Ann Coulter wrote the book ‘In Trump We Trust’ and was an early and vocal supporter of candidate Donald Trump, largely for his stand on immigration. But with the border wall still un-built, and the president now backing former Sen. Jeff Session’s rival in the Alabama GOP Senate race, she laces into him on Twitter as a “complete moron,” “blithering idiot” and a “shallow and broken man” who never intended to build the wall, and is now trying to lose the Senate. Will this verbal fire from a former friendly make Coulter a swamp creature with the Trump base? Which one is violating Reagan’s 11th Commandment?
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43 replies on “Friendly Fire: Ann Coulter Turns Scorn on ‘Complete Blithering Idiot’ Trump”
While I mostly love what Pres Trump has done, I definitely disagreed with how he dealt with AG Sessions. Say what you will about Sessions, but he was one of the President’s earliest and staunchest supporters, jumping on board when he was virtually alone. He deserved some thanks & loyalty in return. That’s not to say he shouldn’t have been dismissed (he was ill-suited for the job, especially when compared to AG Barr), but the public floggings were completely uncalled for. Not only that, but to my understanding, Sessions was actually a decent Senator, and were it not for this unnecessary rift now, could have made a fantastic ally in Congress. Assuming he wins, let’s hope he doesn’t let personal feelings get in the way of his duty to his constituents, a la John McCain & Mitt Romney.
Ann Coulter trashes Trump. George Will trashed Reagan.
Talkers hating doers.
Bill, I couldn’t possibly agree with you more about McMaster and Mattis. Especially Mattis. But then, I may be a bit biased since I’m a Marine! ;~) No, seriously, I find Trump’s skin just a bit … thin … at times. But, hey, come to Georgia one day and lemme introduce you to somebody who has an veritable encyclopedia of shortcomings — ME!
Bill, I think you made some good points about Anne. I have followed her for years and used to enjoy her caustic wit immensely. But, as the years have gone by, it has seemed to me that she has, I dunno, lapses in sanity? She just goes from caustic to ballistic! This whole thing with Trump is one such. She has come down hard on him periodically over the last couple of years and it makes no sense to me. Trump has done EVERYTHING under the Sun — and then some — in order to get that wall built. He has been thwarted by the Left more times than Carter has little liver pills (old saying that you and Scott might get) yet has countered each and every time until he finally prevailed. Myself, I give the guy a standing ovation! To paraphrase Churchill, he never EVER, ever gave up! And yet, Anne condemned him roundly! As for his feud with Jeff, I personally kinda like Jeff. Did he scew up by recusing himself? Quite possibly based on what I’ve read. But, dadgummit, Jeff has worked hard in the Senate for years and had a lot of traction there. If I lived in Alabama, I would be strongly inclined to give him another chance. The Donald ain’t perfect, either!!!
Because of her increasing irrelevance, Coulter will whore for any side to get attention.
My Thoughts Exactly Ma’am!
Coulter is a kneejerk attention seeker, and that is all. Sorry, at this point I can’t take her seriously anymore.
Sessions looks doddering. He needs to retire and we need term limits for Congress.
I just absolutely hate our own side fighting in Public, hold the family squabbles until we’re in private.
Coulter lost all credibility back in 2011 when she got down on her knees first for Chris Christie, then Mittens. She’s irrelevant
Many times I have cringed at what Donald Trump said. I have a similar reaction to these statements by Ann Coulter. However, I believe that immigration is, by far, the most important issue. The Democrats discovered that they were losing the argument with the American people. Rather than accept their loss, they turned, starting in 1965, to supporting massive immigration. They do this because they know that upwards of 80% of them will vote Democrat. No other issue matters if we are overwhelmed by immigrants that reliably vote for Democrats. The Democrats will win on all issues with enough of these new voters. What can Trump do? He can bring up the illegal immigration issue repeatedly and remind people whose jobs these illegals take. He can work to shut down the H1B visa system instead of claiming that he is shutting it down and them almost immediately backtracking.
