President Donald Trump on Monday launched into yet another staggering rant about the supposed failures of blue cities, baselessly arguing during an Oval Office press gaggle that Democrat-run cities “smell,” are riddled with “violent crime” — and are “all dirty.”
“I said it the other day and it maybe doesn’t sound that important, but when a country goes bad — like, look at the blue cities,” Trump said. “What do they have in common, aside from massive crime? Much more crime. The Republicans have very little crime.”
He continued, “But what do the blue cities have in mind? And also, you can say this with nations, when they go bad. The blue cities have something in common: crime, high crime, vicious, violent crime. But what do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy dirty.”
The president went on to argue that the streets in Democrat-run cities “smell,” while the storefronts are “broken” and the trees “are all gross.” He boldly added that “it’s really all of them” after describing all blue cities as a monolith: “Everything about the place is dirty.”
Trump also trashed blue cities last week, when he told the audience at a rally in Milford, Michigan, that people who live in blue cities are “not clean” — and that their “dirty sidewalks” are splattered with “you-know-what” and produce a “terrible smell.”
Trump has deployed thousands of federal agents to blue cities as part of his mass deportations, while spouting dehumanizing lies about immigrants.
Critics on Monday were quick to note that Trump is flat-out wrong, as countless cities in California, Hawaii, Washington, Colorado, New York and other states are run by Democrats — and are touted by travel publications as some of the most beautiful places in America.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) quoted a clip of Trump’s rant with a series of gorgeous photos of his state.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) wrote: “The World Cup in America was hosted mostly by blue cities. Remember how the trump Administration bragged about how great that went?”
The president was also condemned by a flurry of social media users who are not elected officials — and they shredded his argument: