Posted on 07/27/2019 2:26:22 PM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON President Trump lashed out at a leading African-American congressman on Saturday, calling him a brutal bully who represents a Baltimore-based district that has become a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess where no human being would want to live.
Mr. Trumps attack on Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland and leading critic of the president, parroted a segment that aired earlier in the morning on Fox & Friends. The president suggested that the congressman was a hypocrite for criticizing conditions in migrant detention centers at the southwestern border when his own district is blighted. Mr. Trump also made a vague and unsubstantiated insinuation of corruption.
Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous, Mr. Trump wrote. His district is considered the Worst in the USA. He went on: 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.
Mr. Cummings responded on Twitter shortly afterward, saying that he was a vigorous advocate for his district. Mr. President, I go home to my district daily, he wrote. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.
The congressman pointed to a hearing that he held on Friday on his effort to legislate lower drug prices, which would help his Baltimore constituents.
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It would be more persuasive if Trump refuted specific false statements of Cummings.
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Actions speak louder than words. Cummings is a hypocrite. He points his finger at a man who works tirelessly and without pay to improve the living conditions in this country while cummings turns a blind eye at the filth in his own house, and gets paid a pretty penny in the process.
I personally am glad the President speaks plain English rather than pretending to be something he isn’t, like cummings does. Cummings is a pretentious, pompus ass.
Every city run by the Regressive Socialist ‘RATS is, by definition, a “sh!thole.”
What is needed is an official: Time elapsed since since CNN called Trump a “Racist” countdown clock.
No need to track years or months: tracking hours, minutes, seconds. will probably suffice.
Since the President took office I doubt they have ever gone twenty four hours without screaming RACIST!
What is needed is an official: Time elapsed since since CNN called Trump a “Racist” countdown clock.
No need to track years or months: tracking hours, minutes, seconds. will probably suffice.
Since the President took office I doubt they have ever gone twenty four hours without screaming RACIST!
The last time they attacked for a week screaming racist his numbers went up. Trump knows what he is doing.
You are a clown. A Bill Kristol wannabe, and a snide, condescending arrogant clown. You are so devastated that you were wrong about the election and that your PIAPS lost to the President. Like Bill Kristol and the rest of the neocons, all you can do is talk about unpresidential statements in Twitter.
What the President said is absolutely true, no one had had the guts to say it before.
Im thrilled that he calls things like he sees them.
You arent any holier than anyone else, and your hatred for the President has caused you to fall deeper and deeper into derangement.
Trump is rightly angry about the dreadful condition Democrats have allowed poor Americans (many of whom are black) to live in. The Rat party doesnt give a sh*t about anyone, they only care about their votes.
Trump is a man of true courage and decency - he wants to improve the lot of every American ! Trump is a man of the Divine
Damn now President Trump will lose the votes in that district lol
“I don’t think most Americans want the President to sound like this.”
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Are you saying “We’re above all that” and “It’s not who we are”?
Thank you for weighing in, Paul Ryan.
Long May It Reign!
Well said! Post of the day!
I thought I dont need to say it. But I want to. Mr President, I like you and I like what you are doing
MAGA.
I don’t think most Americans want the President to sound like this. Whether conditions at migrant detention centers are humane is independent of whether Baltimore is a nice place to live.
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I think that most Americans do want him to sound like this if for no other reason than to make politician culpable for their shortcomings...and Elijah Cummings has many of them. The kind of American you’re advocating for is a milquetoast one where no one is supposed to get angry at the neglect and pandering of our politicians.
Jenna Bush weighed in. Like she really has any idea what kind of condition s her students go home to at night. Her response was just stupid. He wasnt referring to the people but the conditions in which they live.
This American does.
President Trump is calling badly needed attention to what liberal run towns look like, decay and despair.
I applaud the President for telling the truth.
It would have been nice if that had been a two way street. It hasn't since 1968, and it has been all completely one-sided with disgusting vitriol from the Left aimed at non-Democrat Presidents.
Nothing made me angrier that watching them just sit and take it, while that same venom was NEVER directed at Democrat Presidents.
This is fine.
I want someone who fights back, not a pussy who takes it up the tail pipe with no protest because it is "unpresidential".
WE DID NOT DO THIS. THEY DID THIS. THEY MADE THESE RULES AND NOW THEY WHINE LIKE PUSSIES WHEN SOMEONE FIGHTS BACK AND PUNCHES THEM IN THE NOSE LIKE THEY DESERVE.
Yep. Exactly.
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