Trump Complained About Baltimore Years Ago But Blamed The 'African American President'
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Trump Complained About Baltimore Years Ago But Blamed The ‘African American President’
Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a Maryland congressman since 1996, but back in 2015, Trump claimed the man in the White House was responsible for issues in the city.
By Mary Papenfuss
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-african-american-obama-baltimore-responsibility_n_5d3e1f0ae4b0ef792e0e3328
Donald Trump pummeled Baltimore years ago in a series of tweets — but back then he held Barack Obama responsible for the city’s crime, pointing out that he was an “African American president” and sarcastically referring to him as “great.”
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Now, suddenly, Trump no longer considers Baltimore the responsibility of the man in the White House. Rather, he’s put blame on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), whom Trump bizarrely blasted as a “racist” Sunday, for what the president called his “rodent-infested mess” of a district where “no human being would want to live.”
It was a different target, but another African American, four years ago:
Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2015
President Obama, you have a big job to do. Go to Baltimore and bring both sides together. With proper leadership, it can be done! Do it.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2015
“@Vanderpunked: Can we drop @realDonaldTrump off in the middle of #Baltimore so he can show Obama how it’s done?” I would fix it fast!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2015
Trump’s critics on Twitter are most captivated now by 2015 Trump’s vision of himself as a great white savior ready to be airlifted into Baltimore to save the day.
When are YOU going to Baltimore, oh great white one???
Let’s see you fix this up with your great leadership qualities
Hurry up, the world is waiting#ImpeachTrump
— becky trenor (@yurkiddingme) July 28, 2019
but 280 day golfin take a toll
— Hotzn (@hotzn1) July 28, 2019
Oh, @realDonaldTrump, if we drop you off in the middle of #Baltimore will you be able to find your way out?🤣
— Leonard Grossman (@modemjunkie) July 28, 2019
You should go to Baltimore. You could stay at one of Jared Kushner’s properties—the ones with hundreds of violations!
— Robin Littlefield (@therealrkl) July 28, 2019
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But Trump has also indicated that he’s furious the House Oversight and Reform Committee, headed by Cummings, voted Thursday to authorize a subpoena for all work-related texts and emails sent and received on personal accounts by his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Both Ivanka Trump and Kushner have admitted to using personal accounts for work messages.
The president has repeatedly slammed Hillary Clinton for using a personal server for work-related emails when she was secretary of state, which triggered Trump-encouraged chants of “lock her up” at his 2016 campaign rallies. Trump on Saturday accused Cummings in a tweet of now spending “all of his time trying to hurt innocent people through ‘Oversight.’”
