Donald trump likes to grab the news with a barrage of tweets. Just weeks after insulting four Democratic congresswomen, all from minority backgrounds, the president has found another target. On July 27th it was Elijah Cummings, a black Democratic congressman from Maryland's seventh district, home to much of the city of Baltimore, who attracted the president's wrath. Mr Cummings, who as chairman of the House Oversight Committee has been investigating Mr Trump, comes from "the worst run and most dangerous" district in America, the president jeered. Much of the city, he said, is a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess", in which "no human being would want to live".
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