After Trump announced he would reopen the government for three weeks to negotiate a long-term solution (with no promise of border wall funds), a number of high-profile media personalities on the right were livid, including some of the president’s most prominent supporters.

Right-leaning pundit Ann Coulter, who called Trump a “sociopath” in December while arguing that perhaps only a sociopath could win the fight to build a border wall, tweeted Friday that Trump’s decision made him a “wimp” in the line of late President George H.W. Bush. (It should be noted that for all his faults, President H.W. Bush was not a wimp.)

Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 25, 2019
But Coulter isn’t just a Trump-supportive media personality. Her 2015 book Adios, America, which was full of anecdotes about “Latin American rape culture,” was a Trump favorite when he launched his presidential campaign. Coulter even introduced Trump at a 2015 rally in Dubuque, Iowa, saying, “I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump. … Make it a big worldwide tourist attraction and everyday live drone shows whenever anyone tries to cross the border. I have not had this much hope for America since November 7, 2012.” She followed up Adios, America with her 2016 book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!

Coulter wasn’t alone in calling Trump out on the carpet. Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, a longtime immigration hawk, said on his show Friday that Trump had been “whipped” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “This president said it was going to be conditional, border security, building that wall, and he just reversed himself. That’s a victory for Nancy Pelosi.”

Trump attempted to fire back against his critics on Twitter and in interviews, even railing against Fox News for its coverage of negotiations over a border wall by opining that two Fox News reporters “have even less understanding” of those discussions than CNN or NBC. And he spoke out against Coulter specifically, telling a Wall Street Journal reporter, “I hear she’s become very hostile. Maybe I didn’t return her phone call or something.”

“Shutdown cost U.S. economy $11 billion, budget office says” – CNBC

The 35-day partial government shutdown cost the U.S. economy $11 billion, $3 billion of which is gone forever, a Congressional Budget Office report found. […] – CNBC, MSNBC, CNN et al

Numerous bankruptcies. Driving his business into the ground. Costing Us (American tax-payers including government employees) $11 BILLION dollars -$3 Billion of it GONE forever!?!

All of that and countless OTHER Trump FAILURES are as natural to the guy as breathing…smh.

Exactly right Truth. Presidents have been creating a war just too look good and get people on their side since the beginning of time. Theres already a problem going on in Venezuela so I would not put it past Trump.

I agree BD. He won’t take this lying down and Congress ain’t giving him his wall.

Which means he’ll probably try declaring it a “national security emergency” but that effort will get immediately challenged, and remain tied up in court for Lord knows how long(?)

I don’t put it past that fool to order an illegal strike against Venezuela (or even Iran) just to try to make it appear that he’s our “fearless leader” again. He’s just that stupid AND dangerous.

I hope we can trust our military commanders to NOT follow him off a cliff.