Trump sparks outrage with derogatory tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

In a series of tweets on Saturday morning, President Trump slammed Rep. Elijah Cummings for his criticism of treatment of migrants at the southern border, baselessly claiming that Cummings' congressional district was one of the "worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States."

"Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA," Mr. Trump said in the first of several tweets.

"As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place," Mr. Trump continued. He threatened to investigate the federal funds sent to Cummings' district, and said that "no human being would want to live there."

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Mr. Trump's tweets quickly stirred outrage online, with many questioning why he would assume the black representative would preside over a squalid district. It is unclear what specifically triggered the attacks on the chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee. However, Matthew Gertz of Media Matters reported that a segment criticizing Cummings and his district aired earlier Saturday morning on "Fox & Friends," one of Mr. Trump's preferred cable news shows.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sparks-outrage-with-derogatory-tweets-about-rep-elijah-cummings/

[safeinOhio]

1. trump is running this country just like

he ran(into the ground)his casinos.

[groundloop]

2. Yes.... and it takes a special kind of stupid to bankrupt a casino

[safeinOhio]

4. I live next to a Tribal casino, run by the Tribe

and it does so well every members gets a check for over $50K a year.

[onetexan]

46. you mean he's NOT running the country. He's got enablers, racists and grifting cronies running this

country to the ground. This vulgar, pathetic man is begging us through his horrid actions to rid the country of him with our collective ballots next year.

[Blue_Tires]

49. The sad part is his opinions are totally shaped

by Fox News and whatever other kooky right wing/Russian agitprop farms he gets his "news" from...

[CrispyQ]

3. Oh for fucks sake.

with many questioning why he would assume the black representative would preside over a squalid district...

Because he's a fucking racist! JFC, you people wouldn't say shit if you had a mouthful of it!

[orangecrush]

11. ...

[CrispyQ]

13. It's a very old phrase. I can't take credit for it.

The things my grandmother used to say!

[orangecrush]

15. ...

[MaryMagdaline]

27. My good friend from West Virginia used to say that a lot

[3catwoman3]

31. Grandma must have been...

...a hoot!

[BeyondGeography]

5. No human being eh?

He’s doubling down on the hate because his advisors are telling him it’s working, IMO. What a shitshow 2020 is going to be.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

44. Well, look at it this way

Instead of the DNC having to spend millions of dollars on advertising come November, all they will need to do is run quote after quote of trumpie's ugly, vulgar, misogynistic, racist rhetoric. Run that shit 24/7 on an endless loop, until people get to repulsed by it, that they RUN to the polling places to vote him out.

[SWBTATTReg]

55. You nailed it! A constant rehash of gutter mouth's utterings and idiotic mumblings would go...

a long way towards proving his unfitness for duty for the highest office in the land...

[SWBTATTReg]

6. What an absolute a&&...nt

[Cattledog]

7. He said John Lewis' district was 'falling apart' and 'crime infested' in 2017

Trump is scum.

[Marthe48]

8. trump tower is a dump:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49868/trump-tower-what-a-dump/

and a follow-up: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a50060/someone-barely-cleaned-up-the-trump-dump/


Baltimore is a lovely city. Rep. Cummings is a dedicated and honorable man, a true leader.

[groundloop]

51. Thanks for posting those links..... very interesting

And also, I think, very telling about tRump himself.

[Marthe48]

54. you're welcome

I read the first one, 2016, 2017? It stuck with me. I want to read the follow-up, I just glanced at it.

As people say, trump lives in the second he is in. No past, no future.

In the same vein, I heard that his driver of 25 years is suing him for non-payment of overtime.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Keep poking at Trump, make him "lose it"

make him say the one word that he can't hide from.

Then, he will be gone for good.

[Traildogbob]

17. Poke poke and poke some more

Not for a verbal response. For❤️💥💔🔥💩💩💩🖕🏽🖕🏿🖕🏾🖕🏼🖕🏻🖕🙏🏽 the fuse is lit and burning toward that huuuuge pile of explosive, extremely flammable blob of fat ass. Be gone. Everybody blow on the flame and fan the fire.

[forgotmylogin]

56. Swipe left on this administration.

[Traildogbob]

59. Swipe!

Believe me, I would love to take a swipe at all of them, in every direction. That I can tell you.

[SansACause]

60. I wish that were true.

His supporters don't care what he says. It wouldn't surprise me that if he said it (or the Tom Arnold tape got out), his approval ratings would go up, especially among white evangelical Christians.