Bill, I think the reason people react so critically to those that run afoul of PDJT is due to the fact that almost all media and some right media are against him. I see it as a knee jerk reaction to the powerful force stacked against him. It is the last thing we need to help him succeed and sometimes people forget their manners.
Here is the problem
Even Ann Coulter, who broke up from Trump sometime ago understands that if Trump looses, we will get Biden, and I’m more then certain that even she will prefer Trump
I think that there is an overconfident about Trump’s victory, and that’s the problem
We have to remind her what is the alternative, How much wall will Joe Biden build?
And it is not like Trump is a perfect president (but he is so close to be one😀)
And I think that Ann Coulter has just lost it…
Sessions was a great senator, one of the rare, truly conservative senators during all of the Obama Administration debacle. He came out early in favor of Trump, a pretty risky decision. So Trump was grateful, obviously, and when he won appointed Sessions as AG. Sessions should never have accepted that position because he was not an administrator, he was a political philosopher who was in no way experienced enough to oversee a department of thousands of people. Trump, we all know, did not come to DC with a long list of people to appoint to important posts, and Sessions was a relatively easy choice given his allegiance during the campaign, but it just didn’t work out for the above reason.
Sessions made a strategic mistake in recusing himself because he was more loyal to esoteric DC rules than to an administration under attack. It was early in the coup against Trump, but to Trump, who saw the war as a war, Sessions was too interested in fighting like Republicans have always fought: follow rules while the enemy does not. For Trump, who wants and demands people to fight fire with fire, Sessions just wasn’t in the fight and had to go, and furthermore Sessions has never recanted his decision to recuse (and Coulter agrees with his decision). Coulter tries to make the case for Sessions because of Sessions’ work and history of wanting stronger immigration enforcement, which in theory aligned with Trump’s inclinations, but Trump saw the war against his very presidency as more threatening to his fight with the Left.
Like Bill said, no one can put themselves into Trump’s place and understand the pressures he has had to bear. Maybe he is too harsh on Sessions but you have to know that the number of arrows flying Trump’s way means he can’t possibly make perfect decisions every time. He’s going with Session’s primary opponent because he wants someone who he thinks is a fighter first and foremost, despite Session’s history of allegiance. Trump always fights the enemy who is coming over the walls and worry about those who are preparing for later attack because you have to survive the immediate in order fight again later.
Trump, if he is anything, is a shape-shifter of sorts, because every day is a new, challenging political environment, which means he is ready to adjust every day, every hour almost, in order to fight the incredibly slippery DC swamp. And Trump wants people around him who think this way as well. So even though he has indeed made some decent effort at mitigating immigration, he had other battles to fight and for Coulter to in effect criticize Trump for not doing enough is to be totally insensitive to what Trump has done, and especially for in effect ignoring what Clinton would have done had she won! And but for Trump we’d have Clinton. Period.
Thanks for the reminder of Sessions previous record. I would still go with the new blood and the (hopeful) fighter.
Adding a little something to what Karen said below:
Calling out Trump’s “disloyalty” with respect to Sessions is a poor cliff for Coulter to jump off. Trump didn’t want Sessions but the savvy political folks explained to him that he was the best choice for two reasons: 1st – he would be easily confirmed by the Senate and give Trump an easy cabinet fill; 2nd – he had a safe seat for the GOP in Alabama. If you recall after Doug Jones victory, Trump commented “safe seat, huh!”
So he got an AG that didn’t fight AND lost a needed seat to the DNC both because he listened to the “experts” who had been around DC so long.
That said: Jeff Sessions is 73 years old (would be 74 before the next term starts, 80 at the end of it); served in the Senate for 20 years. He represents the typical SWAMP dweller that we sent Trump to bring down.
Tommy Tuberville is 8 years younger and had a successful career outside of politics. Now he wants to try public service. Why shouldn’t Trump endorse him?
