President Trump slams Elijah Cummings and Baltimore, Democrats rush to declare racism,

and President Obama finally at long last chimes in. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, whenever you think it's going to be a really slow weekend, President Trump,

he's bored, he's sitting around the White House, watching some Fox in front,

just enjoying himself, maybe eating some Cheetos, whatever it is. And then he just starts tweeting. And you know, the world is going to explode. And as with nearly every weekend, that's what happened this weekend. So let's just jump right into the news. President Trump decides over the weekend that he needs to watch Fox and Friends. Now, when President Trump watches Fox and Friends, he basically

becomes a commenter on a right-wing website or a caller to talk radio, meaning he just sort of spouts

into the void. As folks online say, Donnie from Queens called. And that's what President

Trump did. He was watching a segment on Fox and Friends about the shortcomings of Baltimore,

and in particular, he was very upset at Representative Elijah Cummings, who is one of the Congress people who is now calling for President Trump's impeachment.

And this led President Trump to sound off. Donnie from Queens on the air, quote, Representative Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men and women of Border Patrol about conditions at the southern border when actually his Baltimore district is far worse

and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the United States, as proven

last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient, and well-run just very crowded.

Coming district is a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess. If he spent more time

in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. And then he concluded,

along these lines, why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings District when it is

considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States? No human being would

want to live there. Where is all this money going?

How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately. So the media immediately jump all over this. How could President Trump label Elijah Cummings a bad Congressperson? How could President

Trump rip into Baltimore as a terrible, terrible place? So they immediately label this racist.

A couple of things. First off, when President Trump tweets this kind of stuff, it's not helpful. The reason that it's not helpful, generally, is not because he's not putting his focus in the right place. It's because he doesn't actually care. I mean, President Trump is not coming up with an inner city policy for Baltimore and then saying, listen, Baltimore has been a failing mess for decades on end. Here is my plan.

Why won't Democrats work with me to improve Baltimore? Instead, it's Elijah Cummings is a jerk and his city's terrible. His city's garbage. And you know that's what President Trump is doing because he has now done this with London. He's done this with New York City. He's done this with New Hampshire. He does this over and over. Whenever he sees a politician he doesn't like, he immediately goes to that person's area is bad.

Right?

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