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September 13, 2019

Baltimoreans Protest Trump's Visit to City He Called "Rat and Rodent Infested"
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President Trump was met with widespread protests Thursday as he traveled
to Baltimore for a House Republican retreat. It was Trump's first visit
to Baltimore since he insulted the city in a July tweetstorm as a
"disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," adding, "no human being
would want to live there." It was part of an attack on House Oversight
Chair Elijah Cummings, one of the most prominent African Americans in
Congress. Thursday's protests against Trump featured a giant inflatable
effigy depicting the president as a rodent clutching a cellphone.


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