President Trump tweets about Elijah Cummings and Baltimore, and Democrats rush to declare racism. And President Obama finally, at long last, chimes in. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, where I talk about what happens when President Trump watches Fox and Friends and decides he needs to watch it, and then decides to tweet about it. And then the media immediately labels it racist. And it turns out, it's not even racist at all. It's just bad, plain and simple: President Trump doesn't actually care. He just likes to tweet. And the media loves to call him a racist because they think he's a racist, because he's tweeting about something they think is racist, and so they call him racist. But is that tweet racist? Or is it just over-the-top and over the point? And is it even helpful? Is it even useful at all? Or are all of his tweets useless? I'll tell you what, they're just bad. And that's why they're not helpful at all, because they don't actually make any sense at all except when it comes from someone who actually cares about what he's actually doing something important, and cares about something important and wants to do something about it and doesn't have a clue what he should be doing or cares about what he s actually doing or doesn't care about about . What's the problem with this tweet, you ask the question, and you get the answer you want to know what it s going to do about it, right? or do you want him to do what s he s gonna do or not do with it or does he s this tweet s ? do you have a chance to do with that tweet or not? and he s just not do it, or is he just not doing it? to do it and just not getting it ? or is it too much of that tweet enough or just not enough of it s just too much or isn't doing it enough is that s too much s not enough s or too little s and not enough and or that s not enough, or not enough? , etc etc and so on and so much of this tweet is just not good enough, you know, not enough enough, right enough, is he s not doing enough?
00:00:50.000He was watching a segment on Fox and Friends about the shortcomings of Baltimore.
00:00:53.000And in particular, he was very upset at Representative Elijah Cummings, who is one of the congresspeople who is now calling for President Trump's impeachment.
00:01:00.000And this led President Trump to sound off Donnie from Queens on the air, quote.
00:01:05.000Representative Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men and women of Border Patrol about conditions at the southern border, when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous.
00:01:15.000His district is considered the worst in the United States.
00:01:19.000As proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient, and well-run, just very crowded.
00:01:24.000Cumming district is a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess.
00:01:28.000If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place.
00:01:33.000And then he concluded, along these lines, So, the media immediately jump all over this.
00:01:36.000How could President Trump label Elijah Cummings a bad congressperson?
00:01:38.000and it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.
00:01:41.000No human being would want to live there.
00:02:02.000First off, when President Trump tweets this kind of stuff, it's not helpful.
00:02:05.000The reason that it's not helpful, generally, is not because he's not putting his focus in the right place.
00:02:09.000It's because he doesn't actually care.
00:02:10.000I mean, President Trump is not coming up with an inner-city policy for Baltimore and then saying, listen, Baltimore has been a failing mess for decades on end.
00:02:47.000But were President Trump's tweets useful to the American public discourse?
00:02:50.000I think that we would already know that by now.
00:02:53.000President Trump's tweets come in a few different shades.
00:02:55.000One is useful, where he's sort of informing you about the economy, or where he is saying that certain things are unacceptable in terms of foreign policy.
00:03:01.000And then there's things that are useful, but overwrought.
00:03:05.000Right, certain things where he goes over the point, but what he's saying is actually kind of true.
00:03:15.000Now, the media have declared that all of Trump's tweet types are the last.
00:03:19.000That every single tweet that Trump issues is the last kind of tweet.
00:03:22.000All of them are racist, all of them are bigoted, all of them are sexist, all of them are homophobic.
00:03:26.000And so this particular tweet, in which he is ripping into a specific congressperson, for a specific congressperson's failing, and that person's district, That is now considered racist.
00:03:35.000And so the media lose it and they call all of this racist.
00:04:21.000It is not his job to govern the city of Baltimore.
00:04:23.000It's generally the job of congresspeople with regard to their local areas to bring home the bacon, which Cummings actually has done.
00:04:28.000The problems in Baltimore are local government related.
00:04:33.000They've had three mayors in like four years.
00:04:34.000All of them ousted for one form of corruption or another.
00:04:38.000With that said, the fact that President Trump is ripping on Cummings and the Democrats with regard to Baltimore, he's on fairly solid ground there.
00:04:52.000When Trump says it, all of a sudden racist.
00:04:54.000Get to more of that in just one second.
