Baltimore Mayor Bernard Young isn’t here to entertain President Trump’s attacks over the weekend against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and his majority-black district, which includes the city.
When pressed on his response to Trump’s angry tweets, Young urged the President to stop tweeting on MSNBC Monday morning.
“My message to the President is, stop tweeting and send federal help and resources to the city of Baltimore,” Young said. “Not just to the city of Baltimore. To urban cities around the country, that are having problems with aging infrastructure, with crime, and grime, and reduction in resources from the federal government.”
Young then went into detail on the infrastructure problems plaguing Baltimore.
“We have an unfunded EPA mandate to fix our aging infrastructure, which causes us to raise water rates on our vulnerable, poor people in the city of Baltimore,” Young said. “Stop tweeting and send us the help that we need.”
Young said that Trump has yet to respond to the city’s issues with actual proposals for a federal solution.
“None. Not one. I have not heard from the President,” Young said. “Normally when a new mayor comes into office whether through a mayor resigning or whatever they get a letter from the President congratulating him and offering to meet with them and find out their priorities. I haven’t received anything and he is right down the road.”
Watch Young respond to Trump’s angry tweets below:
Baltimore mayor Bernard Young responds to Trump's attacks against the city. pic.twitter.com/djVIyK9Q8e
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Donnie’s hurls abuse while hiding behind his Twitter account. In person, he is a shriveling piece of overcooked linguini. He is not a President in any way, he is a coward and a phony in every way.
I think you’re underselling his assets.
The Baltimore episode really has driven home, more than most things, the fact that Trump does not understand or does not care that he is ostensibly President of the United States, not President of the Deplorable Base. The President traditionally does not do things like point and mock and say “ha ha, that part of America sucks!” At least not out loud. To the extent he recognizes there are sucky parts, he’s supposed to work to make them better.
Classy…how a REAL politician ‘works’. Ignore the BS and ask for what you need/want. Call them out. OF COURSE, the minions will INSIST BY GOD AND BY TRUMP that Donnie was just ‘hitting back’ and BY GOD AND BY TRUMP it’s REALLY those brown skinned racists and old jews that are making this country a shthole but hey…