News Limbaugh, Coulter and friends bullied Trump into shutdown. Don’t trash him for ending it. January 26, 2019 Scott Douglas Gerber, Opinion contributor Comments Off on Limbaugh, Coulter and friends bullied Trump into shutdown. Don’t trash him for ending it. Commentators have a First Amendment right to criticize the president. But he has an Article 2 responsibility to make sure the government is functioning.