If I recall correctly, Coulter broke with Trump at least two years ago. I remember reading about it because the MSM were running clips of her saying Trump would win 2016 and crying…hypocracy? …inconsistency? …flip-flopping? I don’t remember – they were crying.
In every situation where he’s speaking off-the-cuff, Trump always, without fail, says exactly whatever springs to mind at that instant. But he almost never follows through on those utterances when they would otherwise matter. Remember when he claimed that only the president has the authority to open up the states after lockdown? Nothing came of it. There are many such instances.
I could never be friends with Trump, he’s an asshole. But he’s doing a darn good job as president.
Ann Coulter has some good points at times, she will take an unpopular opinion and push it relentlessly.
She gets a lot of heat when she takes a defensible opinion and cranks up her rhetoric to get attention.
So I’m fine with supporting Ann when she’s got something to say, but when she’s just making a lot of noise for attention, which seems to be the case, not so much.
In this case, when I parse through the drama, there’s not much to it beyond “I’d like Trump to do things differently.” Sure, but Trump can’t please everyone.
THANK YOU BILL! We support Trump…We do not worship him. His errors are as real and potentially dangerous as any other human being in his place.
Glad you said it as you did!
I LOVE YOUR USERNAME!!!
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Many thanks, Ma’am!
I think Bill is 100% correct
Is Trump sometimes petty and vindictive? Of course. As Bill says, that’s the price we have to pay for someone who gets things done. But for Ann Coulter to be the one throwing stones? Maybe those two are just too much alike to ever get along for any prolonged period.
Up until late last year when Trump started making progress on the Wall, I thought she had a point. And it’s not enough even now. But it’s more than any other president has ever done for us.
That is a great story about Winston Churchill. Isn’t it interesting that someone with such metaphorically tough skin in reality had such sensitive skin?
I don’t subscribe to the 5D chess hypothesis but I do think that Trump is an absolute master at distracting the media with trivialities while he gets real work done that they never notice.
I’m not an Ann Coulter fan, and I’ve never been a Jeff Sessions fan. I think he took the AG job to double dip his pension at the end of his career (Senate and AG), lol. You only have to look at the way Barr took charge of the DOJ to see the difference with the way Sessions ran things. Sessions was okay to let all the hold overs continue to run the show, while he stepped out of the way. I think Trump made a bad pick for the AG job that first time. He was learning the political game. Does that mean Trump should trash the guy now? Probably not, but no one really knows what went on behind the scenes when Sessions was still part of the cabinet.
Today we need Trump as Bill said. What saddens me is this constant (from all sides) instant vilification of people like Ann Coulter. That said, I think she went overboard in her rant.
I tend to think of the long term like I thought of South & Central American countries that had revolutions seeming constantly with no good results because they were focused on ‘throwing out’ and had ‘no idea or plan to replace’ so the end result was usually worse than the original condition.
I never seem to hear these people say who they think would be better and the reply, ‘anyone’ proves the lack of real thought on their part.
They are children smashing their toys and cutting up their only close because they, in their wisdom mad at someone or something that needs planning to INTELLIGENTLY do the long term right thing.
YMMV 😉
Clothes & childish wisdom, my fingers were no fallowing my thoughts and I forgot to proof read carefully. Sometimes my mind sees what it expects rather than what is actually there.
::: sigh ::: I give up ::::
I don’t have to vilify her. She vilifies herself with over the top kneejerk nonsense like this.
Sessions? He sat on his hands when he was AJ and didn’t even start doing his job. Why would anyone expect Trump to support Sessions for any public office? Sessions is one of the many members of the Spelunker Party who are better at caving than holding on to any rational principles. He is best left to fade into history totally forgotten.
Ann Coulter? Clearly miffed about something but that is irrelevant. Principles are irrelevant to her. She is angry and lashing out.
