Trump is visiting the border Thursday. Wall enthusiast Ann Coulter thinks that's a 'moronic' idea.

published 8 January 2019

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.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.