Trump Wants to Police Black Cities

We are now in Day Four of Donald Trump’s Twitter War on Baltimore and, by extension, Elijah Cummings, the House representative whose district includes parts of the city. Cummings presides over the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has launched several investigations and hearings into Trump’s activities. Today, Trump declared that the Maryland congressman should “investigate himself,” alleging that “billions of dollars” have been “stolen and wasted” in Baltimore, which he told reporters was a “filthy, dirty … horrible” city.

This is a roast Trump has been performing on Twitter since July 27, when he began questioning Cummings’s leadership and calling the Maryland city a “very dangerous & filthy place” that is “rat and rodent infested.” On Monday, Trump attacked civil rights activist Al Sharpton, saying the MSNBC analyst “hates cops & whites,” just for visiting Baltimore for a conference.