Donald Trump Jnr has launched a stinging attack on the actor Tom Arnold after he said it was a shame he and his brother Eric's New York apartments had not been burgled yet.
The tit-for-tat exchange came after President Trump tweeted about an attempted robbery at the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose district he had dismissed as 'a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.'
Arnold took a swipe at the president's sons via Twitter, suggesting it was a shame their homes had not been robbed - which prompted Trump Jnr to reply: 'No we just get daily death threats and exploding packages of white powder sent to our homes you piece of garbage.'
Arnold took a swipe at the president's sons via Twitter, suggesting it was a shame their homes had not been robbed - which prompted Trump Jnr to reply: 'No we just get daily death threats and exploding packages of white powder sent to our homes you piece of garbage'
The tit-for-tat exchange came after President Trump tweeted about an attempted robbery at the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose district he had dismissed as 'a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess
Donald Trump Jnr has launched a stinging attack on the actor Tom Arnold after he said it was a shame he and his brother Eric's New York apartments had not been burgled yet
Trump himself was chastised by his own former UN ambassador Nikki Haley for his tweet minimizing the 'really bad news' that an intruder broke into the House of Rep. Elijah Cummings.
But the president insists he wasn't being a 'wise guy' when he blasted out a tweet with the news that concluded: 'Too bad!'
'That was really not meant to be a wise guy' comment, Trump told reporters Friday after his early-morning tweet caused an uproar. 'The tweet was just a repeat of what I heard on the news,' he insisted.
Condemned: Former Trump UN ambassador Nikki Haley rebuked the president on Twitter
Haley, the former South Carolina governor, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2024
Baltimore police say that the home of House Rep. Elijah Cummings was burglarized early Saturday morning. Cummings is seen above on Capitol Hill last week
Haley, who regularly supports Trump but also occasionally cut her own path on matters like condemning Russian malign activities, weighed in by retweeting and explicitly condemning the tweet – a rare feat for a prominent former official.
'This is so unnecessary,' Haley wrote, attaching an upward-looking face emoji.
The attached her comment to Trump, after the president shared the 'really bad news' that Rep. Elijah Cummings – the target of his repeated twitter attacks and slams on Baltimore – had his home burglarized.
But in case there was any doubt Friday about whether Trump took some delight in the burglary, he made his feelings known at the end of his tweet. 'Too bad!' Trump wrote.
Haley's comment immediately prompted speculation about her own future and motives. She has a book coming out in November about 'defending America with grit and grace.'
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway immediately engaged in an effort to swat down Haley.
SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS: Trump tweeted about the burglary of the home of Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings Friday
Trump blasted Baltimore again at a rally in Cincinnati on Thursday
Cummings' home (right) is located in the Druid Heights section of West Baltimore
She retweeted that former diplomat's rejoinder, writing: 'THIS is so unnecessary.' Then, she added: 'Trump-PENCE2020' – making explicit that she viewed Haley's tweet through the lens of presidential politics.
The all-caps for Vice President Mike Pence's name were a reminder that it was Pence, not Haley, who Trump is choosing as his running mate – despite recent speculation to the contrary.
As a former South Carolina governor who gained foreign policy experience and left the Trump administration on her own terms, Haley is also occasionally mentioned as a potential 2024 candidate. Trump himself swatted down rumors that the president might put her on the ticket in 2020.
The burglary Trump apparently made light up occurred in the dead of night in a city that has had its share of robberies and killings.
According to Baltimore police, Cummings' home was burglarized at 3:40 am Saturday – just hours before Trump began teeing off on Cummings and his 'rat-infested' district.
'Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!' Trump wrote Friday morning.
Cummings said in a statement he scared off the intruder by yelling.
The median home value for properties at Druid Heights is slightly more than $195,000
Trump attacked Cummings on Saturday and claimed Baltimore is 'disgusting' and 'rat and rodent infested.' He also said no 'human being' would want to live there, which prompted many to say the tweets were racially motivated
'An individual attempted to gain entry into my residence at approximately 3:40 AM on Saturday, July 27. I was notified of the intrusion by my security system, and I scared the intruder away by yelling before the person gained entry into the residential portion of the house,' he said, Fox News reported.
