Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images . The latest installment involves claims that Representative Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, comes from a district that is a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore,” charged the president, apparently failing to recognize the difference between serving in federal and municipal government, “maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.
Yet these impulsive thumb-rants amount to some of the most important and revealing communications of Trump’s presidency. For one thing, they convey the beliefs that have undergirded his career. As Victor Blackwell points out, Trump reserves terms like “infest” and “infestation” — which most people use only to describe diseases or vermin — exclusively for nonwhites.
Trump has brought these patterns of thought with him to the presidency. One of the many oddities of his term in office is that he never observed the traditional break between campaigning and governing, and as a result never adopted even the pose of representing the entire country.
You are calling out Tlaib, Ocasio, and Omar too, or is bigotry ok? NY mag such hypocrites. Would it be ok to compare detention centers to slave quarters, of course not that would be historically wrong and insensitive. So why would it be ok to call refugeecamps concentrationcamps?
How not why, we all know why.
He is a racist. Just say it.
The overall crime rate in West Baltimore is 342% higher than the national average. For every 100,000 people, there are 33.24 daily crimes that occur in West Baltimore. Gosh those facts are racist.
Lets see; because that's what racist do.
What about the Democratic house members who are racist and they are there. So get over yourselfs two faced hypocrites
larryfd
Well ...
Calling Baltimore a crime infested mess is an understatement not an offensive slander.
Because...wait for it.....he’s racist.
That’s the way spoiled rotten children act...
myecoll Racist slander
Corrupted supreme court just allowed the wall to be built by stealing military funds and then he pulls this? Trying to distract from the obvious corruption of SCOTUS? Well you dolts in the mainstream media sure took the bait again didn't you?
Are you sure?
Wouldn’t that be libel