The Baltimore Sun’s editorial staff has fired back at the occupant for his vile racist tweets about Elijah Cummings and Baltimore on Saturday.
And they don’t pull punches.
They correctly point out that Trump didn’t mean certain areas of the district, such as Ellicott City, for example, or Baldwin or Monkton or Prettyboy, all of which are contained in the sprawling yet oddly-shaped district that runs from western Howard County to southern Harford County.
They cut right to the chase:
It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. 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.
And again:
No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. 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.
As the Sun points out, this is a man who attacks at the slightest provocation. And given Cummings’ attacks on Trump’s racism and willingness to call it as such, his attacks on his concentration camps, and Fox running attacks on Baltimore, well, Fox rang the bell and Trump salivated and ran to his Twitter with itchy thumbs.
And then the final paragraph is a beauty and joy to read:
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.
