Source: Fox News
‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz weighs in on some conservative media and Trump’s base becoming angry over the president’s decision to pull American troops out of Syria as well as his decision to back off on border wall funding.
In the space of 48 hours, President Trump has got some of his conservative supporters pretty riled up.
His tentative decision to punt for now on funding for the border wall — the Senate passed a kick-the-can stopgap measure on Wednesday — triggered a backlash on the right that threatened to blow up the deal yesterday.
“It’s what the drive-by media calls compromise,” Rush Limbaugh declared. “Trump gets nothing and the Democrats get everything, including control of the House in a few short weeks.”
Ann Coulter, a fierce supporter of a tougher approach to immigration, told The Daily Caller that without the wall Trump’s tenure was a “joke presidency who scammed the American people.” She said she wouldn’t be voting for Trump again because the only reason was for Jared and Ivanka to make more money.
In breaking Twitter news, @realDonaldTrump promptly unfollowed her.
Then the president stunned many of his own aides, congressional supporters and overseas allies by announcing that the U.S. is pulling its troops out of Syria.
On his favorite show, “Fox & Friends,” co-host Brian Kilmeade called the decision “stunning and irresponsible … Nobody thinks that ISIS is defeated. Nobody who understands who was born after 2000 who sees what’s happened after 9/11, understands.”
On the Hill, Lindsey Graham, usually Trump’s closest ally, denounced the decision, calling it a “stain” on America’s honor, and saying Republicans would be going “nuts” if Barack Obama had done this.
Some were going nuts anyway.
And in a coda to the day, the president announced that Jim Mattis, who opposed the Syria pullout, is retiring. While several outlets say the Pentagon chief quit in protest, my own reporting is that Trump forced him out.
Both episodes marked a rare revolt by Trump’s base, underscoring how the president is sometimes squeezed between his conservative campaign promises and the realities of…
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