Trump: “No Strategy” Behind My Attacks On Elijah Cummings
[guest post by Dana]
Here’s what President Trump said when asked by a reporter about his attacks on Elijah Cummings:
“There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy,” Trump said upon returning to the White House from a trip to Jamestown, Va.
“All it is is I’m pointing out facts,” he added. “The most unsafe city in our country is Baltimore.”
He repeated his assertion that Cummings, who represents parts of Baltimore, should use his power as House Oversight and Reform chairman to investigate the city’s use of federal funds.
Asked why he has focused his rage on Cummings instead of local leaders over the plight of Baltimore, Trump initially denied he was angry but later chastised the lawmaker for his fierce criticism of conditions at the southern border.
“I’m just telling you the facts,” Trump said. “I’m not angry at anybody. I’m just saying Elijah Cummings has been there for 26 years … he’s seen these mayors get thrown out, thrown out, thrown out. They’re all friends of his.”
Trump on the political strategy behind his attacks on Elijah Cummings: "There's no strategy. I have no strategy. There's zero strategy." pic.twitter.com/cL0OCQzVTr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2019
And while an official in the administration echoed the president in saying that his attacks on Cummings aren’t part of a larger strategy, one wonders. Maybe it isn’t yet, but it’s easy to see it becoming just that:
Trump has said in the past day that he thinks his messaging about inner-cities is resonating and doesn’t appear swayed by the concerns of his advisers.
Trump claimed Tuesday morning while speaking to reporters that he was “helping himself” with voters when whether he feels he is alienating moderates with his tweets.
“No, I think I’m helping myself because I’m pointing out the tremendous corruption,” he said before departing the White House.
In spite of his attacks on Elijah Cummings, Trump insisted that he has received phone calls from a lot of African-Americans praising him for his comments on Baltimore:
“I’ve received more phone calls than I think on any other subject of people from Baltimore and other cities corruptly run by Democrats, thanking me for getting involved,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.
“Those people are living in hell in Baltimore. They’re largely African American,” he said. “You have a large African American population, and they really appreciate what I’m doing. And they’ve let me know it. They really appreciate it.”The president asserted again on Tuesday afternoon that he’d heard from “many” African Americans who called to thank him for bringing attention to Baltimore, but did not elaborate further.
Additionally, the president blamed “fake news” for a new Quinnipiac University poll that found 80 percent of black voters believe he is racist:
If the news reported it properly of all of the things I’ve done for African Americans… I think I’d do very well with the African Americans,” Trump said. “And I think I’m doing very well right now.”
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Here we go.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:00 pmTrump said referring to every single thing he’s ever said, done, whatever. Because…moron.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:04 pmBlah, blah, blah… https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1156116768663859200
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:12 pmWhen reporters asked Elijah Cummings about his strategy for attacking Trump on conditions at the border….
Wait, never mind.
Munroe (0b2761) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:16 pmBut… but… that’s different.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:23 pmI thought Chicago was the most unsafe city!
Goes off to look….
If I am reading it right, he’s not far off when it comes to violent crime (Baltimore is Number 3, after St Louis and Detroit) but well behind the “leaders” in property crime rates (Albuquerque, Memphis, and Spokane). St Louis seems to be the worst when looking at them combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
kishnevi (496414) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:23 pmWell, this is great. President Trump will apparently win 65% of the black vote next year and cruise to a 50-state reelection. He’s suggested as much with his declaration that “You have a large African American population, and they really appreciate what I’m doing. And they’ve let me know it. They really appreciate it.”
JVW (54fd0b) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:26 pmOf course it’s a strategy.
History rhymes:
The ‘Great Silent Majority’ is listening.
And watching.
And white.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:36 pmUh… does anyone want to point out a problem with Trump’s statement?
Do people really call the White House thinking they can talk to the President?
Methinks he’s stretching the truth there a weee bit.
whembly (51f28e) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:47 pmAnd St. Louis isn’t a true #1 as the city and county are separate entities. If you combine them, I’m not sure the St. Louis region would be in the top 10.
So, in reality, Baltimore is closer to the top.
whembly (51f28e) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:48 pmDSCA, if Black folks showed up just at the level of the Obama races, the Dems win in 2020 in a landslide. If Hispanics or Asians show up at even 2016 black levels, the Dems win in a landside.
