Conservative author Ann Coulter, one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters, warned the President that if he doesn’t build a border wall his legacy will be that of a “joke presidency.”
Coulter, who was mocked after predicting Trump would win the White House in 2016 based predominantly on his populist appeal and his promise to halt illegal immigration, appeared on the Daily Caller Podcast to discuss the president’s apparent evolution from demanding a government shutdown to kicking the can down the road.
She warned the President that if he loses this battle, he loses the presidency in 2020.
“They’re about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again,” Coulter said analyzing the GOP’s inability to extract border wall funding from the Democrats.
Ann Coulter criticizes Trump’s legacy sans border wall pic.twitter.com/eLPCDLhpxS
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 19, 2018
“Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he’ll have no legacy whatsoever,” Coulter added.
What happened was, we voted for a guy who promised to build a wall — and you won’t believe what happened next! https://t.co/ZvsiHHI3ef
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 18, 2018
Not only will Trump lose the wall, he’ll lose her vote
Coulter, the best-selling author of numerous books, including “In Trump We Trust,” warned the President that if he fails to secure the border with his promised wall, she would refuse to vote for him.
When asked if she would continue supporting him going forward, Coulter unleashed and predicted the only lasting legacy of Trump’s presidency will be to have made money for his kids.
“No (I won’t vote for Trump). Nor will, I think, most of his supporters,” she said. “Why would you? To make sure, I don’t know, Ivanka and Jared can make money? That seems to be the main point of the presidency at this point.”
.@AnnCoulter: “Either Trump never intended to build a wall and was scamming voters from the beginning or he hasn’t the first idea in how to get it done and no interest in finding out” https://t.co/uhkRJUjDyz
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) December 19, 2018
Coulter reflects a growing frustration among Trump supporters, many of whom feel that stopping illegal immigration and enforcing the rule of law is of paramount importance.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in an interview with conservative Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche, insisted the President has failed to keep his campaign promises, citing the border wall as one example.
Carlson, like Coulter, has warned that Democrats have opposed the wall for their own personal gain, with the former stating it will “stop the flow of cheap labor and new voters.”
Trump insists he’ll still build the wall using the military
President Trump still believes the border wall will ultimately be a victory for his administration.
“One way or the other, we will win on the Wall!” he declared.
The President is seeking to use the military to build the wall at the southern border, insisting that his renegotiation of the NAFTA deal will actually result in Mexico paying for it.
Mexico is paying (indirectly) for the Wall through the new USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA! Far more money coming to the U.S. Because of the tremendous dangers at the Border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the United States Military will build the Wall!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2018
The President, sensing no cooperation from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, almost immediately signaled he would use the military to build the border wall.
“If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall,” he said. “They know how important it is.”
Funding has been a major source of disagreement between the President and congressional Democrats. Trump has demanded $5 billion while the resistance party has only been willing to cede $1.3 billion.
Somehow, the United States managed to pledge nearly $11 billion in aid to Central America and Mexico in the midst of the funding fight.
Coulter is right – Building the wall is a fight President Trump simply cannot lose if he hopes to win re-election in 2020. Let’s hope he’s right that it will get done “one way or the other.”
Anne Colter is the “joke” here. Trump cannot single handedly put through a bill to build the wall. She should be jumping on those who are opposing Trump when it comes to the wall. THEY are the ones who has kept it from happening. I am not a Trump “follower”, but fair is fair and the man cannot do it singlehandedly so get off his back Anne.
Trump has been warned, and warned, and warned since inauguration day that he needed to stop tweeting, and commenting publicly on EVERYTHING…he has been advised UNOLD numbers of times to LISTEN and HEED what his advisors are telling him. He has disregarded all of those warning and refused to listen to the advise of the people he hired to guide him. He has EFFECTIVELY guaranteed that he will be a one term President His churlish, bullying, misogynistic, crude, callous, narcissistic attitude has alienated the independents responsible for putting him in office, done the same to MORE women, and has managed to even run off a large number of his Conservative base. He is simply not CAPABLE of controlling himself, has shown no qualities of statesmanship, alienated most of the free world, and sullied the Office of the President. It is said that TACT is the ability to tell a man to go straight to hell, and make him be GLAD to be on his way. The President has NO TACT. I love the things he is trying to do. His personality, pompousness, and narcissism will be his downfall. I wish that were not so, but if every Republican voted for him in 2020 there are not nearly enough of us to win. Liberals, minorities, llegals, those who depend on the taxpayers for their very existence, and those scamming the system far outnumber us. So Mr. President, when you get your butt kicked in the next election and you are scratching your head trying to figure out WHY…..simply look into the mirror.
Ann, you’re being a bit harsh. Look at all the other accomplishments due to Trumps tenacity. Besides your book “Adios America” will fulfill its promise! You’ll make big bucks if you quickly move to Maine.
Ann Coulter is right. He caves to the Democrats, and doesn’t finish the wall, he’ll be a one term President, maybe not even a full term one at that. Once he disillusions enough people that voted for him, they won’t care if the Democrats impeach him and throw him out of office. Because right now it looks like it is a race. Trying to uncover everything the Democrats and Hillary did in the 2016 elections and Mueller “investigation” and Democrat’s soon to be expanded investigations into Trump and his family.
