Trump Might Have To Give Speech In ‘Rodent Infested’ Baltimore At GOP Retreat

US President Donald Trump looks on as the US attorney general delivers remarks on citizenship and the census in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) ... US President Donald Trump looks on as the US attorney general delivers remarks on citizenship and the census in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Awkward.

President Donald Trump repeatedly bashed Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and his majority black district in Baltimore this weekend in a series of racist tweets about how the city is supposedly a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”

But according to the Washington Post, members of Trump’s own party still plan on spending their yearly retreat in Baltimore this September–meaning Trump will likely have to give a speech in a city he described as a “very dangerous and filthy place.”

The Post pointed out that the Marriott Waterfront hotel, where the event appears to be located, isn’t quite in Cummings’ district (Maryland’s 7th District) but is just four blocks away from the area Trump’s been attacking all weekend.

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  1. Some evangelicals would have us believe that Trump was sent by God to be President. Try wrapping your head around that for awkwardness! Good God Almighty!

  2. Re Baltimore indigenous rats: The GOP’s having their retreat there will be like shipping rats to Hamlin Town.

  3. I’m guessing two or three protesters might show up with pictures of rats…

  4. Makes perfect sense. God sends punishment for sins just as She sends rewards for acts of good.

    Clearly, we’re not on Santa’s good list currently.

  5. Trump: I have asked Putin to invade Baltimore and make it a colony of USSR. US is not fixable.

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