The Baltimore Sun fired another shot in the recent debate that has blown up over the city’s chronic rat and garbage problems.
Baltimore Sun reporters Lillian Reed and Scott Dance reported on Baltimore’s extensive history with rats in a Tuesday article titled, “Baltimore has fewer rats than D.C., and other important facts about the city’s long history fighting rodents.”
As the title states, Baltimore does have fewer rats than Washington, D.C., according to a 2018 list of the most rat-infested cities made by the pest control company Orkin.
The reference to D.C. is a veiled shot at President Trump, who thrust Baltimore’s rat problems into the national spotlight while criticizing Democratic Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings over the weekend.
“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous,” Trump tweeted on Sunday, igniting a battle with Democrats that carried through the weekend.
“His district is considered the Worst in the USA, as proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place,” Trump said.
….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019
The Baltimore Sun‘s editorial board entered the fight on behalf of the city Saturday in an editorial titled, “Better to have a few rats than to be one.”
Trump is “the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are ‘good people’ among murderous neo-Nazis,” the editorial says.
