Ann Coulter Lets It Rip on the Midterms, Iran, Immigration and More

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]got a lot to talk to our friend Anne Coulter about. She is a 13time New York Times bestselling author and of course her Substack Unsafe is fantastic stuff and you should all go check it out. Miss Coulter, thank you for making the time for us. Can I jump right in with Democrats really think they're going to put forward a uh a vegan who makes Tim Walsh look like Conan the Barbarian as their Senate candidate in Texas of all places? How did this happen?

[00:00:37]um they get very excited over any any Democratic candidates uh who are appear to be heterosexual white males because that is such a de declining part of the Democratic party base. Um so yeah, they've been very very excited about him. But I'm totally with you.

[00:00:58]Uh no, if if Texas will reelect Ted Cruz, they'll elect Ken Paxton. I was delighted by his victory. By the way, Cornin is a disaster on immigration. I tweeted it out yesterday morning um and wrote about it in my column this week briefly. Uh he's But one of the things that the media loves saying right now is that um you know how beholden all the Republicans are to Trump. I mean, there are a lot of things they ought to be beholden to him on, like his immigration policy. Um but it's that um you know, he keeps taking down you know, whomever he he endorses.

[00:01:33]It's it's that that the magic formula.

[00:01:36]He can get anybody elected. He can defeat any incumbent. But I happen to notice there's a lot of overlap with the incumbent Republican senators who are defeated and the incumbent Republican senators who voted for Marco Rubio's amnesty. Um obviously a lot of them ended up opposing Trump. They also oppose Trump because they opposed Trump for his immigration policies which were anti-amnesty.

[00:02:00]Um, but I think a lot more is going into this than just whom Trump decides to to endorse or not to.

[00:02:07]>> Can I just real quick Clay wants to jump in and but I just wanted to say we had Cornin on the day before the election there and and he was saying his whole thing was Donald Trump is, >> you know, I'm going to be with Donald Trump 100% of the time. And I love Trump and Trump's amazing. Trump put out a tweet the day before saying Cornin's a backstabber. He's a coward. you can't trust him. I'm like, how is this going to work?

[00:02:34]>> Well, he he one of the things I I I noted in my column yesterday, yeah, he suddenly starts voting like a conservative every six years when he's facing reelection, >> but then get him the off years. And oh my gosh, he's the worst of the rhinos. I mean, immigration isn't the only thing.

[00:02:52]It used to be um when we were kids, abortion was a really good litmus test for Republicans. Um I knew Wall Street guys who were all for abortion. They just wanted their taxes cut. But they said told me they would always vote for the pro-life candidate because he would be more likely to cut their taxes. Um abortion was just a good litmus test for are you really a conservative or are you a fake phony fraud? And I'm telling you, immigration is the new is the new one.

[00:03:21]If they're bad on immigration, they're going to be bad on a million other things as Cornin was. He tried to push this massive DEI civic education on all the public schools in America. And you know, everybody, Washington Examiner and uh Real Clear Politics, I think National Review had an article. Everybody's going nuts over this. And nope, nope. You know, part of his problem is the number one issue I vote on is of course immigration, but a close second is IQ.

[00:03:50]Um, and he is not a smart man. But anyway, no use kicking a guy when he's down. Um, you know, thanks for being a Republican all these years.

[00:03:58]>> Uh, what do you think Democrats are going to do in 2028? I've got a bet with Buck. I think they're still going to be hamstrung by identity politics and Kamla is going to say, "I'm a black woman and it's racist and sexist if I'm not the nominee." And I think black female voters are going to stay with her. Mayor Pete is gay and black guys aren't going to vote for him. Gavin Newsome has no real base because he's going to be fighting with the left-wing wine moms alongside of Mayor Pete, their gay best friend. Uh Josh Shapiro is gay and sorry Josh Shapiro is Jewish and that is uh that is I don't think he's gay short. Yes, but he's he's Jewish. You can't be Jewish now and get a nomination. So what are they going to do? I think it's going to be Kamla. I know we're a little ways out and I know everybody's talking about the midterms right now, but have you started to handicap what they're going to do and how they're going to break this thing down?

[00:04:56]>> I say Newsome just for the purpose of conversation. Go ahead, Ann.

[00:05:01]I first of all um I completely object to being asked to predict something to almost two years from now um because it will just come back to bite me. But I am I am with Buck on this one. I and I I I think they realize um I think this is part of the reason Gresian Whitmer pulled out today. Um I think they realize this identity politics isn't working. We have to win. We have to win. We have to win.

