'I don’t think Trump will be the nominee': Ann Coulter calls Trump 'a gigantic baby,' says he 'can barely speak English'

 Conservative commentator Ann Coulter does not expect former President Donald Trump to become the GOP's 2024 presidential nominee.

"I don't think Trump will be the nominee, but you'd really do the country a solid if you could get Democrats to stop indicting him," Coulter said, according to the New York Times. The outlet reported that contributing opinion writer Frank Bruni had hosted an online discussion with Coulter and former Republican political consultant Stuart Stevens. 

Coulter's prediction runs counter to current polling, which shows Trump trouncing the rest of the GOP presidential primary pack, apparently on course to clinch the Republican nomination for the third time.

Bruni pressed the issue, asking Coulter to explain her view.

"Trump can barely speak English. He's a gigantic baby. The only reason he crushed in 2016 is because of immigration — the wall, deport illegal immigrants, the travel ban (which imposed limits on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries). That is DeSantis this time — without the total lack of interest in carrying it out," Coulter said, according to the outlet. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been trailing Trump in a distant second place. 

Coulter offered high praise for DeSantis, asserting that he "is head and shoulders above every other G.O.P. presidential candidate (or politician) on the three most important issues: immigration, crime and the Covid response. Unless the prime minister of Sweden is running in this race, no one beats DeSantis on the Covid response. That's the 3 a.m. phone call — every state and world leader faced the exact same unseen-before virus. Only those two got it exactly right." 

Coulter indicated that she expects Trump to lose the general election if he becomes the GOP nominee.

"If Trump gets the nomination, I say he will lose. I know it, you know it, the American people know it (to paraphrase Bob Dole)," Coulter communicated, according to the outlet. "I think Trump loses, but who knows? He's not the Trump he was in 2016 — it's the same old thing over and over and over again. 'Shifty Schiff,' 'perfect phone call,' 'we won BIG,' strong, strongly, strong — zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

The first GOP presidential primary debate will take place Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but Trump has opted to skip the event. Tucker Carlson will be posting an interview of Trump to the social media platform X on Wednesday night. That interview has been pre-recorded, according to reports.