Since only 60% of black folks showed up in 2016, and less than half of other minorities, that’s a massive voting block which tips toward the Dems. Of course, only a bit more white people bother to vote too. And that is just registered voters, not eligible voters. This is all literally the least you can do as a citizen, but the silent majority is the eligible and registered voters that just don’t, half just can’t be bothered. It’s a sad state of affairs.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:51 pmhttps://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/rat-photo-bombs-reporters-live-coverage-baltimores-decay
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:06 pmNo, he hasn’t.
He’s been elected 13 times (and if this was his 13th term he would have served less than 1 year iof his 13th term, so it would 25 years as Sean Hannity had it) but he was first elected in a special election in April 1996. He’s been there just a little over 23 years.
Now who’s feeding Trump this information? (Trump really gains nothing by making it 26 years instead of 23 years, so it’s just an error on his part) Of course, Trump doesn’t check, or ask someone else to check.
And how well has any of this been researched?
Who knows if they were friends of his? It’s just a guess, maybe.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:12 pmFollow the money…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:21 pmis urban employment latino and african american, inproved over the miracle worker obama’s term, when he insisted no jobs would come back, but the press kissed his posterior so fervently they needed a shot of penicillin, he cried crocodile tears over youth who made stupid mistakes like michael brown and older like freddy gray, who was a predator in the community, decision that set those two cities ablaze, of course the journolist just smiled, and helped themselves to a shot of penicillin, the rizzotto tray that ran every word of copy by the clintons, were willing to continue this state of intentional decay, because it flattered their sensibilities,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:22 pmNow there are problems with the mayors
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/us/10baltimore.html
So it looks like petty theft of what was supposed to be given to poor people, not her, and failing to realize that a trip counted as a gift, and even if she was dating someone she was required to report it – maybe restaurant meals too?
There were some accusations of politically biased investigators:
But maybe he’s supposed to be biased.
What happened?
They didn’t blame her (or find a criminal act) for the other things.
I guess she must have thought nobody knew about these gift cards. Or maybe how many there were. Whatever it was.
Now what Elijah Cummings has to do with any of this, I don’t see.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:25 pmFOX Baltimore
@FOXBaltimore
A rat runs through a FOX45 Baltimore Reporter’s live shot during a story on President Trump’s tweet Baltimore is rat infested
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/rat-photo-bombs-fox45-live-shot
harkin (92ce59) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:33 pm_
it’s part of this dysfunctional culture, whether baltimore, atlanta, new york city detroit (was recovering to a degree after their death spiral) even affluent metropoles like san francisco’s are utterly insane, they will be deciding on how the rest of us love, that is the way it was for eight years, while billions were given to the banks, who then were fined a pittance, which went back into democratic coffers,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:36 pm8…
History always repeats
He tells himself before he goes to sleep
Don’t say the words you might regret
You lost before, and now you can’t forget
There was a Dem he used to know
He felt her loss, a savage blow
He was so old, too blind to see
But anyway that’s history
He says history always repeats
He tells himself before he goes to sleep
Don’t say the words you might regret
You lost before, and now you can’t forget
You say they always play the fool
They can’t go on if that’s the rule
Better to yak than hesitate
You need a win, you’ll have to wait
He says history always repeats
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:40 pmHe tells himself before he goes to sleep
Don’t say the words you might regret
You lost before, and now you can’t forget
oh this sameerah fellow, a tlaib intern as it turns out
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-lawmaker-who-disrupted-trump-speech-has-history-of-anti-israel-remarks
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:40 pmAs long as Cummings remains not exonerated he is as good as guilty.
BuDuh (bc7703) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:42 pmOne of Tilapia’s groupers…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:42 pm@19… Be a Dick; hear the Trump-ettes sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdECRWqhHfo
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 3:56 pmwho does one address it to, the previous mayor pugh, well she won’t be getting back to you in a while, the last one, who gave the protesters ‘room to destroy’ mayor carcetti, who was relatively the least worse in a while, now david simon, retcons urban flight to 1955, is everyone an insincere jackalope,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:00 pmnot the lies that her paper, repeated ad infinitum,
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/07/30/seriously-messed-up-nyts-carl-hulse-and-maureen-dowd-discuss-the-catholic-deep-states-influence-on-scotus/
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:07 pmIt’s debate night, which means it’s time for another round of
DEMOCRATIC DEBATE BINGO
Visit the link to generate your own, unique bingo card, then play along online while you watch FAKENEWSFAILINGCNN during the debate!
