JESSE KELLY, HOST: Why are you mad at Trump right now?
ANN COULTER: I think this war is a disaster. Disaster. Utterly pointless. The three pillars of the Trump campaign, both in 2016 and 2020, that set him apart from every other Republican and every other Democrat. I mean, for the first time, this is the basket of issues I wanted to vote on.
Number one, the wall, deport illegals, the whole immigration program. Number two, bring back manufacturing, the tariff stuff. I’m all in favor of that. Our working class in America has been absolutely wiped out. I don’t think we need a lot of schlock from China. Why are we building them up? I mean, I think a lot of it has to do with labor unions, but solve the problem of labor unions. Don’t just outsource everything we make, either by bringing them here to work cheap, or by having it done over there. The third pillar was no more pointless wars.
I mean, I think I’m in a good position to say this. There was no one more enthusiastic about both the Afghanistan and Iraq war when they began. It was, of course, right after 9/11, and the country didn’t just have another two million illegals dumped on it. We weren’t going through all of this transgender madness. We weren’t quite as in hock to China, so the country itself wasn’t in nearly as much trouble. Oh my gosh, the crime right now.
Think of the crime. The Democratic policy is just release criminals, release criminals. Those are issues that have an effect on America. That’s making America first, cleaning up that stuff. Waging pointless wars around the world and being the world’s policeman. How many times do we have to vote on this?
I mean, Trump was attacked for the things he said in 2016. Remember, he said, Jeb’s father lied us into war. The Wall Street Journal and New York Post assured us that that was going to kill him in South Carolina, biggest military state in the country.
That was in the South Carolina primary. Next day, primaries hold. Who wins? Huge, huge majority. Donald Trump. We have voted on this over and over and over again. Now what? We’ve already had how many? Seven Americans die, not to mention 166 school children in our name for a war that does not make one American safer.
