"That Place Is A HELL HOLE" - Maryland Governor FIRES BACK At Trump For Trashing Baltimore
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore breaks down his complicated relationship with Donald Trump, from disagreeing on SNAP cuts and National Guard threats to praising “baby bonds” Trump accounts, a bizarre disinvitation from a governors’ dinner, and defending Baltimore after Trump called it a “hell hole.”
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| 0:00.0 | Issues with Trump, do you see Trump as your enemy? |
| 0:04.5 | Do you see Trump as the boogeyman? |
| 0:06.3 | Do you see Trump as, you know, because right now you watch everybody campaigning, |
| 0:11.0 | as long as they get up and say Trump's a horrible human being, he's a criminal, he's a this, he's a that, |
| 0:16.5 | I'm gonna get the Democratic ticket. |
| 0:18.0 | How do you view your relationship with Trump and Trump as an individual? |
| 0:22.0 | So I don't view any of these people as my enemy. |
| 0:25.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:26.0 | Like I just, I never ran for office because I wanted to have fights with the President of the United States. |
| 0:30.9 | Like that's so silly to me because every time I'm spending time on that, I'm not spending time on my people. I'm not spending time on |
| 0:40.0 | making sure they're good. Now, are there certain policies that I just venomally disagree with |
| 0:45.2 | that the president is doing 100%? Such as. I mean, did I disagree with? Yeah. Oh, I mean, |
| 0:50.6 | for example, what happened last year around food and snap and the attempt to cut snap for our kids, I just think that is abhorrent. |
| 1:02.0 | Because these are children who relied on this. |
| 1:05.1 | And so, like, for example, what we did in our state, you know, we have a, you know, we actually have a fund called the fiscal responsibility fund, which is primarily made of capital gains tax, that we actually pulled about $63 million |
| 1:15.2 | from that because I was like, I'm not going to let my children go hungry because Washington, |
| 1:21.2 | D.C. was having a food fight. But the thing about it is, is that while there are policies that I |
| 1:26.4 | vehemently disagree with the president, I think we'd be foolish to not say, but there are certain things that we have to be honest about that were good ideas and things that we want to lift up. I mean, for a perfect example, you know, the president was able to get something done that we've been calling for for over a decade, which is essentially |
| 1:44.8 | baby bonds. |
| 1:46.4 | Baby bonds, what he calls the Trump accounts. |
| 1:49.8 | It's one of the best ways of actually being able to address things like the racial |
| 1:54.1 | wealth gap and things like wealth gaps, because if you can actually start investing in |
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