Using his favorite racist epithet for minorities, the racist in the White House has, for the second time in two weeks, used the term “infested” to describe minority communities. But as Luckovitch shows, the real RATS — Stephen Miller, Baltimore slumlord Jared Kushner, Bill Barr, Mike Pence and, of course, the big Orange RAT himself, are in the White House. And Trump just appointed — no kidding — John RATcliffe as head of his Office of National Intelligence.
In consecutive Tweets — can’t make this stuff up — Trump whined that Democrats play the “race card” when they can’t address facts or issues (he was — boo, hoo — upset because Rep Elijah Cummings DID address facts and issues about border mismanagement), and then in the next Tweet called Cummings, a civil rights icon, a racist, because he could not respond to Cummings’ facts and issues.
Trump is utterly ignorant about Cummings’ district, which includes parts of Baltimore as well as affluent suburban areas. It is near the highest in the nation in educational level among majority African American districts.
Apparently, Trump’s only familiarity with Baltimore is that son in law (or outlaw) Jared Kushner is a slumlord there, owning 17 apartment complexes totaling 9,000 units with hundreds of code violations and citations. Trump apparently thinks the entire area runs slums like his family.
Using his favorite racist epithet for minorities, the racist in the White House has, for the second time in two weeks, used the term “infested” to describe minority communities. But as Luckovitch shows, the real RATS — Stephen Miller, Baltimore slumlord Jared Kushner, Bill Barr, Mike Pence and, of course, the big Orange RAT himself, are in the White House. And Trump just appointed — no kidding — John RATcliffe as head of his Office of National Intelligence.
In consecutive Tweets — can’t make this stuff up — Trump whined that Democrats play the “race card” when they can’t address facts or issues (he was — boo, hoo — upset because Rep Elijah Cummings DID address facts and issues about border mismanagement), and then in the next Tweet called Cummings, a civil rights icon, a racist, because he could not respond to Cummings’ facts and issues.
Trump is utterly ignorant about Cummings’ district, which includes parts of Baltimore as well as affluent suburban areas. It is near the highest in the nation in educational level among majority African American districts.
Apparently, Trump’s only familiarity with Baltimore is that son in law (or outlaw) Jared Kushner is a slumlord there, owning 17 apartment complexes totaling 9,000 units with hundreds of code violations and citations. Trump apparently thinks the entire area runs slums like his family.