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00:07:11.000And Trump says, someone please explain to Nancy Pelosi, who was recently called racist by those in her own party, that there is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that Congressman Elijah Cummings has done a very poor job for his district in the city of Baltimore.
00:07:40.000Okay, you may think that it's racist just because he is talking about a largely black city with a black congressperson, but he would say this about white people.
00:07:47.000He would, and he has in the past, as I will show you.
00:08:00.000He's attacking him because he doesn't like him.
00:08:02.000And Elijah Cummings happens to be black.
00:08:04.000And his city happens to be an incredibly poorly run city where people have been suffering for decades from the effect of terrible, terrible governance.
00:08:27.000That is also including a lot of the rebuilt areas that are government areas.
00:08:31.000If you're talking about the worst precincts of Baltimore, which is what people think of when they think of Baltimore, those places are truly horrific.
00:08:44.000He says, speaking of failing badly, okay, here's an example of President Trump ripping on a white lady who happens to live in a white district that also happens to be turning into a hellhole, right?
00:08:54.000President Trump said, speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosi's district in San Francisco?
00:09:24.000As we will see, there are many folks on the Democratic side of the aisle who have said the same sorts of things about Baltimore and even have said the same sorts of things about Elijah Cummings.
00:10:17.000I mean, if you're attributing racism to these comments, As we will see, in any context, it is impossible to understand Trump's behavior outside of the context of who President Trump is and the kind of stuff that he does.
00:10:31.000I remember back during the campaign, there was this big blow up over President Trump supposedly mocking a disabled reporter.
00:10:38.000He was going after a reporter for the New York Times, and he made some hand motions that looked as though he was mocking the reporter's disability, and he kind of made some weird noises with his mouth, and everybody, including me, immediately jumped to the conclusion that the president was, at that point, ripping into him because of his disability, and it was ugly, and it was not pretty.
00:10:55.000And then, there was a video that came out, and it was a compilation of President Trump making fun of people.
00:10:59.000And as it turns out, he does that weird voice and the weird hand motions whenever he's making fun of somebody that he doesn't like, or at least many times.
00:11:06.000And yet that myth has sort of persisted about Trump.
00:11:13.000But being a jerk and being a racist are not necessarily the same thing.
00:11:16.000Saying a jerky thing and saying a racist thing are certainly not the same thing.
00:11:19.000And saying a true thing and saying a racist thing are not the same thing either.
00:11:23.000Okay, so President Trump then continues on this, doubling down on the double down.
00:11:26.000He says, Elijah Cummings has had his chance to address it.
00:11:29.000Crime and conditions in Baltimore for decades, he hasn't gotten it done.
00:11:32.000Quoting Pete Hegseth from Fox & Friends.
00:11:34.000And then Trump says, how can you get it done when he just wants to use his Oversight Committee to hurt innocent people and divide our country?
00:11:39.000Again, this is the part where I say Trump is not being sincere.
00:11:42.000So you're seeing some Trump defenders today go, well, no, he actually cares about what's happening in Baltimore.
00:12:54.000Okay, Elijah Cummings has been a congressperson for a failing district for decades on end.
00:13:00.000And then President Trump, of course, turns it up to 11, because if the spinal tap, if the spinal tap speaker only goes up to 10, he's got to find the 11.
00:13:22.000Again, he keeps going back to this oversight stuff.
00:13:24.000He keeps going back to the, which again, demonstrates he doesn't care about what's actually happening in Baltimore, so long as he can use it to slam Cummings.
00:14:10.000And then he says, under the Trump administration, he repeats, African-American unemployment is the lowest best in the history of the United States.
00:14:16.000No president has come close to doing this before.
00:14:18.000I also created successful opportunity zones waiting for Nancy and Elijah to say thank you, Mr. President.
00:14:23.000Again, this kind of personal petty kind of stuff.
00:14:25.000Why should Nancy and Elijah say thank you, Mr. President?
00:14:27.000How about you just did what you were supposed to do for the country, right?
00:15:30.000Therefore, he says stuff about Baltimore.
00:15:31.000Democrats claim racism, not because what Trump is doing here is actually racist.
00:15:36.000They're doing this because what they hope to run on in 2020 is, again, Trump is an evil, terrible, very bad racist.
00:15:41.000Drive out the black vote in the same way that Barack Obama did in 2012.