[Ohiogal]

10. What kind of a President

says such disgusting lies about a member of Congress and his constituents and posts it on a public forum?

My mind has been so boggled over the sheer cruelty and falsehoods he utters it cannot be boggled any more!

[Harker]

20. Perhaps you'd best increase your boggleability...

there's lots more to come.

Gotta leave room for dessert.

[qazplm135]

26. A Shithole one

Of course

[BlueMTexpat]

35. A sh*thole who is not now and

never has deserved to have his name associated with the title "President."

I have not ever, do not now, and never will recognize 45 as anyone other than the illegal Occupant of the WH and a Lying Liar Traitor-in-Chief.

And I also happen to be PROUD of my Congressman Elijah Cummings AND of his district in Columbia, MD, where I reside when I am in the US.

[orangecrush]

12. how much more?

[Politicub]

14. This is backfiring on Trump. Support continues to peel away.

It torments him, which is a satisfying thought. I hope democrats occupy every cell of his pea-sized brain.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Oh my,

is the Accused Rapist and Racist aware of something? Like maybe the Grand Jury Info requested can not be stopped by is Lawyer Billy Barr. Or is something about his Crime Families Real Estate Dealings coming back to bite them in their crooked ass.

[pbmus]

24. We are going to see deflection up to and including war with Iran _

[Wellstone ruled]

29. This Fake Reality TV

POS that sullies up the Oval Office,throws crap out to distract,that we know. His attack on Cummings is more serious this time. This POS plays the outside to the middle game. Some Rethug on the Intell Committee most likely ginned up this attack in order to gain favor with their King.

Nothing happens in a Vacuum. Key will be the Sunday so called Talking Heads.

[Stuart G]

18. This very stupid insensitive comment is reaction to the Mueller hearing

..Trump was shown to be a crook by someone who knows crooks quite well, (Mueller) so he takes off on someone who he feels superior to. (racist reasoning). The correct thing to do for Trump would have been to keep his mouth shut, and go golfing for a few days. The second part is easy, but the first part is very difficult for him. A person with a high IQ would figure that out, but Trump is viciously stupid, and he cannot do that very simple thing: Keep Your Mouth Shut for a while.
..So, the Trumpster takes off on someone else. Why? He cannot shut the fuck up.

[madaboutharry]

19. My opinion:

1. Donald J. Trump is a disgusting and vile racist and mentally ill.

2. Bishop Talbert Swan wins Twitter.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. It's about Ivanka's emails .Cummings is closing in on her, and the family scams

Last paragraph:

His committee also authorized subpoenas for personal emails and texts used for official business by top White House advisers, including Mr. Trump's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

Trump can't stand anyone black showing the illegal acts of the daughter he has a crush on. His white entitlement is cranked up to 11.

Notice that Trump despises the people of Baltimore. Why is there a cliche of "Democrats hate flyover country", when Republican contempt for city-dwellers ("no human being would want to live there" ) is on parade every day?

[IcyPeas]

22. and once again, while all eyes are on trump.....

this is going on....

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday set up votes on lifetime appointments for 19 judicial nominees next week, ...

Now McConnell is beginning to work his way through the 111 District Court vacancies even as the House heads home for the summer this week.
...
The Senate is also set confirm Kelly Craft as ambassador to the United Nations and David Norquist as deputy Defense secretary and is likely to approve a two-year budget deal struck by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

“Not bad for a week’s work and that’s what the Senate will accomplish before we adjourn for August,” McConnell said on the floor.

they are successfully changing the courts FOREVER in their favor.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/25/mcconnell-judges-senate-agenda-1435255

[Nevermypresident]

28. It's pretty bad when I rank who I despise the most re trump, Repub MOC,

Administration officials (past and present), trump family members, etc.

[Jacoby365]

23. What Trump is really doing is getting people to talk about his tweet.

He even threatens to investigate the federal funds sent to Cummings' district. All of this to deflect the conversation from the Russian money flowing into McConnell's home state of Kentucky, which explains, in part, McConnell's refusal to do anything to prevent Russian interference in our next election. This is what really needs to be talked about, and even investigated. Should be the top story of every news organization right now, in my opinion.

[Jedi Guy]

25. Just when you think he can go no lower...

He finds a way to be even more reprehensible and disgusting than before. I just don't get it. If he weren't causing so much misery to so many people, I'd feel bad for him. He's clearly not a happy person. But rather than fix his own life, he's decided to fuck up the lives of as many people as he can.

