Baltimore Mayor Bernard Young isn’t here to entertain President Trump’s attacks over the weekend against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and his majority-black district, which includes the city.
Donnie’s hurls abuse while hiding behind his Twitter account. In person, he is a shriveling piece of overcooked linguini. He is not a President in any way, he is a coward and a phony in every way.
I think you’re underselling his assets.
The Baltimore episode really has driven home, more than most things, the fact that Trump does not understand or does not care that he is ostensibly President of the United States, not President of the Deplorable Base. The President traditionally does not do things like point and mock and say “ha ha, that part of America sucks!” At least not out loud. To the extent he recognizes there are sucky parts, he’s supposed to work to make them better.
Classy…how a REAL politician ‘works’. Ignore the BS and ask for what you need/want. Call them out. OF COURSE, the minions will INSIST BY GOD AND BY TRUMP that Donnie was just ‘hitting back’ and BY GOD AND BY TRUMP it’s REALLY those brown skinned racists and old jews that are making this country a shthole but hey…
Trump said in his inaugural that the “American Carnage” was going to end, we now have so many mass shootings that they don’t even make news anymore. What has Trump done about mass shootings?
Even after all of tRump’s racist tweets, twitter still hasn’t ban him from their platform. Not only does tRump find himself above the law for the time being, but being twitchytweeter-in-chief seems to give him some sort of absurd privilege I’m not sure anyone else would be afforded under the same sort of relentless racist attacks. Very disappointing…and I’m guessing Susan Collins agrees with me.
I appreciate this position from the mayor of Baltimore. I raised my kid this way: don’t come to me with a problem - come to me with a solution (her handing me the fee for a speeding ticket before I even knew she’d gotten one was the perfect example of how this works - she didn’t have a checking account at the time or I might not have ever known about it).
This guy in the WH is constitutionally unable to do anything other than hurl insults - I don’t think he’s actually solved a single problem since he took office.
But the Right will accuse the Baltimore mayor of doing nothing to solve the problem and why can’t he just pull himself and his city up by its bootstraps - at some point, I hope he points to the Kushner-owned properties as a part of the problem.
Not a damn thing except that he made sure those with mental illness could get their hands on a weapon much easier as I recall.
Either the mayor is a believer in the old adage “don’t get in a pissing match with a skunk,” or he genuinely hopes his refusal to respond to the provocations will finally force 45 to STFU.
“Normally when a new mayor comes into office whether through a mayor resigning or whatever they get a letter from the President congratulating him and offering to meet with them and find out their priorities. I haven’t received anything and he is right down the road.”
Not everyone is Obama and ‘W’.
Nah, I bet it just revs 45 up to become even more inflammatory.
As we all appear to be, I’m just waiting for the n word to surface. It’s only a matter of time.
The first thing they need to build is a nice golf course —
Baltimore is a trim tab of a city in many ways. At the end of WW2, it had roughly a million people, thriving factories and shipyards. It was both ethnically and economically diverse, e.g., the old Baltimore Colts fan base.
For more than half a century, Baltimore was the epitome of white flight. Manufacturing went overseas, and really big freighters found other ports. Declining population meant less property tax revenue, causing schools to crumble, so more parents with young kids left…
About 20 years ago, a couple far sighted folks (notably Marty O’Malley) recognized that the key to thriving cities is immigration. All thriving American cities attract new Americans. No American city thrives without 'em.
So O’Malley became the first American mayor to create a deliberate policy to attract immigrants. (Every other city treats immigration sorta like weather – either it rains, or it doesn’t.) By the 2010 census, Baltimore had reversed its half-century population decline and began to grow again.
Then came Freddy Gray.
(N.B. – one thing O’Malley did, which contemporary copycats get wrong, is focused on GREEN CARDS. Bloomberg funds an effort “Welcoming America” which is all about guest workers.)
(Extra N.B. – cities should be able to sponsor people for green cards.)
As Michael Tomasky said elsewhere,
Imagine if President Obama had called Kentucky’s 5th District, oh, let’s see, a low-intelligence area infested with rattlesnakes and inbred kids.
You fool! You just gave him more ammo! Anything that implies Trump is not the bestest and brightest means you’re un-American!
Is Maryland’s Rethugliklan Governor Larry Hogan still maintaining radio silence?