00:15:44.000Hope to win a massive victory in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan by turning out particularly minority voters in heavily urban areas.
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00:17:07.000He says, Mr. President, I go home to my district daily.
00:17:10.000Right, because you live in Washington, D.C., so it's like not that far commute.
00:17:14.000He says, each morning I wake up and I go and I fight for my neighbors.
00:17:17.000It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch, but it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.
00:17:23.000Just yesterday, I held a hearing on the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs and the financial hardships that our families across the nation and in Baltimore are facing.
00:17:31.000Mr. President, we can address this together.
00:17:33.000Two years ago, I went to the White House to ask you to endorse my bill to let the government negotiate directly for lower drug prices.
00:17:40.000You told me then that you supported the legislation and that you would work with me to make it happen.
00:18:02.000I mean, Cummings, I got to tell you, I think that Cummings has actually handled himself In many cases on the oversight committee with a lot more decency than other Democrats have.
00:18:12.000I mean, there have been situations where Cummings has actually stepped into the fray and stopped people from attacking, for example, Mark Meadows, with whom he is friends.
00:18:20.000So I'm not going to smack Cummings for that response.
00:20:29.000So when he says that he's only talking about black and brown people, black and brown areas, he's specifically talking about rat infestation.
00:20:37.000OK, and he was using that specifically reacting to a segment on Fox and Friends that was dealing with rat infestation in Baltimore.
00:20:46.000So again, you take President Trump out of context and read him in the worst possible light, you're going to come up with the worst possible solution, of course.
00:20:52.000But when you actually read it in the context in which it was meant, he watches a Fox & Friends segment about Elijah Cummings, and then that segment talks about rat infestation in Baltimore, and then he tweets about Elijah Cummings and rat infestation in Baltimore.
00:21:04.000It's hard for me to go to, this is obviously him being a racist and talking about infestation because he hates black people.
00:21:10.000It's again, that is, that's deliberately missing the story, but that's what the media do these days.
00:21:14.000So the mayor of Baltimore jumped in also.
00:21:17.000The mayor of Baltimore, you want to talk about people who have not done their jobs.
00:21:19.000The mayor of Baltimore would be the guy, right?
00:21:21.000Elijah Cummings has basically done his job to the extent that he's brought money back to his district.
00:21:25.000That's what federal Congress people do.
00:21:28.000But the local governance in Baltimore has been a bleep show since forever.
00:21:32.000Going all the way back to the days of the wire and long before.
00:21:35.000The mayor, Bernard C. Jack Young, tweeted out, it's completely unacceptable for the political leader of our country to denigrate a vibrant American city like Baltimore and to viciously attack U.S.
00:21:44.000Representative Elijah Cummings, a patriot and a hero.
00:21:48.000Listen, again, I don't think that it's worthwhile for the president to denigrate Baltimore.
00:22:13.000There's a lot of talk about how this is all part of a grand strategy by the president, and it's really this brilliant diabolical strategy.
00:22:19.000We are seeming to accept the premise that it's actually useful for him politically to rile up these racial tensions, to use white identity politics.
00:22:26.000He has certainly used them for a long time now, ever since he announced he was running for president.
00:22:31.000It's not actually clear that this was going to work, especially in 2020.
00:23:33.000Representative Cummings has been busy revealing the failures of the Trump administration and exposing the greed of Trump's friends in the pharmaceutical industry.
00:23:39.000And our racist president doesn't like it.
00:23:41.000Again, apparently it is racist to criticize Baltimore, according to Bernie Sanders.
00:23:45.000And now, As it turns out, a few people historically have criticized Baltimore.
00:24:36.000OK, so meanwhile, the media, of course, continue along this path.
00:24:41.000So the CNN has a long report today all about people reacting to President Trump.
00:24:45.000It's titled Baltimore Stands Up for Its City After Trump Tweets No Human Being Would Want to Live There.
00:24:51.000Then they say the president's tirade was directed at House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, who represents Maryland's 7th congressional district in the House, and recently lambasted conditions at the border.
00:25:00.000Trump's attack against Cummings was the latest verbal assault against a minority member of Congress who is a frequent critic of the president.
00:25:06.000Okay, again, it's the media who keeps saying that he only does this to minority members of Congress.
