Baltimore Sun Calls Trump ‘Vermin’ In Scathing Op-Ed Responding To POTUS’ Attacks

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The Baltimore Sun on Saturday evening hit back at President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks against Rep. Elijah Cummings and the district he represents in Baltimore, Maryland.

“It’s not hard to see what’s going on here,” the Sun’s editorial board wrote. “The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream.”

Over the weekend, Trump claimed over and over that Cummings was the reason Baltimore is a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”

“It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from,” the Sun’s opinion board wrote, referencing Trump’s racist attacks against four progressive congresswomen two weeks ago.

The op-ed finished with one final slam against the President: “Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”

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  1. When you’re right, you’re right.

    And entirely too many Americans agree with Trump. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to ensure that hatred, fear and loathing are not American values and throw Trump out expeditiously.

  2. Great Post.

    All nations have weak points w/r/t National Character and Ethos. Putin and Trump’s handlers have had a great ride (for THEM) on this.

    It’s about time to end this bullshit, and we will see some VERY ANIMATED Town Halls in the next few weeks…

  3. Show me a large city near water ports that don’t have rats and I’ll show you a photo of the occupant with closely cropped hair instead of that flaming mess he walks around with.

  4. The whole last paragraph is a wonder of precisely damning words.

    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.

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