‘Hates Whites!’ Trump Takes On Al Sharpton, ‘King Elijah’ In Third Day Of Wild Racist Meltdown

Donald Trump kicked off the new week the same way he ended the previous one - by stoking racial tensions on Twitter. The president spent most of the weekend berating Elijah Cummings and denigrating the city of Baltimore, which Trump called a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess". He also called the city "dangerous and filthy", and assessed that "no human being would want to live there". That sparked accusations of racism and elicited a furious Op-Ed from the Baltimore Sun. Trump doubled a

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2 thoughts on “‘Hates Whites!’ Trump Takes On Al Sharpton, ‘King Elijah’ In Third Day Of Wild Racist Meltdown

  1. I wonder if this is a playbook any other politician will be able to replicate. For example, say future President Democrat in one week declares a national emergency and diverts Pentagon funding to fight climate change, orders the E.P.A. to ban glyphosate and coal, grants all Central Americans refugee status, replaces the C.I.A. director with Michael Moore, and gets into a YouTube beef with James Woods. I wonder if Fox News and the right-wing noise machine would just short circuit and concentrate on the YouTube war while the demos looked forward to the release of Madden ’23 and the animated reboot of Avengers Endgame? Policy progression just by overloading the limited attention spans and interests of all involved?