00:25:10.000He has made fu- He called Adam Schiff a pencil neck.
00:25:17.000He has nicknames for everyone he doesn't like.
00:25:20.000So everybody reacts to all of this, and they react by suggesting that the president is acting racist and his criticism of Baltimore is racist.
00:25:27.000The Baltimore Sun's editorial board published a response highlighting aspects of the city they felt the president left out.
00:25:31.000The beauty of Inner Harbor, the history of Fort McHenry, the prominence of Johns Hopkins Hospital, the national dependency on the Social Security Administration, which is housed in Baltimore.
00:25:40.000And it surely wasn't the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average, the board wrote.
00:25:46.000Better to have some verbin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
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00:28:44.000So what did you find was going on in Cummings District?
00:28:48.000You know, there is a crisis at the border, but there's also a crisis in Baltimore.
00:28:52.000And I don't think many people realize this, but Congressman Cummings represents the most dangerous district in America.
00:28:58.000There's abandoned row homes filled with trash, homeless addicts, empty needles that they abused.
00:29:04.000And it's really right next door, so it's attracting rodents, cockroaches, you name it.
00:29:10.000But, you know, to have Congressman Cummings talk about the situation at the border is just, it's laughable because the conditions in his own district, and a lot of people said he hasn't even been there in a while, are atrocious.
00:29:21.000And not to mention, those that live there, I didn't find anyone that said they were Okay, so that was the segment that let all this off, okay?
00:29:29.000Then, Kimberly Klasick tweeted out a bunch of these videos.
00:29:32.000And so she tweeted out a picture of the trash.
00:30:11.000Are we supposed to pretend that Baltimore is wonderful?
00:30:14.000That it's a great place to live for the bulk of residents who live there?
00:30:17.000Is that just something we're supposed to go along with?
00:30:20.000Again, you can go along with the median average income routine, but you are including in that routine all the people who get paid to teach at Johns Hopkins.
00:30:26.000Median does not actually describe the conditions of people who are living at the lower end.
00:30:30.000The same people who are declaring that America is bifurcated between rich and poor are ignoring exactly that happening in the city of Baltimore, where democratic governance has been responsible for decay and collapse for decades on end.
00:30:41.000There are certain areas that are sponsored by the government, like the harbor.
00:30:44.000That have been beneficiaries of government largesse.
00:30:48.000But a lot of the folks who are living there have not benefited from that largesse.
00:30:52.000I'm not the only one pointing this out.
00:30:55.0002018, then the mayor, Catherine Pugh, on Fox 5.
00:30:59.000She was ripping the, wait for it, rat infestation in Baltimore, talking about how she can smell the rats in Baltimore.
00:31:17.000But, and this is why I think people lose their minds over it, but it is also true that just because Trump said it doesn't make it wrong or racist.
00:31:25.000It doesn't make it a-factual or anti-factual or racist.
00:31:29.000Here's Catherine Pugh, the mayor of Baltimore at the time.
00:31:32.000About a year ago, city leaders identified some of the city's most violent neighborhoods.
00:32:33.000Hey Fox, FoxBaltimore.com, May 17, 2017, quote, A Project Baltimore investigation has found five Baltimore City high schools and one middle school do not have a single student proficient in the state-tested subjects of math and English.
00:33:16.000The city's scary record of 343 homicides in 2017 affirms the city's well-known reputation as a dangerous place to live.
00:33:23.000Even if 2018 has fewer homicides, it doesn't take a fortune teller to predict that this year's homicide rate will still be high.
00:33:29.000Until the city substantially reduces its homicide and other crime rates, people will continue to view the city as dangerous and be reluctant to stay or move here.
00:33:45.000The city's outrageous property tax of $2.24 per $100 of a property's assessed value is more than double its surrounding jurisdictions, Baltimore County and Arendelle.
00:33:56.000The city's burdensome property tax on homeowners explains why the city has more renters than homeowners.
00:34:01.000The city's high income tax is 3.2%, the maximum allowed by law.
00:35:33.000Not everything that Trump says is racist.
00:35:35.000And just because Trump said it doesn't make it racist.
00:35:38.000Obviously, we'll get to more of that more on the illustrious recent history of Baltimore, which apparently is a wonderful, thriving area, specifically because Trump said it isn't.