There will be yuuuge, absolutely incredible, fabulous CASH PRIZES(*) up to $1 MILLION for the winners, believe me. I asked whether the cash prizes would amazing and a lot of people said, “Sir, they’ll be even better than that.” So you know.
(*) All cash prizes will be paid by Mexico. One hundred percent.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:08 pm@11. Not w/this strategy. You’re working class white, come home to your mortgaged split-level in Milwaukee from a long day at the brewery and crack a cold one; or leave your hard hat in your pick-up and hit the bar in Akron after your third shift at Firestone; or settle into your comfy chair with a Rolling Rock in your trailer outside Wheeling after a wet week on the river… flip on your TeeVee and see angry, affluent blacks in colorful garb with frizzy hairdos raging about race with the talking head crowd. You nod… clinch you teeth, and know who you’re voting for in November, 2020. There’s a lot of silent, Archie Bunkers in America. He was from Queens, too.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:14 pm@26. Apparently there’s no other news today on Planet Earth. That is, if you watch CNN.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:17 pmthere are some classic dr, who episodes, specially the Tom baker era, that are more interesting and more plausible,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:24 pmAmerica can’t trust AOC. But America CAN trust AOC to be AOC…
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/07/30/shes-so-gross-aocs-gonna-have-an-even-harder-time-fighting-charges-of-anti-semitism-after-this-radio-show-appearance-audio/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:33 pmNo white males, so far, in the Detroit ‘pre-game show’…
Trump/Haley 2020.
Place your bets…
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:36 pmAl Sharpton’s kryptonite: Tawana Brawley.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:43 pmYou’re all talk and no action.
I offered to accept your wager, for $1000, but you chickened out.
Think of all the Apollo memorabilia you could buy with $1000 of my money!
Dave (1bb933) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:45 pmSo why bother with Haley if your Milwaukee brewery hypothesis is true? In fact that’s the same town (metro area) the Sikh Temple got attacked in…you might put off a lot of those guys even with a relatively less “irritating (unless you are in IT) minority moresp than flip tan or yellow Asians.
urbanleftbehind (8c0984) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:46 pmWhat Trump does is say things that result in knee-jerk reactions from and overreach by Democrats, e.g., their moronic support for a race-baiting, malevolent piece of excrement like Al Sharpton.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 4:56 pm@33. Davy, Davy, Davy. Stay out of the lab; apparently you can’t read.
You were told where to go.
To place your bet.
Don’t forget, they’ll take your rubles in London.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:10 pm@33. Postscript. Think of how little of it you could buy from me. Lowest priced item: $5000.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:11 pmTheres a classic Doug Adam’s script city of the dead, with colin Glover, classic villain from avengers to last crusade.
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:17 pmJulian Glover, much more entertaining.
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:18 pm37…
Ground Control to DCSCA
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:38 pmGround Control to DCSCA
Take your liver pills and put your diaper on
Ground Control to DCSCA (ten, nine, eight, seven, six)
Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three)
Check ignition and may Gaia’s love be with you (two, one, liftoff)
What happened to Dopera, DCSCA?
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:49 pm@40. Nappy time, Colonel; snuggle up close:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/arts/david-bowie-barbie-doll.html
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 5:59 pm@41. Indiana Bland.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:02 pm42… sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs uptown bite.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:06 pmNo coincidence Star Wars in on TCM tonight: This debate looks more and more like the bar scene; Kevetching Ol’Jew, Marion the Librarian, Amy Gnome; The Bald One; Parkinson’s Beto, Peter Buttofcourse and assorted governors where trees out number people. Name the wookie of the year.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:06 pmOf all of ’em, Warren has the most purpose, clarity, and fire in the belly. Yeah I know that notion will get roundly roasted ’round here.
JRH (52aed3) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:12 pm46… and the most natural body language of the group. Close to animatronic.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:14 pmhaha! a fair assessment.
JRH (52aed3) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:15 pm#9
Ah, a NeverTrumper hating on our Great President. Don’t yet know that “an exaggeration is not a lie”? Or that Trump is “just trolling”?
You have to be “deranged” if you don’t understand that Trump makes ridiculously implausible and outrageous statements just to provoke a response from the libs. It’s genius!!
