Little Donnie Trump 8 years old
by digby
I’m sorry. People who like this juvenile nonsense from our immature president are jerks. There’s just no excuse for it.
Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2019
This follows Trump’s recent description of Baltimore as a “rat and rodent infested mess.”
Baltimore, however, is not the only large U.S. city that Trump has been defaming. This week at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Trump not only attacked Baltimore again, but also, other Democrat-dominated cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. After asserting that Baltimore had higher homicide rates than El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, he went on to describe Los Angeles and San Francisco as cities plagued by widespread homelessness.
Trump was trying to send out a message that cities run by Democrats are inherently dysfunctional — never mind the fact that major U.S. industries, from finance to technology, are largely concentrated in cities that Democrats dominate.
A divide between the interests of rural and urban citizens isn’t new. I’m pretty sure it’s been around for millennia. But I don’t think we’ve ever had a president who exploited it so crudely. Coming, as it does, from a man whose entire identity is based upon being the self-styled king of the biggest city in America makes it downright weird.
Are his followers totally immune to the overwhelming dissonance of his messages?
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