Her reply was surprising: She didn't think any of them would get the nomination. A self-promoting New York real estate developer, however, had announced his candidacy three days before, appearing in a Manhattan office building he pretended to own, making a few off-the-cuff-sounding remarks about Mexican immigration and how great America could be, and eliciting the unanimous ridicule of the press corps. Coulter stonily spoke his name. Her fellow panelists seemed to think she was cracking a joke. They twisted their faces into histrionic expressions of puzzlement to play along. The studio audience roared with laughter.
- From The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
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