Trump's needling of Cummings followed a raucous rally in Cincinnati where Trump once again tore into Cummings' hometown of Baltimore.
'No one has paid a higher price for the far left destructive agenda than Americans living in our nation's inner cities, they have paid a dear price. You see what's happening, you see our cities. We spend billions and billions for years and years and its stolen money and it's wasted money and it's a shame,' Trump said.
'For decades, these communities have been run exclusively by Democrat politicians, and it's been total one party control of the inner cities. For 100 years it's been one party control, look at them,' he vented.
Police in Baltimore are investigating a burglary on Saturday at the home of House Rep. Elijah Cummings, it was reported on Thursday.
Trump said Cummings was a 'bully' to Customs and Border Patrol agents and claimed the situations at border facilities are better than in Baltimore, which Cummings represents in Congress
The alleged burglary took place before dawn on Saturday, WJZ-TV reported.
So far, police have not said if there is property missing from the home.
The alleged break-in took place hours before President Trump criticized the powerful Democratic lawmaker on Twitter.
The president sparked outrage and accusations of racism by blaming Cummings for Baltimore being a 'rodent infested mess.'
Cummings' home is a row house located in the Druid Heights section of West Baltimore.
Druid Heights is considered an area that does have a high concentration of rats based on the number of rodent control requests from residents, according to the Baltimore Sun.
The median home value for properties at Druid Heights is slightly more than $195,000, according to Niche.
Median rent in the area is slightly above $1,000.
The web site ranks Druid Heights 159th out of the 225 best neighborhoods for young professionals to live in Baltimore.
Niche ranks the neighborhoods based on a number of factors, including the quality of public schools, the level of crime, accessibility to affordable housing, nightlife options, and diversity.
Druid Heights is also an area where there is moderately high frequency of crime, according to Trulia.
In his first televised comments since the Trump-Cummings row erupted, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (above) said that the dust-up could have a positive impact by bringing the issue of inner city neglect to the forefront of the public discussion
In the last year, Baltimore police have made more than 1,300 arrests in Druid Heights, including 129 burglaries, 143 thefts, and 289 assaults.
In his Twitter rant, Trump also called Baltimore a place where 'no human being would want to live'.
Trump's use of the word 'infested' to describe Baltimore as well as other districts represented by minority lawmakers prompted many to accuse him of racism.
Trump's feud with Cummings entered its fifth day Wednesday when the president tweeted a video of the Congressman referring to Baltimore as a 'drug infested area' to discredit claims that his own comments about the city were racist.
The clip, which appears to be from a congressional hearing in 1999, documents Cummings lamenting the Maryland city's overwhelming drug problems.
The House Oversight Committee Chairman goes on to claim that the city's streets are filled with addicted children who resemble 'zombies'.
'I left my community of Baltimore, a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we're talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children,' Cummings can be heard saying in the clip.
'The same children I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up are now walking around like Zombies. This is only 40 miles away from [Washington DC].'
In relation to Cumming's utterance, Trump tweeted that the footage proves to 'radical left dems' that his indictments of Baltimore as a 'drug-infested area' this week weren't racist as many - including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - had claimed.
His son Don Jr. agreed, insisting that if his father is racist for using the term, then Cummings himself is also 'Obviously racist… Right? Those are the rules!'
Meanwhile, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan told Fox News on Thursday that he believes Trump's tweets were 'inappropriate.'
In his first televised comments since the Trump-Cummings row erupted, Hogan said that the dust-up could have a positive impact by bringing the issue of inner city neglect to the forefront of the public discussion.
'I think it's good that we're paying attention to the problems in Baltimore and I'd like everybody - from the president and his administration to Congress, to work with us at the state level to see what we could do to work together and fix the problem,' the Republican governor said.
Hogan added that the issue of Baltimore is 'deeper' than race.
'I think the reality is deeper,' he said.
'We've failed in our urban areas across the country and Baltimore certainly is a perfect example of that and the leadership has failed for decades and decades.'
Hogan said that Baltimore's mayors deserve a fair share of the blame for how the city has been run.
'I wouldn't put all the blame of Baltimore City on Elijah Cummings but I also think he could do a lot more to help us,' he said.
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