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kpete

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:22 AM Jul 2019

Baltimore mayor blasts 'childish' Trump on CNN: 'Our country is in turmoil under his leadership'

Baltimore mayor blasts ‘childish’ Trump in CNN scolding: ‘Our country is in turmoil under his leadership’

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In a phone interview with CNN’s John Berman on Monday, Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young tore into Trump for attacking his city.

“I would like to tell him, stop tweeting,” said Young. “No president in modern history of the office of the president has done any childish behavior like this president has exhibited. If he really wants to, he needs to send us federal assistance, not only to Baltimore but cities around this country, that are in the same situation that Baltimore is in.”


“He’s the most powerful man on the face of the Earth as president of the United States of America,” added Young. “This is below a president to do these kind of things. He should be uniting this country instead of racially dividing us. A president has never in my lifetime exhibited this type of behavior. He’s alienated our allies around the country. What else is he going to do?”


“The president claims he’s talking about the conditions in the city of Baltimore,” said Berman. “Let me ask you, you’ve been mayor of the city since May, has he reached out to you once since you’ve been mayor to talk about conditions?”


“No, he has never reached out,” said Young. “He had a pledge, that he was going to do infrastructure. We’re still waiting on that. We have an aging infrastructure in the city of Baltimore for unfunded mandate by the EPA for us to correct it, and we have to constantly raise water rates on the poor people of the city of Baltimore. We’re a poor city. Do we have, you know, problems? Yeah. We have problems with crime and everything else, just like any other major city, just like the city that his person — Mitch McConnell — represents has these problems.”


“Do you think these attacks are even really about your city, or about something else?” Berman pressed him.


“I think it’s about dividing this country,” said Young. “If you look, he attacked four minority women and didn’t even do the research to find out three were born here and one is a naturalized citizen now. Then he attacked one of the most powerful congressmen in the country, Elijah Cummings, who represented Baltimore as well. He has a pattern of attacking people of color. If you want to help us, help us. Don’t talk about us. Send the resources that we need to rebuild America. He’s talking about he wants to make America great again, put the money in the cities that need it the most. That’s where you can make America great again. What he’s doing is, he’s making America the laughingstock of the world … Our country is in turmoil under his leadership.”



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Baltimore mayor blasts 'childish' Trump on CNN: 'Our country is in turmoil under his leadership' (Original Post) kpete Jul 2019 OP
The best I can say of him is "President Asshole!" ... appropriate name. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2019 #1
"I would like to tell him. . ." DinahMoeHum Jul 2019 #2
That drawing needs a rope of spit flying out of Trump's mouth lunatica Jul 2019 #4
I am appalled at the level of immaturity Sinistrous Jul 2019 #3

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. That drawing needs a rope of spit flying out of Trump's mouth
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 11:03 AM
Jul 2019

to show what a slobbering asshole he is.

Sinistrous

(4,249 posts)
3. I am appalled at the level of immaturity
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:58 AM
Jul 2019

demonstrated by IQ45 by this latest spate of tit for tat spews on Twitter. Ye gads. I swear they would embarrass Peewee Herman at his most inane.

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