Trump is visiting the border Thursday. Wall enthusiast Ann Coulter thinks that's a 'moronic' idea.
The White House began a campaign Monday to pressure lawmakers into funding President Trump's border wall by arguing that there's a "crisis" on the U.S.-Mexico border that is serious enough to warrant a constitutionally dubious exercise of presidential emergency authority. Trump himself will make his case in a prime-time address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, and then he will travel to the border city of McAllen, Texas, on Thursday.
Conservative provocateur Ann Coulter, a longtime booster of Trump's proposed wall and one of the pundits credited with convincing him to shut down the government over it, was on board with Trump giving "a serious Oval Office speech explaining why a Wall is the only compassionate solution." But she was less impressed with Thursday's presidential excursion.
It's not clear if Trump personally saw Coulter's tweetstorm, as he unfollowed her after her last blast at his wall tactics.
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