this country.”

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Carlson spring-boarded on Trump’s boast that he had “99%” approval in Israel to lash out at the war the president initiated in Iran after pledging not to get entangled in overseas conflicts.

“The president of the United States bragging about his popularity in a foreign country,” he said, repeating Trump’s 99% boast. “Unmentioned is the fact that he’s 35% in the United States. Thirty-five percent support from Americans, the people he pledged to represent, to fight for, whose side he promised to take in every conflict, foreign and domestic. And yet, there he is, bragging about how popular he is in a foreign country, the same country that got us into the war that is causing, to some extent, his unpopularity in this country.”

“Now you could say, ‘Well that’s just Trump, searching for affirmation wherever he can. Unpopular at home, he retreats into the fantasy of his popularity in another country,’” Carlson continued. “Well, yes, true. But it’s not a one-time exhibition of this. That president has spent the last year looking outward toward the approval of other nations. That president has spent the last year fighting for people who are not his voters, and in many cases not even Americans, and allowing his own country to languish.”

A new Reuters poll indicated that a huge majority of Americans is not pleased with Trump’s job performance.