Ann Coulter proposes racial purity for voters in pro-Trump tweet
Far-right pundit accused of invoking Nazi-era laws by suggesting GOP would win if children, grandchildren of migrants couldn’t vote
Far-right political pundit Ann Coulter sparked outrage on Election Day for appearing to invoke Nazi-era racial purity laws in a tweet lamenting Donald Trump’s meager support among America’s immigrant communities.
In a tweet, Coulter asserted the Republican candidate would easily win the presidential election if the children and grandchildren of immigrants were not permitted to vote.
“If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide,” the outspoken Trump supporter posted early Tuesday morning.
Social media users were quick to condemn Coulter’s remark as xenophobic, anti-Semitic and racist.
If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/emerging_enigma/status/795838286174556161
Shout out to Ann Coulter for getting in that last minute coded white supremacist rhetoric, right before the election https://t.co/BbLMvLbJiR
— Tariq Nasheed ???????? (@tariqnasheed) November 8, 2016
Taking Ann Coulter's suggestion to its logical conclusion would mean today's election would be straight Navajo v Cherokee face off #USA2016
— Prof Patrick McGhee (@ProfMcGhee) November 8, 2016
Others pointed out the irony in Coulter’s logic, saying that Trump’s own immigrant parents would preclude the GOP candidate and his children from voting.
Someone needs to whisper it to Ann Coulter that Trump's grandparents weren't born in America #awkward
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) November 8, 2016
Less than an hour later, Coulter attempted to walk back her remark, claiming she was referring to wider family ancestry.
There's 8 great grandparents, 16 great-great grandparents, etc. https://t.co/cygzl8oHdB
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 8, 2016
Coulter is no stranger to anti-Semitic controversy.
After Hillary Clinton won the Democratic Party’s nomination in July, Coulter tweeted: “Where are the Bernie supporters tonight? Did Hillary have them gassed?”
She was roundly criticized for the apparent Holocaust reference.
In May, Coulter was asked in an interview if her anti-immigration stance would have applied to Jewish immigrants to the US in the 20th century.
“Oh God, not the Jews again,” she responded to a BBC Radio 4 host.
During a Republican debate last September, Coulter tweeted “how many f***ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?” She later doubled down on the tweet, calling it “pro-Semitic.”