00:35:48.000I mean, Trump is like, he, I swear, he treats the media and the Democrats the same way that I sometimes treat my son when he won't eat.
00:35:56.000And when my son won't eat, I'll say, don't eat my, don't eat my food.
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00:37:48.000Baltimore's population reached a near 100-year low last year.
00:37:52.000They say, well, that would be the high property taxes, the fact that there's extraordinary levels of crime in the city, Quote, the city's public school system is a disaster.
00:38:01.000If anyone thinks a family would move to the city or stay in the city because of its public school system, they have another think coming.
00:38:07.000The city's public school enrollment is on the decline.
00:38:09.000The city's aged infrastructure is terrible.
00:38:12.000The city's random water main breaks, spontaneous sinkholes, desperately needed roadwork means the cash strapped city faces many repairs.
00:38:18.000With costs lurking to fix its dilapidated infrastructure, the money to fund these repairs will either be taken from other services or city residents will have to pay higher taxes.
00:38:27.000The mayor and largely part-time city council are fiscally irresponsible.
00:38:33.000The mayor gets paid $180,000 a year, the city council president $120,000 a year, the city council VP $77,000 a year, and 13 others $69,000 a year, plus all have benefits and all have paid support staff, and they passed a law that entitles elected officials to receive an automatic 2.5% raise if the city budget provides money for union employee raises.
00:38:54.000Baltimore's elections do not change the direction of the city.
00:38:57.000In the 2016 city general election, the mayor and council members all promised change, but the city is in the same or worse shape since the election.
00:39:07.000This is a writer from Baltimore Island named David Platcher, last year in the Baltimore Sun.
00:39:12.000Here also, Baltimore Sun, September 25th, 2018.
00:39:15.000Luke Broadwater and Ian Duncan, quote, neighborhoods are crying out.
00:39:19.000Baltimore has highest homicide rate of US big cities.
00:39:22.000Baltimore had the worst homicide rate among the nation's 50 largest cities last year, the second highest violent crime rate overall, according to new data from the FBI.
00:39:29.000This is the place that is being called Utopia today because President Trump said it's a bad place to live.
00:39:35.000The grim news was the latest reminder of the sustained cycle of violence that has gripped the city since 2015, when the annual number of homicides soared above 300 for three consecutive years after the unrest that followed Freddie Gray's death from injuries suffered in police custody.
00:39:50.000Just last year, PBS aired an actual documentary, it was called Rat Film, about Baltimore, talking about how the city was infested by rats.
00:40:00.000The Baltimore Sun reported, quote, Rat Film, a documentary that takes the decades-long fight waged against Baltimore's rat population and uses it as a lens through which to look at how the city has addressed myriad social issues over the decades, airs tonight on PBS.
00:40:16.000But if President Trump says it's rat-infested, then he means black people, according to the left.
00:40:22.000In 2016, the Baltimore Sun ran an op-ed the day after President Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 election, talking about how Baltimore should be declared a disaster and rebuilt from the ground up.
00:40:35.000And yet now we are supposed to believe, obviously.
00:40:38.000That Baltimore is a wonderful city because President Trump has declared it not so.
00:40:42.000Because President Trump declared that Baltimore is in fact a bad place to live and reasonable people don't want to live there.
00:40:48.000Because of that, Baltimore is now great.
00:40:50.000Okay, Baltimore has been horribly governed for years.
00:40:54.000We all remember the Freddie Gray riots in 2015.
00:41:00.000And that was mainly black folks burning down areas in which lots of black folks lived.
00:41:04.000There was a black city council, a black police chief, a majority black police force, and a black mayor, and everybody was talking about white privilege.
00:41:17.000It's so horribly governed that in the middle of those riots, over the death of Freddie Gray,
00:41:22.000who allegedly was was picked up by the police on some crime after he tried to run and then put in the back of the van and then he wasn't properly handcuffed and so he was like jostled in the back of the van there were accusations the police killed him those accusations were never proved instead what it seems is that he sort of fell over and broke his neck it's a tragic terrible story riots ensued because supposedly the police are viciously and brutally racist despite the fact that again the police force the police chief was black and majority of the city's police force is black
00:41:49.000And despite that, the mayor of Baltimore at the time, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, held a press conference in which she specifically suggested that she was going to give rioters room to riot.
