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GORDON wrote: Ok, here's the bad joke Ive been telling for 20 years:

More like Balti-less, amirite?

WASHINGTON—President Trump called on the House Oversight Committee to investigate “corrupt government” in Baltimore, and said he would personally get involved to help if asked by the city’s residents, who he said are “living in hell.”

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Mr. Trump again singled out the Democratic chairman of the committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose Maryland district includes about half of the city and much of two surrounding counties. The president claimed, without citing evidence, that billions of dollars have been “stolen and wasted by people like Elijah Cummings.”

Mr. Cummings hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing. “I will continue to do every day what I am duty-bounded to do—help my constituents to live their best lives and serve as a check on the Executive Branch,” Mr. Cummings wrote on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

“He should take his oversight committee, bring it down to Baltimore and really study the billions and billions of dollars that’s been wasted, stolen,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump added that Baltimore’s residents, especially African-Americans, have been the primary victims of corruption in Baltimore and are “living in hell.” He previously described the city as a place “no human being would want to live.”

Leisher wrote: I wonder if Trump's message would be listened to if Obama had said it? Because he's not wrong about billions being wasted, although how much in Baltimore is questionable. How much of our tax dollars get wasted every year on complete nonsense or go into people's pockets without us seeing a benefit?

Vince wrote: Democrats don't complain about money being wasted. Republicans complain about it, but keep wasting it anyway.

After four days of assailing Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and describing Baltimore as a “living hell,” President Trump was asked to explain his strategy.

“There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy,” he told reporters Tuesday. “It’s very simple.”

TheCatt wrote: “There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy,” he told reporters Tuesday. “It’s very simple.”

Leisher wrote:

TheCatt wrote: “There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy,” he told reporters Tuesday. “It’s very simple.”

Is that the most honest thing ever said in politics?

CUCCINELLI: Well, of course, that poem was referring back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies where people were considered wretched if they weren't in the right class.