Ann Coulter: To Help Bring America Back, the Best Thing Trump Could Do Is Die

What's up with Ann Coulter?

I've always found her to be rather strident, including when she was all on board with Donald Trump's 2016 candidacy; you may remember she wrote a book on the topic titled "In Trump We Trust - E Pluribus Awesome!" Only months later, Miss Coulter hopped off the Trump Train and became one of his most vocal critics.

If there's one thing Ann Coulter is good at, it's being vocal.

Still, no matter what you think of former President Trump, you have to admit that Miss Coulter crossed a line when she suggested on Twitter/X that the best thing Donald Trump could do for the country is "die." Yes, really.

Maybe he could die? https://t.co/TQPi5Bx3XB
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 4, 2024

What the hell, Ann?

Last month, Ann went on record to state that Trump voters are "morons."

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter expressed her frustration with Republican Trump voters over the weekend and made the case for why she doesn’t believe the former president can beat President Joe Biden in a general election.
“How many people who voted for Biden in 2020 have since switched to Trump?” Coulter asked on X/Twitter before breaking down the electoral math as she sees it:
If there are ANY, it’s a lot fewer than:
1) those who voted for Trump but who’ve since died (older white people);
2) immigrants who turned 18 in the last 4 yrs and will vote (minorities);
3) Republicans who voted for Trump in 2020, but have since changed their minds over, e.g. his behavior in the GA runoffs, and the 2022 “red wave” —
… losing election after election for the GOP by demanding that Republicans run on the “stolen 2020 election,” e.g. Blake Masters, Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano, Adam Laxalt, Don Bolduc, Joe Kent, etc.

She has a point about some of the people she points out losing elections, but the available numbers would seem to suggest she's wrong about Trump's chances, and she doesn't make any effort to include President Biden's mental and physical breakdown into account.

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Here's the onion:

Trump voters are morons cont'

NYT: <<“I prefer Trump because Democrats are trying to find any way they can to jail him,” she said.>>

Dems lie about Trump, THEREFORE he’d make a great president!

There aren’t enough drugs in the world that could make me that stupid.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 14, 2024

The first layer of this is her record in commentary. Ann has been swinging and missing pretty much right down the line.

Last August, she predicted that Trump wouldn't be the GOP's 2024 POTUS nominee. At this point, he has it all but locked up.
She has made racial comments about two GOP Presidential candidates that drew backlash - from the right.
Ann is even on record questioning whether women should vote.
In a wonderful bit of irony, last year she described Donald Trump as the "least self-aware person in the country." (Pot, meet kettle.)

The second layer of this is Ann's trademark attention-seeking. While Donald Trump has, for decades, shown himself to be a master of self-promotion, Ann Coulter seems to be trying to do the same thing, just rather less effectively. She positions herself as a conservative commentator and yet constantly attacks the GOP's front-runner. Ever since she was a talking head on MSNBC (she was), she has always been about the next outrageous statement, the next attention-seeking remark, the next Tweet that has a million hits.

I don't doubt that she doesn't care for Donald Trump; that much is genuine. But this latest tweet - suggesting that the best thing Trump could do for the nation is to die - shouldn't be taken seriously, and, honestly, neither should she. This is just another typical Coulter piece of attention-seeking, nothing more.