Recently, Rep. Cummings, whose district is in Baltimore, Maryland, and President Trump have had at it. Inter alia, while Cummings has called Trump racist and insensitive, Trump has implied the representative is a poster person for corruption and a politician who has been enriching himself at the expense of his constituents, the “enriching” part with good reason, since much money has gone to Cummings’ district to clean and de-squalidize it, and no good results have surfaced.
This, even though Cummings has represented this district in the Maryland legislature and in Congress for nearly a quarter of a century.
What has also been omitted by Cummings is that Trump, the supposed racist, has hired many minorities for his administration, and even before as head of Trump Enterprises. To me, it is obvious that Trump believes in Dr. King’s dictum: It is not the color of one’s skin that should matter, but rather the content of one’s character.
What also is ignored and not mentioned is that Trump did not start this war of words: Cummings took after one of Trump’s appointed miens, the head of ICE, and called the ICE chief and his immigration housings in effect the czar of concentration camps, suggesting that the ICE head was nothing but a Nazi.
Thus, this battle really started because Trump is both loyal and accurate, while Cummings appears to be neither. Also, where Cummings’ constituents are concerned, he seems to know no shame.
If Cummings would only refer to The Art of the Deal, one of Trump’s first books, he would see that Trump ascribed “loser” status, not “racist status,” to those who sold or tried to sell their cars without first cleaning them up. His criticism of parts of Cummings’ district as being squalid and rat-infested has nothing to do with “racism,” and this point was saliently made in Trump’s earlier book that a slovenly practice that leads to a poor result is both unwise and fundamentally poor business sense.
And only a “loser” would subscribe and repeat it, especially if no good result was forthcoming.
If Rep. Cummings has indeed tried for the last 25 years to improve the livability of his district, he has failed. If he were a man of honor, he’d resign immediately and would ask someone who supports Trump’s ideas, and with Trump’s gumption, to replace him.
