In case you missed it, The Baltimore Sun responded to Trump’s tweets from yesterday that attacked African American Congressman Elijah Cummings for conducting Constitutionally-required oversight of the executive branch and described Baltimore as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
A “very dangerous & filthy place.”
A place where no human being would ever want to live.
Naturally, the residents of Baltimore did not take kindly to Trump’s descriptions of their home, nor did the Baltimore Sun’s editorial board.
The Sun’s full response is terrific, but it’s the last paragraph that I find extraordinary.
They write:
“Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s 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 he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s 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.”