[00:05:29]I don't know if you remember, but when uh I think it was when Clinton was president and um what's his name? Rahm Emanuel right after he worked for Clinton, he was the one picking nominees for the Democrats to run for Congress and I I think some Senate cases. And oh my gosh, he was going for the most atypical Democrats, any Democrat who had served in the military, any Democrat who was a white heterosexual male. So they know that running running somebody like AOC or Kamala or Hillary, oh my gosh, the country does not want a woman president.

[00:06:09]Um I'm I'm one of those Americans who does not want a woman president. Um so I they're very bossy. The Democrats the Democrats don't care about her feelings.

[00:06:19]They want to win.

[00:06:21]>> What is the most interesting Senate matchup to you coming into this? So now now we'll get into his predictions a few months out. Um but what what dynamics are of highest interest to you? Is it is it Georgia? Is it this guy? I got to say all of a sudden like they've gone from just saying that Republicans are Nazis to Democrats saying I mean so the guy's got a Nazi tattoo on his chest. Who doesn't? Like no big deal.

[00:06:46]Well, funny you should say that when you said, you know, which I I don't pay that much attention I I must say to retail politics, probably more than the average bear, but yeah. Um um Platner, is that his name? Graham Platner up in Maine.

[00:07:00]Um, that one I I I will, as as moderate and kind of liberal as Susan Collins is, the Republican senator from out there, she probably matches the state and she voted for Kavanaaugh and I will always love her for that. Um, I think she will win. Um, I also will say I actually don't think the Nazi tattoo is that big a deal as um, though I like I like that we can make fun of him for it. I think most people would not have known that. I mean, it's not a swastika. You get a tattoo that's a swastika. We know what you're doing. Um, this one, I think, could very easily not. He had no idea that that. But there's a lot else that's really hideous and awful about him.

[00:07:46]>> Hold on. Let me let me let me let me jump in on the Nazi tattoo. You might get super wasted at some point in time and get a tattoo. Maybe there's some people out there in our audience that have made that choice. I think at some point though, you would recognize that you got super wasted. You had the Nazi tattoo and he kept it for 20 years. It reminds me of that scene in Succession where they're quizzing the guy about whether he's a Nazi or not, and they're like, "Did you name your dog the same as Hitler's dog?" And he's like, "Well, I spelled it differently." It's It's like Captain Naz. A great scene, by the way.

[00:08:26]It's a uh you kept the Nazi tattoo for 20 years. So, you get wasted, you get a Nazi tattoo. At some point, when you're not wasted and you are growing into adulthood, you don't think maybe it's time to give up the Nazi tattoo. At least before you ran for Senate. I mean, that that to me is the part where it kind of gets crazy. Until um up until a month ago, 95% of Americans could have seen that and would not have said, "Oh yeah, that's a Nazi tattoo."

[00:08:55]>> Now everybody knows, but I don't look at that.

[00:08:59]>> You would have known personally, right?

[00:09:02]Like you would have known for 20 years.

[00:09:04]At some point somebody would have been like, "Hey, that's a Nazi tattoo." And you'd have been like, "Oh, well that's not a good look. Maybe I'll get it removed when I'm 28 or 32 or 34." And it wouldn't have been that big of a story because you'd have been I think people would have said, "Okay, he was in the Marines. He got drunk and he got a a tattoo that he thought was kind of badass."

[00:09:22]>> You you've got you've got your view on this. Ed's got hers. I I am. We only got a couple minutes left with you on this.

[00:09:27]I wanted to >> making fun of the guy who I mean that I think is much worse. The really vicious nasty things he said about a fellow serviceman saying this idiot, he's such a douche. He should have died. Well, I'm sure you've read the exact quote, but it was it was hideous. It was ugly. the guy was going out to save his fellow soldiers. I I think that is and a lot of the things that that that Platner has said are a lot worse. There's no there's no equivocating on that.

[00:09:57]>> So, and um by the way, Ann Substack is unsafe, which you should go check out.

[00:10:02]And also, if you get mad at her, I'm sure there's a comment section there.

[00:10:06]And with that in mind, I'm not actually going to ask you directly about Iran because I don't want all of our phones to explode at the same time. Um but but I will because you know this deal is supposed to be announced and I've been I've been saying here it's going to be a deal to do a deal which is really not anyway we put that aside for a second.

