Lost Love: Trump Lashes Out At Right-Wingers After Widespread Critiques

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press event in the Rose Garden of the White House on January 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. The White House announced they've reached a deal with Congress to end the shutdown and open the federal government for three weeks to give time to work out a larger immigration and border security deal. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press event in the Rose Garden of the White House on January 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. The White House announced they've reached a deal with ... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press event in the Rose Garden of the White House on January 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. The White House announced they've reached a deal with Congress to end the shutdown and open the federal government for three weeks to give time to work out a larger immigration and border security deal. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump has been airing grievances with his once most beloved political supporters after they criticized him for his capitulation on the shutdown.

Though he already unfollowed her on Twitter in a fit of pique, Trump dismissed Ann Coulter during a Sunday interview with the Wall Street Journal.

“I hear she’s become very hostile,” he said. “Maybe I didn’t return her phone call or something.”

Coulter had goaded Trump on the wall for weeks, insisting that he would lose reelection if he caved. After he did, she called him a “wimp.”

Later that evening, Trump attacked his favorite cable news channel, saying that a Fox News host and guest misunderstood his secret mastery of the wall negotiations.

During the panel, correspondent Gillian Turner said that Trump “fell on his sword” on his wall demands.

But Trump isn’t the only half of a once symbiotic relationship with the right harboring some resentment.

Monday morning, Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade chided the President for his jab at Coulter in the Wall Street Journal.

‘I just think the President cares way too much about people in the media,” Kilmeade said. “He is President. He is not a candidate. He has got to make some tough decisions and he is not an absolute monarch.”

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  1. Avatar for docd docd says:

    ‘I just think the President cares way too much about people in the media,” Kilmeade said. “He is President. He is not a candidate. He has got to make some tough decisions and he is not an absolute monarch.”

    Oh, dear. That’s going to leave a mark.

  2. So that leaves only Russians and KJU on Trump’s good side.

  3. At the end of his term Trump will be widely regarded as an utter failure, wholly undeserving of another term.

    As a consequence citizens will have to do what makes sense, when viewing those comprising the electorate, and put him back in office.

  4. A male without a media. :laughing:

  5. Never thought I’d say this but I think @johnrobertsFox and @GillianHTurner @FoxNews have even less understanding of the Wall negotiations than the folks at FAKE NEWS CNN & NBC!

    Now he’s turning against Faux news. He must be watching the MSM or he wouldn’t know they’re being supportive.
    Which way is the wind blowing today, Donnie?

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