00:42:00.000And you're going to tell me this is a well-governed city?
00:42:03.000I made it very clear that I worked with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech.
00:42:18.000It's a very delicate balancing act because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, We also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.
00:42:35.000And we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.
00:42:44.000Okay, Trump doesn't have solutions, and Trump didn't provide solutions, and Trump isn't talking about solutions, but his diagnosis of the problem is not incorrect, obviously.
00:42:52.000You had the mayor of the city talking about letting rioters riot.
00:42:58.000It's been horribly governed for decades.
00:43:00.000Again, HBO had a very long-running show called The Wire, many consider it the best show in TV history, specifically about the corruption and inability of anybody to do anything about how horrible Baltimore is.
00:43:17.000You know, in fact, there is a person in the media, obviously a vicious racist, obviously a terrible vicious racist, who used to ask Elijah Cummings directly whether this was a Democratic failure and whether Democrats had failed to govern this place properly.
00:43:30.000After all, this is Cummings' district.
00:43:32.000Now, I've been told that if you say that Elijah Cummings has done a bad job for Baltimore, this means you're a racist.
00:44:05.000You know, it's not about personalities, it's about policy.
00:44:08.000And you know, and I know, that a lot of the policies coming down from Washington, coming down from the state actually too, but coming from Washington, are not necessarily kind to urban areas, particularly here lately.
00:44:23.000Okay, so it's obviously because of the urban problems coming down from the federal government at the time, led by Barack Obama.
00:45:09.000Well, it turns out, as per our usual arrangement, I am correct.
00:45:12.000Liam Stack, writing for the New York Times, August 3rd, 2017.
00:45:15.000New Hampshire politicians criticized President Trump after a transcript of a phone call with the President of Mexico published on Thursday showed he called the state a, quote, drug-infested den.
00:45:25.000Now, there are very few whiter states in America than New Hampshire.
00:45:30.000The remark came during his comments on the drug trade, criminal gangs, and how he said they affected the state, according to a transcript of the January 27th call published by the Washington Post.
00:45:39.000The drug lords in Mexico are knocking the hell out of our country.
00:45:41.000Trump told President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, quote, they're sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, up in New Hampshire.
00:45:48.000I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den, is coming from the southern border.
00:45:53.000This, of course, led a lot of people to criticize him, but not call him racist, Greg.
00:45:59.000Governor Chris Sununu, who is a Republican, said the president is wrong, is disappointing, his mischaracterization of this epidemic ignores the great things this state has to offer.
00:46:07.000The New Hampshire Democratic Party tweeted out a picture of one area of New Hampshire that's very pretty, said, how about this, Donald Trump, does this seem like a drug-infested den?
00:46:19.000I've been told he only says infested about black and brown people, not about, you know, the whitest area in the United States, New Hampshire.
00:46:40.000Everyone on the right is called a racist, which is why so many people on the right are very hesitant to go along with the left's definition of racism, because the left's definition of racism is basically, I disagree with you.
00:46:51.000But in this particular case, he didn't say anything racist.
00:46:54.000In this particular case, he did not say anything racist.
00:46:56.000And people on the left are jumping on, this is racist, because this is part of the broader overarching narrative that Trump is a racist, and the Republican Party is a racist, and if you vote for Trump, then you're a racist.
00:47:12.000It's a bold move, Cotton, continuing to suggest that everyone who is thinking about voting for Trump is inherently a racist, and that everything Trump says is racist.
00:47:37.000A person who has called Jews diamond merchants and suggested in the middle of a racial fray that if you wanted to fight him, you pin back your yarmulke and come on over to his house.
00:47:47.000A person who was involved with the 1991 Crown Heights riots that ended with the murder of an Orthodox Jew named Yankel Rosenbaum.
00:47:53.000Al Sharpton is now being deployed to Baltimore, where hasn't he done a lot of good in Baltimore, Al Sharpton?
00:47:58.000Hasn't he done a lot of good for the United States, that racial con artist Al Sharpton?
00:48:02.000Donald Trump, by the way, ripping into Al Sharpton, this is well deserved.
00:48:04.000He says, I must have known, I have known Al for 25 years, went to fights with him and Don King, always got along well.
00:48:38.000Seth Mandel has a piece about Al Sharpton in the Washington Examiner talking about the long history of Al Sharpton.
