Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter said she won’t vote for President Trump in 2020 if the border wall isn’t being built by then.
“No. Nor will, I think, most of his supporters,” Coulter told the Daily Caller when asked if she would support Trump if the wall hasn’t gone anywhere. “Why would you? To make sure, I don’t know, Ivanka and Jared can make money? That seems to be the main point of the presidency at this point.”
Coulter added that without the wall, Trump’s presidency will have been “a joke.”
“They’re about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again,” Coulter told the Daily Caller in a podcast Wednesday. “Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he’ll have no legacy whatsoever.”
Coulter said she thinks many of Trump’s supporters would also abandon him in his 2020 reelection campaign if he fails to secure significant funding for the border wall.
On Wednesday morning, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that the GOP would soon propose a continuing resolution that does not include the border wall funding, but would keep the government open and operational through Feb. 8.
Threats of a partial government shutdown loom as the Department of Homeland Security and eight other government agencies’ funding will run out midnight on Friday.
Coulter claimed that if Trump were to back the short-term spending bill, he would be walking back on his “line in the sand” he drew last week when he told Democrat Leaders Nancy Pelosi, Calif., and Chuck Schumer, N.Y., that he would be “proud to shutdown the government” over lack of border wall funding.
