Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich likes to say that there are two Donald Trumps. "I've said this publicly, there's a big Trump and a little Trump," Gingrich said on ABC's "This Week" before last year's election. "The big Trump is a historic figure. The big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination."
Almost a year after Trump also beat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to become president of the United States, some of his most ardent supporters worry that there are indeed two Trumps: the one they fell in love with during the 2016 campaign and the one sitting in the Oval Office.
No one illustrates that more clearly than Ann Coulter, a syndicated conservative columnist and author. While most established conservative journalists supported other candidates during the Republican primaries, and many remained "Never Trump" even in the general election, Coulter eagerly climbed aboard the Trump Train.
Coulter called Trump an "emperor god." She described his August 2016 immigration address in Phoenix as "the most magnificent speech ever given." After the release of Trump's campaign immigration policy paper, the antiabortion commentator tweeted that she didn't care if he "wants to perform abortions in the White House" if he stuck to its recommendations as president. She appeared at campaign rallies. She even wrote a book titled In Trump We Trust.
That was then. Now, Coulter complains about Trump regularly. "At this point, who DOESN'T want Trump impeached?" she asked on Twitter, the president's favorite social media platform. In her columns, she has been just as scathing.
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01.21.2025