Radegunda (3578a5) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:20 pmIt’s one of those Hobson’s choice:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/horrible-dilemma-ben-carson-describes-the-pain-of-sending-children-back-to-baltimore-homes?fbclid=IwAR0bqpbn9W5928UgNtn9C4RODMCo7jwgTJaWbX0Dcx_3jZ1KuEIzWogKixY
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:25 pm49… who pee’d in your flower pot?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:28 pmTrump strategy is called Whataboutism. The only way Roy Cohn’s slicked-up boy toy whose number on the Presidents’ list is higher than his IQ can elevate himself is by pointing out the faults of others. It has always been his strategy, and it is his fanbois’ strategy.
Which is not to say that Elijah Cummings does not suck.
nk (dbc370) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:29 pm@52. You typo-ed; it’s Whiteaboutism.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:32 pmClose encounters is on as well, of course et is supposed to be the sequel.
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:33 pmAw, fergit it! “Roy Cohn’s slicked-up boy toy” just doesn’t have the same zest without happyfeet here.
nk (dbc370) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:39 pmAnd the white shoe lawyer were just innocent schoolboys that’s not how it worked.
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:45 pm49 — My flowers are looking lovely.
Why does it bother you so much that I have noticed Donald Trump’s habitual, self-serving dishonesty?
I realize that many people simply don’t care that he routinely makes patently false statements to glorify himself or to bash those who don’t glorify him. Many people don’t care that the president has no real concern about truth vs. falsehood. But they act righteously offended if they think someone says something not entirely true about Trump.
It’s a responsibility of citizenship to call out the powerful when they lie to us.
Radegunda (3578a5) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:48 pmMy lifelong Republican parents, having decided they can’t vote for Trump, are trying to decide if they can stomach voting for a Dem. Mom says yes Dad says no.
JRH (52aed3) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:53 pm“Why does it bother you so much that I have noticed Donald Trump’s habitual, self-serving dishonesty?”
It doesn’t bother me that much, as he’s a politician and a known half-a-buffoon. I just hate seeing troubled people in distress.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:54 pm“It’s a responsibility of citizenship to call out the powerful when they lie to us.”
Radegunda (3578a5) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:48 pm
… about phone calls. Take a breather.
Munroe (0b2761) — 7/30/2019 @ 6:54 pmIt’s fun to make fun of Trump, but always keep in mind that when you rattle monkeys’ cages they will quickly fling poo at you.
nk (dbc370) — 7/30/2019 @ 7:13 pmThe yellow vests probably thought the same thing two years ago.
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 7:15 pm@46. She keeps talking about America should not be the first to use nukes unless another uses them first. When, of course, America has uses them. First. And twice.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 7:26 pmkishnevi-
steveg (354706) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:04 pmI think I heard today that the stat on Baltimore is on a per capita basis.
“I’ll take murders per 100,000 for $1000 please” as a jeopardy question.
If this is true, we should investigate where all the money went. $16B?
steveg (354706) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:07 pmhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7299907/Donald-Trumps-aide-Lynne-Patton-asks-Baltimore-financial-help.html
nk-
steveg (354706) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:12 pmyou forgot to throw in a tranny. As in: “tranny boy toy”
I realize that its still an amateur attempt on my part, maybe it needs an adams apple reference.
its rare when someone can condense a beatdown like hf
Maybe they can create a land corridor to delaware.
Narciso (72d34b) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:21 pmThe other day I saw a youtube video of a comedian (who can be quite funny) who wandered off the PC reservation and started to get groans and then outraged heckling… so he transitioned smoothly to midget jokes.
steveg (354706) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:21 pmHe made all the monkeys poo their pants and then laughed at them for throwing their poo like uncoordinated little monkey babies. It was funny… not the jokes, the absolute gnashing frenzy of idiots being played like puppets.
There’s only one happyfeet. I don’t believe he’s banned. He just doesn’t like us anymore.
nk (dbc370) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:24 pmI believe Trump when he says he has no strategy. His tweets are glandular reactions, not pre-planned or tactical or strategic.
Paul Montagu (35419a) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:43 pmI don’t believe Trump when he said that black people from Baltimore called him in praise.
I’m pretty sure he’s on indefinite suspension.
Of course, he may not like us anymore, either.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/30/2019 @ 9:27 pm@71. Don’t bet on it. 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/30/2019 @ 9:43 pm