I am so disappointed that we lost the house to the Dems., that I can hardly stand it. I can’t believe that ANYBODY would vote the Dems back into control of anything with the way the left thinks. They are anti every good thing that this country used to stand for. Their thinking is SICK!!! With all of the corrupt things that the Dems have done, like the Hillary crimes with all her cronies, the Obama administration and all his communist buddies, and the list goes on, that absolutely NOTHING has happened to any of them, and probably never will. It is sickening!!! Trump is our last hope to get this country back on track and the Dems fight him all the way, even when they know that what Trump is trying to do is the best for the people of this country. The Republicans are at fault too. If they had backed President Trump right from the start, just imagine what he could have accomplished. He has already done more than any other president in history, despite both sides not supporting him. There is a lot more the Republicans could have done and could still do to help him, but they won’t. I cannot even watch Fox news anymore because of the way the left behaves. It makes me sick to listen to them. Adam Schiff is a sick person with the crap he says. Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, Cris Hahn, Swallwel, Flake, and the rest of them are nothing but American hating, communist brain dead idiots who should never even be in charge of anything to do with running this country. They don’t care about the American people. They care about keeping the gravy train running just the way it is so they can stay in power. They couldn’t care less about the illegals either. They want open borders not to help the illegals, but to insure VOTES for their future. So Sad!!! I am glad I’m a senior who knows my days are numbered and that it won’t be but a couple more years to watch my beautiful country fall under socialist control and fall from grace just like EVERY other country that has gone this way. I worry for my grown children, my grandchildren and for my great grandchildren and their future in this country. The ugliness from the left has already infiltrated our schools and taken all thats good away, and they are now indoctrinating our children with all of the sick thinking that is ruining our country. No pledge of Allegiance to our flag, no mention of Christmas, because of the word “Christ “, no respect for those who died for our country, no patriotism, no respect for law enforcement, and this list goes on too. It used to be that the majority rules when kids voted on something. Not any more!!! Now ONE child who doesn’t want to agree with the rest of the class gets HIS or HER way and the rest of the class suffers!!! That is the LEFT Democratic way in our time now!!! Teachers are muzzled if they try to do right, and fired for ridiculous reasons. All of these things are being caused by the people of the LEFT, and it has gotten so POLITICALLY CORRECT, that it is now out of control. To address the subject of this post, I am so disappointed in President Trump caving to the Dems. and signing a bill without getting any funding for his wall. I wish he would have stood his ground and did whatever it took. The people who are behind him would understand and stand behind him. By caving in to the Left, he has given them exactly what they wanted and now he will never be able to get anything done.
If Trump does not build the wall, he will be a one term president and the last Republican one.
GoFundMe/the trump wall
Give what you can!
Trump delivered…to the dimocrats…on the (no) wall and the unconstitutional bump-stock ban.
11 bill. There you go! Have them build it.
Coulter, as usual, is right.
Preznit Arty McDealio is DONE…OVER…FINITO.
Got fooled again.
If The Donald loses enough of The Seldom & Never Voters…that put him in Office, he or his replacement will lose 2020, and some filthy Proto-Commie Demonrat, worse than Cokehead Poofter Obama The Chimp Thumbed, will then be smeared on The White House and this scum/pirate/vampire/beast afflicted nation.
Civil War 2.0…coming right up.
Well, we all know Trump meant what he said. He has no control over what the House does, and the arrogance of Schumer and the Democrats. Maybe Trump should start a Donation Campaign from the public. I know I would donate. Democrats have lost all “Common Sense”, or maybe never had it from the start. It’s all for votes, for the left, and nothing more. They don’t give a, you-know-what, about the illegals. It’s Shameful. Having border security and control, is the only way we can keep this country safe. Illegal immigrant households receive an average of $5,692 in federal welfare benefits every year, far more than the average “native” American household, at $4,431, according to a new report on the cost of immigration released Monday. The Center for Immigration Studies, in an analysis of federal cost figures, found that all immigrant-headed households — legal and illegal — receive an average of $6,241 in welfare, 41 percent more than native households. As with Americans receiving benefits such as food stamps and cash, much of the welfare to immigrants supplements their low wage jobs. Unbelievable!
Now let us not attack the man that has done more for his country in two years than Obama did in 8. He has honored about 90% of his campaign promises and I think he is going to make every effort to make good on 100% of them. Let us face it. The Democrats want people to be divided. I can promise you that under Democrat or Liberal leadership the country would be finished. He is the only man holding the country together. We need to all pitch in and get creative. If we want a wall then perhaps we should fund it ourselves. Show the Democrats what we are really made of instead of wining and complaining. If the best ball player strikes out once and a while.
I just want to say God Bless you President Trump. Thank you for being such a great man and doing so much for freedom and America. Even if you do not get money to build that wall, know that we still support and love everything you are doing. You can call on this old Canadian to help and support you any time and I will be there for you! May God Bless!
I agree Thomas, with everything you said. I do believe if this country took up a collection, we conservatives would donate enough to “build this wall”.
Trump is in hiding…………
Stonewall…you’re an idiot…and Coulter…Trump always fights for America and you only have one vote…so quit acting like you will decide the future of this country….