Amazing to watch Democrats go all in for violent criminals and illegal aliens.
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 1, 2025
Do they really not believe in enforcing laws? That's all President Trump is trying to do right now. pic.twitter.com/OhcB0pV0MZ
The great dealmaker weeks earlier had had his bluff, ABC News on August 31 reported
Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore defended his rhetoric against President Donald Trump over crime in his home city of Baltimore amid an escalating feud between the two leaders.
"I have no interest in fighting with the president, but I have an interest in fighting for my communities and fighting for our people," Moore told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz in an interview that aired Sunday.
Earlier this month, Trump offered to send the National Guard into other cities across the country after his law enforcement surge into Washington, D.C., calling Baltimore "so far gone." Moore responded by formally inviting the president to join him and Baltimore officials on a public safety walk.
After the two continued to trade barbs on social media,
Trump rebuked the invitation and renewed his threat to send the National Guard
into Baltimore, calling the city a "hellhole" in the Oval Office on
Tuesday.
"Wes Moore was telling me he wants -- 'I want to walk
with the president.' Well, I said, 'I want to walk with you, too, someday. But
first you've got to clean up your crime," Trump said.
The President's remark obviously made no sense. "First you've got to clean up your crime?" If Trump's purpose is to "clean up crime" (give it a shower?), the time to visit and examine the city of Baltimore is when its crime rate is high, not after it has seriously declined. Trump is saying "you make things better and I'll come and do a photo-op with you."
Realistically, the President is afraid of what he'd see: a city still troubled but one in which crime significantly has declined. If he then decided to send National Guard soldiers into the city, he'd be doing it in a place he learns appears to be on the upswing, which would make his claim that the federal crackdown is unrelated to crime.
Alternatively, the President is refusing to go because he would be uncomfortable on a street with substandard housing, mothers with little children, poor minorities. The man who has found the splendor of the White House inadequate and wants to turn it into the Palace of Versailles would be ay out of his comfort zone. The reality of life in America might be too difficult to encounter for an elderly man in declining health.
The idolization of Donald Trump by his fans and the danger the rest of us recognize in him blinds us to another reality- that our President is pathetic. He's a guy who defines exercise as riding around in a golf cart, bravery as avoiding an STD, and believes bombing Iran makes him a war hero. Then he's asked to walk the streets of Baltimore with a fellow who was awarded the Bronze Star. The contrast would be jarring.
However, an even more pathetic event began on the day after Trump rejected Moore's invitation and called Baltimore a "hellhole." Signing executive orders on August 25
Trump continued his ongoing criticism of Moore and the city of Baltimore for being a "deathbed" with "tremendous crime," before flashing back to an interaction that he described fondly.
"I met him at the Army-Navy game. They said, 'Oh there's Gov. Moore. He'd love to see you.' He came over to me, hugged me, shook my hand, you were there. He said, 'Sir, you're the greatest president of my lifetime,'" Trump said, adding that Moore had told him he was doing a "fantastic job."
Surprise! It didn't happen. Not only did Moore quip "breaking news to everybody but the President is not telling the truth," Fox News tried to convince viewers that Moore had praised Trump- while inconveniently proving he hadn't. Host Will Cain appears to believe that he has caught the governor in a gotcha moment when he runs film of Moore greeting Trump with "Welcome back to Maryland, sir. Welcome back o Maryland. It's great to see you" and after Trump responds, "thank you, sir. It's great to have you back here."
Will Cain plays footage of Wes Moore greeting President Trump at the Army Navy game.
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 25, 2025
Cain: We didn’t hear greatest president ever but we did hear a lot of enthusiasm. Who’s telling the truth? We’ll let you decide pic.twitter.com/dAuElfl1Yf
Oh, my gosh. A governor of a state is pleased that the President of the USA is visiting and Dallas Cowboy fan (of course) Dean Cain tries to prove that he's a hypocrite. (Trump giving the governor a bro-slap and two days later calling his state's largest city a "hellhole" was less notable, evidently.) Cain may be even more pathetic than is his pro football team.
Nonetheless, carrying water for Donald Trump, as are Cain, Jennings, and nearly the entire Republican Party, pales in importance to the actual policies of an authoritarian regime. Governor Moore called Trump's bluff, and virtually no one in the media understood the significance. The President told us, as clearly as he could, that he's not going to visit a major city, to which he is threatening to send armed soldiers to curb crime, precisely because there is so much crime.
When the protests come, there must be soldiers under the President's command to arrest the many while shooting a few. And then, finally, the mainstream media may figure out that crime was never the primary concern of the First Felon.
Wes Moore says he didn't call Trump the greatest president of his lifetime. “Breaking news to everybody but the president is not telling the truth.” pic.twitter.com/E6XgSN2Dpe
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 27, 2025
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