This morning President Trump took aim at Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings for his Captain Ahab-like monomania about persecuting Trump while most of his district compares unfavorably with random cities in Syria in terms of services and safety.
….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019
Since then the usual suspects have pounced and seized upon this as racism. CNN had some guy I’d never heard of before today, this Victor Blackwell fellow, put on quite a show of weeping and blowing snot while lying his ass off about what was said and the clear…at least to native English speakers…meaning.
President Trump tweeted that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district is a “rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”
It’s @VictorBlackwell’s home district.
“When he tweets about infestation, it's about black and brown people,” Blackwell says. pic.twitter.com/YFCvPCFhFk
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) July 27, 2019
Saying an area is insect and rodent infested does not mean the people are rodents and insects, it means that the place is infested with rodents and insects. In the West Baltimore area represented by Cummings for some three decades, that is objectively true.
I’m sure @VictorBlackwell will apologize to @realDonaldTrump for reiterating President Obama’s concerns for Baltimore. And, I’m sure @RepCummings & @SpeakerPelosi will finally address failed Democrat policies that have destroyed the inner cities. https://t.co/uHxkGpeEh6
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) July 27, 2019
C’mon, Victor, man up, stop sniveling, show a little pride, and, as the man said, let him who has eyes, see.
West Baltimore is a paradise. Your eyes are just racist. pic.twitter.com/E2YZLafd1N
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/Ravagiing/status/1155213222707912704
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1155175284485656576
Trump is being called a Liar & Racist for saying West Baltimore is poorly ran by Democrats.
Well here is a video of West Baltimore and according to Democrats this is beautiful site. They like to see black people living in filth.
pic.twitter.com/rzkbbPQj8R— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) July 27, 2019
Water Infrastructure in America is horrible. People at Poe Homes in west #Baltimore are filling up pots and other containers with water at a fire hydrant.
Residents have been without water for four days. #SaveFlintChallenge @FOXBaltimore pic.twitter.com/6PYj3E9vhi
— Big Boss (@escapedmatrix) June 22, 2019
And Trump is right, people don’t want to live there but they are forced to live there by circumstances. West Baltimore is losing population and the only way poverty pimps like Cummings can stay in power is to convince hapless people that he would help them if The Man wasn’t keeping him down. Cummings, just like the Palestinian authority, has no interests in the well being of his constituents because his only hold on them is as a dispenser of largess and a voice for their grievances.
Trump is not the only melanin-challenged politician to notice this. In the last presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders visited West Baltimore.
“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders told reporters later at the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center in Bolton Hill. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.”
You may not like what Trump said. You may think he’s a mean, mean man.
— streiff (@streiffredstate) July 27, 2019
But, objectively, the West Baltimore part of Cummings’s district is a disgrace. It is extraordinarily violent. This happened in a good area of Cummings’s district on Wednesday:
NEW: #WJZ obtains video of Baltimore City Police civilian employee being beaten on Albermarle Street. He gets stomped in the head. The story tonight 4,5, 6 on #WJZ @wjz pic.twitter.com/H8YieJubIZ
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) July 25, 2019
And this classic
#WeAreBaltimore, where even the the Deputy Police Commissioner can be a victim of armed robbery https://t.co/rTksnjn806
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) July 27, 2019
And it is filled with despair. People are voting with their feet, hence the boarded up buildings.
The outrage should be directed at the conditions American citizens have to endure and the immensely corrupt and deeply inbred political system that created it. Not at President Trump for pointing it out.
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