The story about Elijah Cummings's district that Trump isn't interested in telling

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President Trump’s sweeping disparagement of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District over the weekend was obviously not informed by the district’s actual dynamics. Trump apparently saw a segment on Fux Noise in which a Republican activist shared videos of run-down houses in a district represented by a fierce critic of the president, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.). With a flick of his magic Twitter wand, Trump declared the district to be so toxic as to be uninhabitable.

“No human being would want to live there,” he wrote on Twitter, a wholesale denigration of the people who do live there — people who, in Trump’s eyes, either don’t want to live there or aren’t human. Trump was focused on the portion of Baltimore that Cummings represents (the dark-blue cluster in the district), almost certainly without recognizing that the district also stretches out into the suburbs and includes no fewer than 64,926 people who voted for Trump in 2016.

Cummings’s district is “considered the Worst in the USA,” according to the president’s random attack, and is “the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.” It’s a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” Trump went on, and “very dangerous & filthy."

Again, Trump was responding to a few videos shared by a Republican who lives in Baltimore, but it took very little for him to extrapolate: It’s Baltimore, so it’s poor, dangerous and dirty — which is precisely the context in which Trump has always referred to the city.

The thing is, though: Cummings’s district isn’t that poor. Compared with the other 434 congressional districts, the 7th District is in the 61st percentile on median household income. White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s old district, South Carolina’s 5th District, is in the 22nd percentile for income, despite Mulvaney disparaging Cummings’s district on Sunday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-story-about-elijah-cummingss-district-that-trump-isnt-interested-in-telling/ar-AAF1F4t?li=BBnb7Kz

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. I don't recall ANY president being so openly critical

of a congressional district. After all, like it or not, Trump is president for every district in every state in the nation.

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2. I remember right after he was "elected" he said something

about how the places that voted for him were going to “have it really good,” or some such. He was openly saying that his voters were going to be rewarded and the people who didn’t were going to be harmed. He has never once seen himself as the President of the entire country. That is a concept he could never understand.