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Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter calledPresident Trump lazy and incompetent and a lunatic and warned that he could face a Republican primary challenger from the right if he doesnt fulfill his promise to build a wall across the Mexican border.

We put this lunatic in the White House for one reason, said Coulter in an interview on the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery.

Coulter even suggested a possible terrific primary challenger to the president Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., who recently chargedthat Democratic leaders in Congress have American blood on their hands for refusing to fund the wall.

Brookss office did not respond to a request for comment.

Coulters comments are her latest attempt to pressure the president to stand by his promise to build the border wall, a campaign she hasconducted largely on Twitter, where she called Trump a wimp for caving in to Democrats by allowing the government to reopen after a five-week shutdown. Coulter, with 2.14 million Twitter followers (compared to Trumps 57.9 million) appears to wield an outsized influence over the White House, and she wasnt shy in discussing it in her interview with Yahoo News Dan Klaidman and Michael Isikoff.

Thats none of your beeswax, she said, when asked if she is still talking to the president despite their seemingly frayed relationship.

In an interview last week, Trump remarked of Coulter, I hear shes become very hostile. Maybe I didnt return her phone call or something. Databases of Trumps tweets indicate he hasnt mentioned Coulter since August 2016, when he retweeted her praise of his campaign speech on immigration as the most magnificent speech ever given.

Asked about reports that Trump had unfollowed her on Twitter after one of her recent attacks, Coulter laughed and insisted: Hes still reading me. I can tell. Well, somebodys reading me. Theyre all reading me over there.

As if to underscore the point, Coulter repeatedly pressed an argument that Trump himself seemed to be making in a New York Times interview the same day: that the president doesnt need a congressional appropriation to build the wall, nor does he need to declare a national emergency.

Ann Coulter and the border wall (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images, Eric Gay/AP)

Instead, Coulter claimed, he can simply use his inherent authority as commander in chief to direct that the wall be built in order to protect United States citizens and defendthe country from illegal immigrants.

He doesnt need to declare an emergency to build the wall, Coulter said, claiming the president can simply order the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to begin construction.

I think Trump is gonna do that, Coulter said. I think hes finally going to pull that pocket Constitution out of his lapel pocket and [say], Oh my gosh, Im the president. This is great.

Coulter did not have an answer when challenged to name a constitutional scholar who would support such an extreme view of unilateral executive power. Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe ridiculed the idea in a Twitter response to Coulters comments Friday morning.

No! Inherent presidential power as C-in-Chief dsnt give Trump the power of the purse. We fought a revolution to end such power, he wrote.

But Trump seemed to be entertaining the idea in his interview with the New York Times the same day. Saying that his efforts to negotiate with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats were a waste of money and time and energy, the president insisted he will simply proceed with his plans for a wall anyway.

Ill continue to build the wall and well get the wall finished, Trump said. Now whether or not I declare a national emergency that youll see.

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpChristie: Trump apologized after knowingly lying during 2016 campaign White House abruptly cancelled meeting with intel chiefs day after contradicting Trump: report Trump denies involvement in Kushner security clearance application MORE on Sunday took a shot at conservative commentator Ann Coulter, a longtime supporter of his, after she criticized him for agreeing to reopen the government without a deal on his long-promised border wall.

I hear shes become very hostile, Trump said in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. Maybe I didnt return her phone call or something.

His jab comes shortly after Coulter blasted Trump repeatedly for not securing funding for a wall along the southern U.S. border, his signature campaign promise.

Coulter took to Twitter on Friday, the day lawmakers and the White House reached an agreement to end a 35-day-long partial shutdown,to blast Trump as "the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States."

Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States.

Later, the conservative provocateur made an appearance on comedian Bill Maher's show, where she continued to criticize the president for backing down on his demands for a border wall in order to reopen the government for three weeks.

Look, its crazy that I expect a president to keep a promise he made every day for 18 months," Coulter quipped to Maher.

She also appeared on Los Angeles radio stationKNX, where said there was"no question" that House Majority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiOvernight Defense Presented by Raytheon Senate admonishes Trump on Syria | Trump says 'time will prove' him right over Intel chiefs | Dems demand transparency on border troops | Sexual assault, harassment spike at military academies Overnight Health Care Presented by Kidney Care Partners Trump officials make new moves to lower drug prices | Romney offers warning to drug execs | 'Medicare for all' opens up Dem divide On The Money: Trump digs in on money for wall | Pelosi open to new border 'infrastructure' but no wall | GOP pushes Trump to stay out of negotiations | Trump optimistic about China trade deal MORE (D-Calif.) outmaneuvered Trump on the border negotiations.

Coulter has been one ofthe media's most vocal supporters of Trump's proposed border wall, and has warned the president repeatedly that he could lose in 2020 if he fails to follow through on his promise.

Trump, for his part, apparently unfollowed Coulter on Twitter in December shortly after she said she wouldn't support his reelection without a deal on a wall.

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Controversial right-wing pundit Ann Coulter confessed Friday night how shed gotten it wrong when it came to President Donald Trump.

Coulter, who was once one of the Trumps fiercest advocates, sarcastically told Real Time host Bill Maherhow it was crazy she expected Trump to keep the promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that hed made every day for 18 months.

You voted for him, Donald Trump, and now youre finding out hes a lying conman. What was your first clue? Maher asked.

Coulter replied: OK, Im very stupid girl, fine.

Shed earlier tweeted that Trump was the biggest wimp ever to serve as president, after he agreed to reopen the federal government for three weeks without having convinced Congress to fund the wall.

Trump either blocked or unfollowed Coulteron Twitter in December 2018 after she called him gutless. Many political observers claim Trump believes Coulter represents his base, which she alluded to her in her sit-down with Maher, and that her views can affect his decisions.

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Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpSunday shows preview: Shutdown negotiations continue after White House immigration proposal Rove warns Senate GOP: Don't put only focus on base Ann Coulter blasts Trump shutdown compromise: We voted for Trump and got Jeb! MOREs immigration proposal to end a partial government shutdown, suggesting the plan amounted to granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants.

Trump proposes amnesty," Coulter tweeted. "We voted for Trump and got Jeb!

Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!

100 miles of border wall in exchange for amnestying millions of illegals. So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall.

100 miles of border wall in exchange for amnestying millions of illegals. So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall.

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After Trump campaigned heavily on building a border wall during his 2016 presidential run, some of his most far-right supporters have cried foul at any perceived attempt to compromise on immigration. Coulter and other media hosts such as Rush Limbaugh have led the charge to convince the president to stick to his campaign promise.

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Its a textbook example of what the drive-by media calls compromise, Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday. Trump gets nothing, and the Democrats get everything, including control of the House.

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Rightwing scold Ann Coulter is tearing into President Donald Trumps offer to extend protections for the so-called immigrant Dreamers in exchange for Democrats support for $5.7 billion for his southern border wall.

Coulter lashed out after Trumpoffered to extend protections for three years under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) dismissed Trumps DACA offer as a non-starter.

Earlier this month Coulter told Lou Dobbs on Fox Business that she would rather deport Dreamers than MS-13 gang members.

Id deport the Dreamers before deporting MS-13 members. You catch them, they at least say, Ok, you got me, Coulter noted cryptically.

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