[00:10:23]Uh I'm pretty pretty uh uh pessimistic on the whole thing. Immigration you are the one that got Trump initially thinking about immigration with Adios America back in 2016. He said it at the time I remember it and changed the whole immigration debate. Now second term all the lessons learned from term one. How is this Trump White House doing on immigration? What is working great? What is not enough? What needs to happen going forward?

[00:10:50]>> You can never do too much on immigration. It's the one issue I don't I assume you guys have been following the polling on this pretty closely.

[00:10:57]Trump is way underwater on every issue.

[00:11:00]Um particularly the economy, particularly his handling of of the Middle East. Yes, perhaps not your listeners. And by the way, I haven't written very much about Iran, but I will say this deal is fantastic. Would you trust the greatest deal maker we have ever had in the White House? I'm sure it's going to be beautiful. We can open up the straits. We can get gas flowing again. And maybe it won't be a total blowout in the midterms, but Trump's doing pretty great on immigration. Um, and I like, contrary to I should probably take this back. Um, I was making fun of Mark Mullen, the new head of DHS, because he had said some pro- amnesty things, and I, um, am a very, um, strict graater when it comes to immigration. But he's actually doing a fantastic job. Um, not doing the showy the showy stuff that gets everyone's attention on, you know, like Minneapolis or whatever, but he seems to be going full full speed ahead on the deportations. Um, and I guess I just read today H Homeman says, um, ISIS is going to start buying up these detention facilities so that they can control, for example, um, so it's owned by the federal government and they can control who's allowed to protest outside the detention facilities. Um, so yeah, I think immigration is great and look at the polls. It's the only issue Trump is doing well on.

[00:12:24]>> Where do we go from here? Um, do you think that uh that Democrats are going to win the House? They're going to impeach him. What is the Democrat counterargument to Trump right now other than just Trump is awful? Is it affordability? Like what do you think their selling point is as the midterm gets closer?

[00:12:43]Well, again, uh I guess contrary to your and Fox News listeners, um uh the country is not happy with the war and the war has led to the price of fuel, gas, um food going up. And yes, we can we can explain all all this. It'll it'll be temporary. It'll come down in the future. We don't want Iran to have nukes. But right now people people aren't everything that flows from that war a war they did not really see the point of to begin with. Um yes still I don't know what it is like 85% of MAGA Republicans support it. That is not true of independents. That is not true um of the country at large and that's really hurting him which is why this deal ending it is going to be fantastic.

[00:13:33]>> Yeah. As long as it's over. I mean, you're kind of where Clay is on this, I think, Ann, which is as long as this thing stops and the oil starts flowing again and we can move on, that's really what m it sounds like that's what matters to you the most.

[00:13:43]>> Yes. Yes. And if I mean, you you I think just mentioned it, Clay. If it if we don't get this deal done soon, um I think a lot of the Republican senators are wrong on the things they are mad at Trump for, but they are mad at Trump.

[00:14:00]They're mad at him for for taking out a couple of incumbents. um who are their friends, I guess. I'm glad we lost Cassidy. I'm glad we lost Cornin. Um they're mad at him for the um for the what they're calling, you know, the slush fund for the victims of Democrats warfare. Um footnote, I'm for that slush fund or the fund, whatever. The victim's fund.

[00:14:20]>> Yeah, the law fund. Sure.

[00:14:22]>> Republicans are mad at him. Um meaning if it is if it's a blowout midterm election against the Republicans, he's definitely getting impeached and it's not a certainty that the Senate will not remove him. You flip a few seats to the Democrats, you have a few Republicans who are who who are mad at the president. It's it's possible. It's very unlikely. Um, but it won't look good, which is why we really need Winning elections really, really matters. You can't get anything done if you don't win elections. We're probably gonna have a bad midterms. Let's anything we can do to just prevent it from being an absolute blowout is what um the president should be concentrating on right now.

[00:15:07]>> As we as we come to a close here with Ann, I'll just redirect to you. She said he's doing a great job on immigration.

[00:15:13]So, that's nice. He's got that going for him.

[00:15:15]>> And the deal I think the deal is fantastic. Thank you.

[00:15:19]>> She wants deal.

[00:15:20]>> She wants the deal. Guys, unsafe on Substack and check out Ann's column, anc fun. Thanks for being here.

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