During a three-hour-long Cabinet meeting before the White House press pool on Tuesday, President Donald Trump gabbed about a flurry of topics, railing against Democrats about crime in inner cities, among other policy issues.
Touting his declared crime emergency response in Washington, D.C., and his threat to send the National Guard to majority-Black cities, Trump again called out Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who in recent days has sharply criticized Trump’s signaling that he would send troops on the ground in Baltimore. Moore also invited Trump to join him on a walking tour of the Maryland city, to which the president scoffed.
“First, you’ve got to clean up your crime. I’m not walking in Baltimore right now. Baltimore is a hellhole,” Trump said at the White House as he sat along the roundtable with cabinet members.
Baltimore recently touted a 50-year low in homicides and sharp declines in various categories of crime, including non-fatal shootings and theft.
Trump also repeated a false, yet revised version, of a story he told reporters on Monday about an encounter with Moore at last year’s Army-Navy football game.
“I met this gentleman. I never met him before. [He said], ‘Sir, you’re doing a great job. You’re doing an unbelievable job. Thank you very much,” Trump claimed.
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