Donald Trump, president of the United States, famously spends up to eight hours of his day watching TV. While he occasionally tunes in to MSNBC’s Morning Joe or CNN’s Don Lemon to work himself into an impotent rage, his favorite shows unsurprisingly come from Fox News, including Fox & Friends and the offerings of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. There, the leader of the free world and likely sufferer of narcissistic personality disorder can get the I.V. drip of an ego boost he craves, from people who basically think he was chosen by god to serve as president. But the television hosts don’t merely serve to make Trump feel better about his life—oftentimes, alarmingly, they also dictate White House policy. Hannity, for instance, has long been known to advise the president on major issues like immigration, and now it seems that Tucker Carlson is taking the lead on Iran.

BuzzFeed News reports that while Trump’s most reliable acolytes, such as the Fox & Friends gang, have cheered his aggression toward the country, including the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, others have been slightly more circumspect. Hannity, for his part, said he didn’t want “boots on the ground,” suggesting that such an escalation would be the fault of “Washington swamp creatures.” Longtime Trump loyalist Geraldo Rivera also expressed concern about the potential fallout from the strike on Soleimani, before having his Tuesday night Hannity appearance canceled. But no one has been more vocal against the entire gambit than Tucker Carlson, and apparently Trump has been listening: