Hogan blasts ‘inappropriate’ Trump tweets as ‘nonsense’

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Gov. Larry Hogan, speaking on WBAL radio Monday morning, rebuked President Donald Trump for a series of messages on Twitter denigrating Baltimore and U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings.

Hogan, appearing on the C4 show, criticized Trump’s use of social media and continued to rail against what he describes as a pervasive climate of political polarization.

“The comments are just outrageous and inappropriate,” said Hogan. “Enough is enough. I think people are just completely fed up with this kind of nonsense. Why are we not focused on solving the problems and getting to work instead of who’s tweeting what and who’s calling who what kind of names?”

Trump, in messages over the weekend, criticized Cummings, who is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The president called Cummings’ district and Baltimore in particular “rodent infested.”

….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019

Hogan called on Trump and Congress to work to find solutions for the violence and other problems affecting Baltimore and other cities.

“Quite frankly, what is the president doing?” said Hogan. “What  is Congress doing?”

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, speaking on CNN, praised Hogan as a “good partner with me in the city of Baltimore” but said he’d like to see the Republican governor “be a little more forceful on President Trump  and his attack on one of the largest cities of Maryland, which he (Hogan) is the governor of.”

Hogan did not respond to Trumps remarks on social media and said he had not heard Young’s comments.

“You can’t find another Republican governor in America that’s been more critical of the President on so many topics,” said Hogan. “Me, jumping in with a tweet to attack a tweet that was attacking someone else doesn’t help the problem.”

“We’ve got serious problems that need to be addressed, said Hogan. “Tweeting or reacting to someone else’s tweet and going back and forth is not really the solution. My position is not going to change, and you can criticize me all you want.”