Ann Coulter has never been shy about her opinions, which is precisely what made her one of Trump’s most valuable allies for years. On Sunday, she brought that same energy to the president himself, this time from the opposite side of the divide.
Appearing on Washington Journal, Coulter made her view clear when host Peter Slen asked how she felt about Trump. “Not very happy with him! Not very happy at all,” she said, then went on to explain why at length, with characteristic restraint nowhere in sight.
“I think this Iran war is a fiasco,” she said. “I thought it from the beginning, and I think it’s hard for anyone to dispute that at this point.” She then went further, considerably. “I am not a pansy when it comes to war, when we need a real war. But this was an unprovoked attack. And we are killing little girls, Peter! We are associated with an ally that is just wiping the crap out of civilians, pharmacies, Trump threatening to end a civilization. This is a second-term president.”
Earlier in the week, Coulter had posted on X: “I really wish ‘legal experts’ hadn’t screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he’s actually committing war crimes.”
I really wish “legal experts” hadn’t screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he’s actually committing war crimes.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 5, 2026
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The argument being that years of overcorrecting on Trump’s lesser offenses had eroded the public’s capacity to register the serious ones.
Coulter also argued that Trump’s campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability had produced the precise opposite of its intended effect. “If anything, the rest of the world has gotten the message now, ‘Oh my gosh, we better get a nuke, develop a nuke, that’s our number one goal for our entire country,’ because, who is Trump’s best friend? Kim Jong-Il of North Korea,” she said.
Watching Iran get bombed for not having nuclear weapons is, she suggested, a fairly compelling advertisement for acquiring them.
She saved particular contempt for the war’s shifting objectives. “Now our sole objective is to open the Strait of Hormuz,” she said, “which was open before he started bombing the crap out of them.” The observation that the war’s current primary goal is to undo one of the war’s primary consequences did not appear to be lost on her, and she was not going to let it be lost on anyone else either.
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