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Baltimore Sun Editorial Board rains holy hell down on Trump in epic editorial
Baltimore Sun rains holy hell down on Trump in epic editorial
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/baltimore-sun-rains-holy-hell-down-on-trump-in-epic-editorial/
Published 10 hours ago
on July 27, 2019
By Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump began his Saturday attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The citys newspaper The Baltimore Sun unleashed on Trump for the racist attacks implying the residents were vermin or trash.
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Why Trump lashed out at Baltimore and Cummings gets lost in the shock of the racism. Perhaps its by design. He was illustrating how his migrant camps were better than some places in America. They are not, the Sun wrote.
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In pointing to the 7th, the president wasnt hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nations leading medical center, the editorial continued. He wasnt conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasnt about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasnt about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average.
Instead, Trump was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority-black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments.
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This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation. And given Mr. Cummings criticisms of U.S. border policy, the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that Fox & Friends had recently aired a segment critical of the city, slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way, the Sun explained. Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated, and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.
The editorial explained that it was heartening to see the uprising online defending the city. But, ultimately, its the White House who has the most power to affect change in the city, for good or bad. The administration has far more power than even Cummings.
If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyones, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land, the editorial said.
They promised they wouldnt sink to name-calling the way Trump would do, or even point out that he cant spell or doesnt know how to spell Cummings name correctly.
What they did want to do, is tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of womens private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are good people among murderous neo-Nazis that hes still not fooling most Americans into believing hes even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
Read the full editorial at The Baltimore Sun.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0728-trump-baltimore-20190727-k6ac4yvnpvcczlaexdfglifada-story.html
Better to have a few rats than to be one
By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board
Baltimore Sun |
Jul 27, 2019 | 6:36 PM
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Baltimore Sun Editorial Board rains holy hell down on Trump in epic editorial (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2019
OP
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)1. Better to have a few rats than to be one.
SNAP.....well said.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)2. Wwwwooowwww! That's powerful stuff! Good on them!
Is there an applause emoji?
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)3. Great article.
I love visiting Baltimore! Its a wonderful city.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)4. Bumper sticker idea - "D-Con Don in 2020"
Get rid of this big fat rat.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)5. Piece of trash is unfit to work at 7-Eleven
like Obama said.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)6. Wow! That's heavy indeed! Accurate to a fault. And so, so true!
Hope media across the country, no, the globe, pick this up!