How to make sure Trump won't budge on wall funding

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter on Wednesday predicted that President Trump would "fold" on his demand for funding for his proposed southern border wall, a demand which has led to the current partial government shutdown.

“For one thing, he actually did shut down the government — though don’t worry, he’ll fold in the end," Coulter said while speaking on the "Mark Simone Show" on 710 WOR in New York.

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Not now he won't. Congress will have to pass something and override his veto.

“The one person who deserves the most credit of all, for going ballistic when Trump caved on wall funding right before Christmas, which I think we got him to take back, is Matt Drudge," she argued, referring to the founder of the conservative news aggregation site The Drudge Report.

"He was the one who put it up as the siren.”

Suddenly Ann doesn't want the credit?

The Drudge Report ran the headline "Trump in Retreat" as Democrats and Republicans deliberated on a spending bill in December, according to The Week.

I'm sure that helped.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday cautioned President Trump against giving in on his demand for funding for his proposed U.S.–Mexico border wall, claiming that doing so would likely be "the end of his presidency."

“He’s not going to sign a bill that doesn’t have money for the wall. I can tell you exactly how this is going to end. The president is going to challenge Democrats to compromise and if they continue to say no, they’re going to pay the price with the American people," Graham said during an appearance on Fox News's "Hannity."

  The Hill

I disagree with that conclusion, but whatever.

“If he gives in now, that’s the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president," he continued. "That’s the probably the end of his presidency. Donald Trump has made a promise to the American people. He’s going to secure our border."

Well, he's going to keep alternating between what a great job he's doing keeping the border secure and how the Democrats are going to get you killed by not funding a border wall.

“That’s the end of us if we give in on this issue as Republicans," Graham said. "I hope Mitt Romney and everybody else knows this is a fight worth having."

Let us pray that's the end of you. But it won't be. Until the GOP acknowledges that there are two parties in one, they don't stand a chance. Once this new Dem party becomes as divided as the GOP is now, if the centrists in both are smart, they'll split off and combine into a third party which would then be able to dominate.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.