Ann Coulter’s most controversial moments of all time (so far)
Ann Coulter speaks onstage during Politicon 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center (Getty)
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has deleted a social media post mocking Governor Tim Walz’s son after receiving strong backlash.
The post came after Walz’s son Gus was filmed at the Democratic National Convention earlier this week crying with pride as his father accepted his party’s nomination for vice president and shouted, “That’s my dad.”
Coulter published a newspaper article about the moment, along with a photo of himself crying and the caption: “Speaking of weird…”
It appears that Coulter was referring to Walz’s earlier description of Republicans, and Donald Trump in particular, as “weird people.”
Criticism of Coulter increased when people pointed out that Gus was neurodivergent. Walz had previously told People Magazine that he had “a nonverbal learning disorder in addition to anxiety and ADHD.”
A former Obama administration official commented on Coulter’s post, saying, “I can understand why it seems strange to you that a child loves his parents.”
Shannon Watts, who founded two gun safety groups, responded to Coulter: “I am neurodivergent. We are not weird, we are wonderful. And we are your family, friends and fellow Americans.”
A former Republican strategist, Rick Wilson, also commented on the controversy, saying, “Ann Coulter will die alone, and medical examiners will discover that her withered corpse is nothing more than Marlboro red wine and wine from a carton.”
The strong reactions seem to have prompted Coulter to remove the post.
Other controversies surrounding Ann Coulter
This is far from the first time Coulter has been embroiled in controversy or faced significant backlash for her comments.
As early as 2007, she was accused of anti-Semitism when she said that the United States was a Christian nation and that she wanted to “perfect” the Jews by converting them to Christianity.
Her comments were condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the National Jewish Democratic Council.
Coulter also tweeted comments in 2015 that the Anti-Defamation League called “ugly, vitriolic and anti-Semitic.” The comment followed a Republican presidential primary debate in which several candidates made multiple references to Israel throughout the evening.
She said, “How many damn Jews do these people think there are in the United States?”
After the anti-Semitism accusation, she tweeted: “I like Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. I didn’t have to listen to them being applauded all night.”
Coulter was accused of plagiarism
Coulter was also accused of plagiarism after her 1998 book was published High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton when columnist Michael Chapman claimed that several passages in her book were taken from a supplement he had written for the magazine Human Events in 1997.
She was later accused of plagiarism for her book. Godless It was also discovered that several sections came from a Planned Parenthood brochure and a 1999 Portland Press article.
The editor of GodlessCrown Publishing Group, rejected the allegations in a statement and said it had investigated the “allegations of plagiarism” in her book and “found them to be as trivial and baseless as they are irresponsible.”
Coulter came under fire for a “xenophobic” tirade against Republican Nikki Haley
In 2023, when former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley entered the presidential race, Coulter made several offensive remarks about Haley.
During an appearance on the Mark Simone Show, Coulter asked Haley, “Why don’t you go back to your own country?”
Haley was born in the USA to Indian immigrants.
Coulter then made disparaging remarks about India as a whole, saying, “Your candidacy reminded me that I need to emigrate to India so I can demand that they start erasing parts of their history. What is this cow worship? They all starve there. Did you know they have a rat temple where they worship rats?”
Coulter also called Haley a “fool” and an “absurd creature” and criticized her for advocating for the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state Capitol following the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
“This is my land, lady. I’m not an Indian and I don’t like them tearing down all the monuments,” she said.
Coulter made similar remarks to another Republican presidential candidate in 2023.
Coulter said an exchange between Haley and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was a “Hindu affair.”
In addition, during an appearance on his podcast, Coulter said that she would not vote for Ramaswamy because he is Indian.
She said: “There is a core national identity, which is the WASP identity. That does not mean that we cannot accept anyone else, a Sri Lankan, a Japanese or an Indian. But the core around which the values of the nation are formed is the WASP.”