I suggest that she is demonstrating her own inner character more than she is describing Trump. She has lost ANY respect I have had for her. She is worthy of only being ignored.
With all respect sir, someone needs to tell the Emperor he has no clothes and Ann is one of the few who has been doing that. Unlike the Obama administration where DimWits and Rhino’s were carrying that lowlife’s water and all the while he was destroying the country I helped defend.
I don’t care if it’s Trump or some other magic mushroom politician, if they are not doing the job they were elected to do, they will be told.
Just exactly what do you think that Trump was elected to do?
What are the facts that support the charges “complete moron,” “blithering idiot” and a “shallow and broken man”? There are none!
Is there another president who has accomplished more given that the entire MSM, every demented lefty, and almost the entire body of so called Republican politicians were working against him? Non in my life time (83 years) and I doubt yours.
As far as I am concerned, he has accomplished more of what I voted for him to do than I had any rational reason to expect. This in spite of almost universal TDS and his unfortunate self destructive religiosity.
As always, you are entitled to your opinions but not to your facts.
Exactly
Sir
For sure there may be some criticism to be made for Trump
Please note that the first rule for getting criticism is never accept anything as criticism from someone who hates you
Now, herring Ann Coulter’s language – what do you think?
To Ann Coulter: I think you’ve been hanging out too much with Bill Maher. Remember how you wrote (in “How to Talk to a Liberal–if you must”): “Alcoholics hang around alcoholics, drug addicts hang around drug addicts, liars hang around liars. Vices of a feather flock together. . . . [I]t’s a warning to keep those friends at a distance.” (pg. 341f.).
I would hope that you, as a professing Christian, would temper your language, and stop talking like Bill Maher and more like, say, Bill[y] Graham!
Ann firmly believes the only issue worth fighting for is immigration. I agree it’s a serious one that needs serious attention, but considering what that man has had to put up with every day since he took office is astronomical. The fact that he even got a portion of the wall built, in my opinion, is a miracle in itself.
I don’t agree with Trump 100% of the time, but her vitriol is just a wee bit excessive to say the least.
I’ve never been a fan of Coulter – I always hated how she couldn’t even articluate good arguments against Alan Colmes back when she would go on Hannity & Colmes
I’d totally forgotten about Alan Colmes. I used to refer to him as Blind Mouse Man.
Honestly, I think that show was better when Sean had a foil. At least it was more interesting. I stopped watching ages ago as it just wasn’t intellectually stimulating. If he’s gotten better in the past five years, I wouldn’t know.
I would much rather listen to Bill, Scott and Steve for 30 minutes.
Agreed – Sean was better with Alan. I haven’t watched Fox since we cut the cord after Little Bob was born. Even then, at the end I only found myself watching them as the rotation of my morning news shows – I’d watch them two days, one day CNN, one day MSNBC & the 5th day was either CNN/MSNBC or Mike & Mike (ESPN) on Mondays during football season. I used to watch O’Reilley back in teh day too, but at the end by the time he’d be on I already knew all of teh stories he was covering & only DVRd for when Bernie Goldberg or Dennis Miller appeared.
From what I’m hearing I’m not missing much
Some time back we got rid of our satellite TV subscription. Finally ended up with Hulu+ but in the interim we stopped watching morning news programs and started listening to music. Our mornings are now free of any aggravation and our days are noticeably calmer. I get my news during the day from several different on-line sources. We rarely watch any TV “news” program. I do not consider myself the least bit un-informed.
No, you haven’t missed anything. I can count the number of times I’ve turned on Fox News in the last 6 months on just part of one hand. I catch a bit of O’Reilly on Fridays on Glenn Beck’s radio show and I do miss Dennis Miller, but the rest of it? Not so much.
Julieann, got to agree about the amount to flack Trump has faced since even before he too office I am shocked he can even function well enough to get out of bed in the morning let alone fight back against the media and democrats daily and build even a portion of the wall. Her criticism is excessive in my opinion as well.