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Titled Donald Trumps Demand for Love, Bruni said: I had just shaken the president-elects normal-size hand and he was moving on to the next person when he wheeled around, took a half step back, touched my arm and looked me in the eye anew. Im going to get you to write some good stuff about me, Donald Trump said.

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Bruni is a fabulous writer, but if he ever writes good stuff about you, Mr. President-elect, YOU WILL HAVE FAILED.

I assume this was just our president-elect doing something he gets the least credit for, which is being nice. But you can never be too careful.

The Times is in total opposition to Trumps stated goal to make America great again. Trump has got to know not next year, but by 5 p.m. today that anyone pursuing his agenda will incite rage, insanity and spitting blood from that newspaper.

Theres a long and tragic history of Republicans who won the war but lost the peace by trading results for respectability.

The first President Bush not only promised not to raise taxes, but also laid out the steps Democrats would take to get him to break that promise. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes, he said in his iconic 1988 convention speech, and Ill say no, and theyll push, and Ill say no, and theyll push again, and Ill say to them, Read my lips: No new taxes.

He was a good prognosticator! Congress did exactly as hed anticipated. But instead of saying no, Bush caved.

That betrayal cost the GOP its most popular issue. As the Times Michael Wines put it (shortly before Bush predictably lost his re-election bid), with the presidents sellout, Republicans gave up a political weapon so fearsome that it had destroyed three Democratic presidential candidates in 12 years.

The Times had spent months hectoring Bush about the yawning deficit, denouncing his obdurate refusal to raise taxes, and promising political popularity for the needed tax hike. But the moment Bush raised taxes, the Times couldnt stop crowing about his broken promise.

That was always the whole point. Not the yawning deficit. Not raising revenue. But to get the GOP to give up its most potent issue.

Trump has just annihilated 16 far more experienced Republican rivals, the Clinton machine and the entire media/Hollywood/Wall Street complex by raising the one issue no other politician would touch:putting Americas interests first on immigration.

What promise do you think they want Trump to break?

Luckily for the country,Trump doesnt seem obsessed with what the elites think of him. But his advisers include just the type of Republicans whose second-tier law schools make them particularly susceptible to the cheap respectability of establishment media approval.

Trump has been a politician for only a little more than one year. He has no experience with the tricks that will be played to get him to betray voters on his signature issue. The first president Bush knew what was coming and he still broke his promise.

Manifestly, if anyone in Washington seriously wanted to build a wall, deport illegals, return criminal aliens to their own countries, end the anchor baby scam and prevent jihadists from immigrating here to kill Americans, it would have been done already.

Nearly every promise Trump made on immigration is 100 percent within the power of the president. For example:

It is already the presidents job, as commander in chief, to protect the borders.

It is already the Department of Defenses job to build border walls.

Its already the law that citizenship is not acquired by being born on U.S. soil to an illegal alien. (No Congress has ever passed such a law,nor has the Supreme Court ruledthat they are.)

It is already the secretary of states duty to rescind visas from countries that refuse to take their criminals back.

It is already the presidents job to prohibit the entry of any class of immigrants he deems detrimental to the interests of the United States.

It is already the presidents job to remove immigrants who commit crimes, entered our country through fraud (i.e., every single refugee), are in the country illegally or who become public charges.

None of those things have ever been done before for one reason: The entire Washington establishment isunalterably opposed to enforcing our immigration laws.

Trump will have no trouble enacting the rest of his agenda. If congressional Republicans are good for anything, it is to repeal Obamacare, cut taxes and regulation, confirm good judges and protect the Second Amendment. No one but Trump would have done it, but not even Nancy Pelosi is going to attack Trump for keeping jobs in America.

Only when it comes to immigration will Trump be Gary Cooper, out there alone against every powerful entity in America. Just as he wasduring the campaign.

On immigration, Trump will be furiously opposed by: Democrats, Republicans, the permanent bureaucracy, the Chamber of Commerce, George Soros, The Wall Street Journal in fact, the entire media, except four webpages, six bloggers and five talk-radio hosts and hundreds of taxpayer-funded immigrant grievance groups. And thats just off the top of my head.

Hell even be opposed by his own hand-picked U.N. ambassador! (It is an amazing fact that at the 2016 State of the Union, both the Democratic presidents address, and the Republican governors response, attacked candidate Trumps immigration proposals.)

Theres a reason millions of Americans were showing up at Trumps rallies chanting, Build the Wall! and not, End Obamacare! Cut taxes! Save the Second Amendment! or any other slogan that could have been chanted just as easily at a Jeb! Rally.

There are only a handful of people in the entire country with the knowledge and ability to enforce our immigration laws. Any Cabinet appointees likely to impress The New York Times arent going to get it done. They wont have to expressly defy Trump. They just wont do it.

Perhaps theyll make some showy effort at deporting illegals and then back down at the first La Raza lawsuit. Or they will allow career government lawyers to submit briefs in court that cite all the wrong cases. Or theyll wait for Speaker Paul Ryans approval to do anything. Or theyll be moved by a Nikki Haley speech about the vibrant diversity of Somali refugees. Or theyll be scared off by Washington bureaucrats who say,You cant do that!

But if Trump chooses from among the few people who know how to get it done (Kris Kobach, Kris Kobach or Kris Kobach), his promises will be kept. He can relax. He can spend all his time playing golf, living in Trump Tower, yelling at American CEOs trying to outsource jobs and engaging in appalling conflicts of interest with his businesses.

He could even shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. (I propose GOP consultant Rick Wilson!)

Trump is down to his last wish from Aladdin. He can impress The New York Times, or he can make America great again. But he cant do both.

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Ann Coulter: How the Establishment Will Try to Destroy Trump