Baltimore Residents: Trump’s Attacks on the City Are Rooted in “Racism a...

From Democracy Now response to Trump trashing Baltimore and Black people and other People of color and immigrants. Trump uses the anti-semitic racist trope of infestation or vermin and rats. It was the NAZIS propaganda which bombarded Germany with the some sort of disgusting racist propaganda. And now Trump is hyping the same propaganda what one wonders will be Trump's limit. "... Democracy Now! Published on 29 Jul 2019 President Trump is facing widespread outrage after describing Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” in tweets attacking Congressmember Elijah Cummings, one of the most prominent African-American lawmakers in Washington. Trump tweeted that Cummings’s district is “considered the Worst in the USA,” and said “no human being would want to live there.” Trump’s initial tweets came after Fox News ran a story about Baltimore and after Cummings criticized the conditions of immigration jails along the Mexican border. Officials across Baltimore and Maryland denounced the president’s remarks, and The Baltimore Sun responded by publishing an editorial titled “Better to have a few rats than to be one.” We speak with Kaye Wise Whitehead, associate professor of communication and African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland and host of a local radio show in Baltimore, and Dayvon Love, director of public policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle."