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.”
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
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.
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! Look to final results! Don’t know how my poll numbers are so good, especially up 19% with Hispanics?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2019
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.”
Kilmeade: Trump “cares way too much about people in the media” pic.twitter.com/tKFTEyHdwl
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 28, 2019
