Ann Coulter celebrates Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation: ‘Hallelujah!’

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter celebrated the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday.

In a torrent of tweets, Coulter also ribbed President Trump, whom she supported during the 2016 campaign for his tough stance on immigration but more recently has become one of his most vocal critics for his struggle with building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Hallelujah! Secretary Nielsen has resigned!” Coulter tweeted. “Good news: Secretary Nielsen has resigned! Bad news: Trump considering Jorge Ramos as replacement,” Coulter said in another, referring to Univision’s Jorge Ramos, a Mexican-American journalist who has been highly critical of Trump’s immigration policies.

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“CORRECTION: There will be no replacement for Nielsen. Homeland Security will be rolled in Jared’s portfolio along with Middle East Peace, De-Imprisonment, Re-Organize Government and American Innovation,” Coulter said in another tweet, referring to Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

Coulter shared a tweet from Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, who said: “No surprise here. I said she was failing POTUS. She was never on board with @realDonaldTrump tough border stance. She never had answers to the crisis at the border. ‘Can’t’ was her favorite lead word. Trump needs a ‘can-do’ Secretary.”

Coulter replied: “Exactly! Why didn’t she build a wall? Oh that’s right. She’s not the president.”

Trump confirmed Nielsen’s resignation after they met at the White House early Sunday evening. In doing so, Trump announced Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will become acting DHS secretary.

Coulter appeared to express her dismay with McAleenan by retweeting a tweet that said he is a member of the “Deep State” who is a “known as the architect of Obama’s ‘#CatchAndRelease.'”

Coulter also got in some jibes about reports about whom Trump may be considering to nominate to take over as DHS secretary in a full-time capacity, including: Energy Secretary Rick Perry, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“You lose again, 3-D Trumpsters! @realDonaldTrump considering Rick Perry and Ken Cuccinelli, total 100% open borders Republicans. Not a lying conman at all,” she quipped in one tweet.

Her preference, it seems, is Kobach, who recently said Trump does not need Congress to solve the “immediate crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border, where a surge in migrants have made their way from Central American.

“Because, you see, what @realDonaldTrump really likes in his admin is very low I.Qs. Harvard/Yale/Oxford-educated Kobach is, therefore, out of the question!” she said in one tweet. “Trump’s immigration agenda is a full-blown catastrophe because putting anyone other than Kris Kobach at DHS is like having the ACLU advise him on judges, instead of the Federalist Society,” she added in another.

Coulter has been increasingly hostile towards Trump, calling for him to be harder on immigration policy and border security. For instance, after Trump backed off his threat to shut down the border to force dramatic immigration reform by Congress last week, Coulter took a victory lap, tweeting, “HEY! Who bet me that @realDonaldTrump was actually going to ‘close the border’?”

Her criticism in December has been blamed for Trump’s decision to tank a spending deal that didn’t provide more than $5 billion for border security, leading to the longest shutdown in government history. During the 35-day partial shutdown, she railed against Trump, saying that he would be “dead in the water” if he reopened the government without the wall money.

Trump unfollowed her on Twitter; the president only follows 45 people and appears to have a “one-in, one out” policy for his follows.

Claude Thompson contributed to this report.

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