00:48:47.000Just, he has been responsible for an enormous amount of suffering, Al Sharpton, ranging from the Tawana Browley hoax, all the way through the Crown Heights riots of 1991, to the Freddie's Fashion Mart burning of 1997, 1998.
00:49:06.000And it's worth noting that Sharpton's return to respectability was pushed by none other than Barack Obama, who really tried to bring him in-house Barack Obama, by the way, is sounding off on all this too, as though President Obama was not divisive on racial matters.
00:49:20.000The first major statement on race he made as President of the United States was to declare that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting Henry Louis Gates, a Harvard professor, who was standing outside his house without his keys, trying to bang and get in, wouldn't show them ID, and screaming.
00:49:35.000Barack Obama tweeted out, I've always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration.
00:49:38.000He's talking about Some 145 black members of his administration who wrote an op-ed over the weekend talking about how Trump is mean and cruel.
00:49:46.000He says, I've always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration.
00:49:49.000But more than what we did, I'm proud of how they're continuing to fight for an America that's better.
00:49:55.000Barack Obama was a racially polarizing president.
00:49:57.000He was, particularly in his second term.
00:49:58.000This is true in everything from Trayvon Martin, who could have been his son, to the Baltimore riots, to the Ferguson riots.
00:50:05.000Barack Obama was a divisive racial president, so now he's injecting himself back in.
00:50:09.000Man, if you think 2019 is ugly, wait until we hit 2020.
00:50:12.000We are a year and a half away from this election, guys.
00:50:15.000If things are this hot and we're a year and a half away from the election, man, are things gonna get ugly by the time we actually hit that election.
00:50:24.000The left is declaring that this is all part of Trump's race-baiting strategy.
00:50:27.000There's a piece today by a New York Times columnist named Kevin Cruz, a professor of history at Princeton, who's very good at doing bad history, talking about how President Trump is just like George Wallace of Alabama.
00:50:38.000You know, except for the whole President Trump doesn't stand in the doorways of schools and declare segregation forever.
00:51:08.000And when you declare everything racist, it makes most Americans think that your definition of racism is itself overbroad and makes people less likely to listen to you.
00:51:16.000Alrighty, time for a quick thing that I like and then a thing I hate.
00:51:34.000I have yet to meet a human that Kevin actually likes, but He is also a terrific writer.
00:51:39.000Maybe the best American writer on the right.
00:51:43.000His command of language is fantastic, it's colorful, it's creative.
00:51:46.000Well, he was hired by the Atlantic because he has all of these things.
00:51:49.000And then, within like three days, Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a spineless, pathetic, pusillanimous wimp, and was before he hired Kevin Williamson, he fired Kevin Williamson at the behest of some of the people in his company who said, how could we hire Kevin Williamson?
00:53:10.000Remember when we learned just a few minutes ago, they're not allowed to say infested?
00:53:13.000Because if you say that Baltimore is infested, that means you're talking about black and brown people, allegedly.
00:53:18.000Well, what about this article from the Washington Post today?
00:53:23.000So I guess the rule is you can talk about infestations in Baltimore so long as Jared Kushner's company owns apartment complexes that have mice in them.
00:53:32.000But you can't talk about the generalized infestation problem in Baltimore, which, by the way, was declared a top 10 city for rat infestation by Orkin.
00:53:54.000She is supposed to be one of our great leaders.
00:53:55.000She was on CNN with Jake Tapper on Sunday, and Jake, in a very soft way, basically exposed her for what she is, which is a radical anti-Semite.
00:54:03.000So she was talking about Israel, and she suggested a couple of things.
00:54:07.000The second clip of Tlaib is the one that I care about most here.
00:54:12.000Talib is asked about the very oft-made charge that folks who push boycott, divestment, and sanctions from Israel don't care about human rights violations going on in other parts of the world because specifically they don't like Jews.
00:55:08.000Tapper says you could lead this thing.
00:55:09.000Yeah, but there's no movement, which begs the question, why aren't you starting the movement since you are in favor of the movement to boycott Israel?
00:55:17.000Everybody knows that she's a liar, but we're all going to pretend that bigotry only exists on one side of the aisle, and we're going to pretend that stuff that isn't bigotry is bigotry so that we can make that claim.
00:55:25.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:55:28.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.