The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board has responded to Trump’s racist attack on the city in an option piece titled “Better to Have a Few Rats Than to Be One.”
“If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land,” the editorial said. “‘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.”
David Simon, the creator and star of the seminal TV series The Wire has blasted Donald Trump, calling him a “simplistic, racist moron” and “a permanent stain on our land”.
Actor Dominic West, who played Detective Jimmy McNulty in all five seasons of The Wire, asked: “What would a lonely hysterical neurotic who uses hand cleanser all day understand about a vibrant community like Baltimore?
Filmmaker John Waters said in an interview “Give me the rats and roaches of Baltimore any day over the lies and racism of your Washington, Mr Trump. Come on over to that neighborhood and see if you have the nerve to say it in person!”
Simon later tweeted that Baltimore was “a city of good Americans who deserve more than a grifting, hollow and self-absorbed failure of a man as their president”. He added that Trump he would find the “humanity of those he encountered [in Baltimore] could not matter to him; only their lack of whiteness and his discomfort”.
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