Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has been on the war path since President Trump “begrudgingly” signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Friday – even tweeting on Friday morning that he was “considering a VETO” over the fact that the bill didn’t include provisions for DACA recipients or the border wall.
I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2018
“I will never sign another bill like this again,” said Trump during Friday’s signing – to which Coulter replied “Yeah, because you’ll be impeached.”
“ I will never sign another bill like this again”
Yeah, because you’ll be impeached.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 23, 2018
Coulter also congratulated “President Schumer” over the the bill’s passage.
CONGRATULATIONS, PRESIDENT SCHUMER!
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 23, 2018
Of note, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared the spending bill rushed through by Republicans a “victory.”
And on Sunday, Coulter appeared on Fox News where she told host Jeanine Pirro how disappointed she was in Trump.
“We thought that perhaps he was not the world’s greatest negotiator but a negotiator and we got nothing,” said Coulter. “There was only one guy who said at every speech, at every rally, for two years that he would build the wall,” adding “He has now signed a bill to prohibit building the wall.”
.@AnnCoulter joined me live on ‘Justice’, take a look! pic.twitter.com/CAo4Enl44r
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) March 25, 2018
Coulter noted that the omnibus spending bill only contained $1.6 billion in funding for Trump’s awll, which is devoted to shoring up current fencing, and uses none of the new wall designs Trump toured two weeks ago.
Omnibus bans Trump from using any of the prototype models of border walls– only rickety fencing that has been shown not to work on other parts of the border. https://t.co/wa5VTVzs87
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 25, 2018
Trump had originally asked for $25 billion over 10 years for the project.
Judge Pirro defended Trump, telling Coulter that the omnibus bill passed because “the Republicans didn’t care enough.”
“But we knew that. We knew that from Trump’s campaign. We knew they were swine,” replied Coulter. “There is no more crucial attack on our national defense than the fact that we don’t have a wall.”
Coulter talked more trash over Twitter Sunday, tweeting “No wonder Kim Jong-un wants to have a sit-down negotiation with Trump. He’ll walk away with working nukes.“
No wonder Kim Jong-un wants to have a sit-down negotiation with Trump. He’ll walk away with working nukes.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 25, 2018
That said, some have posited that Trump is going to use the military budget contained within the omnibus bill to fund the wall anyway:
Immediately after he alluded to the wall’s military function, Trump called upon Gen. James Mattis to comment on the newly secured military budget.
“In 1790, in George Washington’s first annual address to Congress, he stated, to be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving the peace,” Mattis said. “Now, it’s our responsibility in the military to spend every dollar wisely in order to keep the trust and the confidence of the American people and the Congress.”
The general’s mention of “spending every dollar wisely” stood out in particular because the military would have to secure just 3.8 percent in cost savings in order to fund the wall construction.
Considering how urgently Trump wants to build the wall, it’s a surprise he didn’t float the military option earlier. As commander in chief, he has ultimate power over the military. –Epoch Times
Coulter instead suggested this was more subterfuge;
If he wanted to build a wall, he’d have built the wall. Suddenly noticing that he already has the power to do it is just a new way to keep scamming his voters. https://t.co/NrNLUsAoTS
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 25, 2018
As we reported on Friday, Coulter isn’t the only conservative to take issue with Trump signing the bill…
It might be my memory, or maybe I’m just getting hard of hearing, but I don’t recall chants of “dramatically increase military funding” and “protect dreamers” at Trump’s campaign events.
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) March 23, 2018
President Trump signs the monstrosity omnibus spending bill.
He says he didn’t know what was in it.
What a horrible waste of OUR money funding Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary Cities, Obamacare, & Democratic pet interests.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) March 23, 2018
A larger number of GOP lawmakers are expected to vote “No” on final passage of the Omnibus in the House pic.twitter.com/RQiJKm9cqK
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) March 22, 2018
So with Coulter calling out the “great negotiator” Trump for his failure to negotiate, and much of Trump’s base in disarray over the omnibus bill and the appointment of Iran hawk John Bolton as National Security Advisor, one wonders if libertarian-leaning conservatives who believed “this time it’s different” might find themselves a bit deflated come midterms.
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