[FiveGoodMen]

34. We should all stop thinking that

Trump, GOP, Nazi-Americans will do anything.

Anything.

Stop being surprised.

[bdamomma]

63. too bad

we couldn't surprise them.

[murielm99]

30. My brother lived in Baltimore for a few years.

He went to Peabody Conservatory.

I enjoyed visiting there. I liked the harbor and the big market place.

It was nice to see all the people washing off their front stoops on a regular basis.

It was a very racially mixed city, which is fine with me. They have their homeless. Who doesn't?

[BlueMTexpat]

36. I personally love

Baltimore, although I am not a native Marylander.

The city has its problems, many of which are depicted in "The Wire," but it also has a distinctive personality of its own, great people, some truly wonderful institutes and universities - Johns Hopkins anyone? - and an exceptional symphony orchestra, conducted by the marvelous Marin Alsop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Alsop

How dare that piece of white trash use the language he did? How DARE he!

[yaesu]

32. the orange hitler doesn't care because he knows it motivates his racist followers. nt

[Timmygoat]

33. I cannot understand

That people of (I guess) sound mind would vote for someone like Trump who does nothing but spread hate and division, throughout this country. This is not normal, or if it is the new normal I regret that I live in a country where this happens every day.

[Harker]

48. You're overly generous, I believe.

Sound minds are scarcer than you think.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. Hey. Trump. Yeah, you. Donald.

Go back where you came from?

[padah513]

38. He's desperate

Slinging spaghetti against the wall hoping something sticks and changes the subject. He's acting like it didn't but Mueller testifying stung him big time. Expect a lot of madness to happen in the next few weeks with Congress in recess.

[BlueWI]

39. Plenty of fodder for commercials in swing districts.

Need a positive message predominantly, but reminders of this president's racist attitudes are also worth sharing with voters.

[Hulk]

40. Just another vulgar act by this pig of a human...and won't move the needle at all.

So sad we have to be exposed to this real sack of shit. Every day he doesn't something as vulgar or worse than the day before...and we are becoming immune to it all. Our society is extremely sick today...and for generations to come.

[onetexan]

45. yes the buffoon is again being very presidential, and asking for us to unpresident him

[Arazi]

41. Devastating commentary. Well worth 2 mins of your time to watch this

Link to tweet

?s=19

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. "no human being", he tweeted. So he thinks Cummings & people of color are SUBHUMAN. . . . nt

[PSPS]

43. Well, Cummings is black and doesn't flatter him, so I guess he should "go back where he came from."

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

47. Streets of Baltimore

[Eugene]

50. This is yet another chapter in the shithole countries/go back where you came from campaign.

As Trump sees it, people of color come from shithole places. His 2016 "what do you have to lose" campaign pitch to blacks and Hispanics trafficked in the very same prejudices.

[doc03]

52. Another day another mindless tweet

[doc03]

53. If nobody repeated his f---g tweets he would go

away.

[bdamomma]

64. if they just avoided talking about

him he would probably shrivel up from being ignored.

Ass that he is.

He is not normal this whole situation is not normal..

[doc03]

65. If the news media didn't report every stupid tweet

I wouldn't even know about them. The media can't help themselves they feed on each other. Morning Joe helped make Trump now he hates him.
.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

57. Donald Trump is a genius at creating chaos

And also conning people.

He's only an idiot at all the other stuff.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

58. Outrage is justified but we had better start pounding the Party platform soon.

tRump's No. 1 objective is to dominate all forms of media by creating a massive, constant distraction and the nation is letting him get away with it. He keeps our heads spinning and simultaneously keeps his base in a mad dog fury at Democrats.

We need a powerful mechanism for getting OUR platform's message to the public non-stop 'till 2020 elections. Things like healthcare, economic equality, fairness and humane treatment for immigrants and stopping the international economic bullying are a few of the topics that need to be before the American public now. Democratic campaign rallies alone won't do it.

Don't know how to do it, but we must take Trump off constant center stage......

[orangecrush]

66. Pounding the party platform

Does not work when you are up against a David Duke.

You aren't going to change Trump voter's minds.

Pointing out exactly what nazis are and getting good people to vote does work.

[ck4829]

61. K&R

[bdamomma]

62. Oh boy

we have a very sick POS squatting in the WH, all that hate he consumes and spews should do him in. Sickening POS he is.

How dare he, slander Elijah Cummings.

I wish the orange POS would just STFU. He needs to.