An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 Copyright © 2016 Ann Coulter Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. eBook ISBN 9780735214477 Names: Coulter, Ann H., author. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING—IN-PUBLICATION DATA Title: In Trump We Trust / Ann Coulter. Description: New York, New York: Sentinel, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016030187 | ISBN 9780735214460 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Trump, Donald, 1946 — | Trump, Donald, 1946—Political and social views. | Presidential candidates—United States— Biography. | Presidents—United States—Election—2016. | Republican Party (U.S. 1854—) | United States—Politics and government—2009- | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties. Classification: LCC E901.1.T78 C68 2016 | DDC 973.932092 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016030187 While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and other contact information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content. Version_1 To: Mickey Kaus ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I didn’t have time to force as many friends as I’d like to read any portion this book, but I did trick some into reading a few chapters and I thank them deeply: Ned Rice, Rodney Conover, Trish Baker, Kevin Harrington, Mickey Kaus, Jon Tukel, and Jim Moody. And thank you to my agent Mel Berger and my publisher Adrian Zackheim for agreeing to this lightning speed project, and everyone at Penguin Random House who worked so hard to produce a book— and audio!—in record time: Eric Nelson, Jessica Kaye, Will Weisser, Tara Gilbride, Vivian Roberson, Victoria Miller, and Tess Espinoza. Contents Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments CHAPTER ONE Trump: The Great Orange Hope CHAPTER TWO The Reality TV Star We’ve Been Waiting For! CHAPTER THREE First Principle of the GOP: “Who Asked You?” CHAPTER FOUR Political Consultants’ Three-Card Monte CHAPTER FIVE I Don’t Care What They Say, I Won’t Stay in a World Without Trump CHAPTER SIX You’re Not Reagan CHAPTER SEVEN No Policy Specifics! CHAPTER EIGHT Trump Hits Back CHAPTER NINE Disabled Reporter Joins Media Effort to Create More Disabled Americans CHAPTER TEN Islam’s PR Agency: The American Media CHAPTER ELEVEN Now We Know Why They Don’t Want to Talk about Muslim Immigration CHAPTER TWELVE So Close! The Plan to Destroy America Was Almost Complete CHAPTER THIRTEEN Trump Builds Wall, Makes GOP Pay for It CHAPTER FOURTEEN The New Trumpian Party! Appendix: Geniuses Notes CHAPTER ONE Trump: The Great Orange Hope Until June 16, 2015, every conservative felt four things: 1. We’re losing. 2. The fight wasn’t fair—it was over before it began, and the rules were rigged. 3. Our allies have abandoned us. 4. This loss is permanent. We’re not getting it back. Plug in any issue and it works: abortion, gay marriage, transgender bathrooms, immigration, trade, Press 1 for English, drug legalization, criminal law, the Iraq War, and on and on. By 2012, Obama’s 2008 position on gay marriage, as “the union between a man and a woman,”1 had become the vicious Klan position, a transformation unparalleled in the physical universe. Fifty years ago, American traitor Bradley Manning would have been executed within a week. Instead, taxpayers are footing the bill for his sexual reassignment surgery. In the 2008 presidential race, every single Democrat but one opposed driver’s licenses for illegal aliens2—Hillary, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Joe Biden. By 2012 illegal aliens could get a driver’s license in forty-nine states, as a result of Obama’s “executive amnesty.” The only holdout was Nebraska— and the ACLU was suing Nebraska. The mayor of Los Angeles brags that more than two hundred languages are spoken in his city.3 A majority of the residents speak a language other than English at home.4 Fifty years ago, even Democrats would have said that’s insane. Today, Republicans are afraid to criticize it.5 In 2012, the most attractive candidate Republicans had run for president in three decades lost in a blowout defeat to President Obama, a feckless incumbent who wrecked health care and whose foreign policies had resulted in Islamic lunatics murdering the American ambassador in Benghazi less than two months before the election. There was no way to minimize what a disaster Mitt Romney’s loss was. Looking ahead to possible 2016 presidential candidates, it was gun-to-the-mouth time. It’s just been wave after wave hitting the bow. Americans were huddled on the battleship Missouri, having surrendered everything they believe in, hoping it would all go away. Is it really any wonder that when a space capsule crashed to earth and Donald J. Trump stepped out, he was given a warm welcome? Trump is the first hope Americans have had in a very long time that it may not be over yet. Perhaps the country isn’t finished. Maybe we could begin to reverse our losses. And then, many years from now, when we have our country back, we will join the little girls in pink party dresses and be appalled by a presidential candidate who calls Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pig” and sends out juvenile tweets at midnight. But not yet, not until Trump ends the orderly transition of America from the greatest nation in history into some pathetic, third-rate, also-ran, multicultural mess. Until the bleeding has stopped, there’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven. Except change his immigration policies. Even liberals know that Trump is the only impediment to their destruction of America. In May 2016, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet let out a war whoop to his fellow liberals, proclaiming total victory. “The culture wars,” he said, “are over; they lost, we won.” With conservatives standing there, asking the burglar if we could keep our underwear, Tushnet said the left should be merciless, citing LGBT activists as exemplars of the “hard-line approach.” He reminded liberals that Justice Anthony Kennedy was irrelevant now that Justice Antonin Scalia was dead, saying: “fuck Anthony Kennedy.” Finally, he proposed that liberals draw up a list of Supreme Court decisions targeted for reversal. (Topping Hillary’s list is District of Columbia v. Heller, which would effectively repeal the Second Amendment.) But at the end of the piece, Tushnet concluded: “Of course all bets are off if Donald Trump becomes President.”6