Baltimore's “rat-infested.” Chicago’s “a total disaster.” They're “screwing up New York.” President Trump has had quite the habit of verbally attacking American cities throughout his career.
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00:00Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago.
00:05I'm very embarrassed by what I see in some of our cities.
00:15You look at different places around our country, St. Louis, Ferguson, Baltimore,
00:20Chicago. This is not the America that was handed down to us.
00:24I think it's a shame what's happening in Chicago.
00:26When you look at Los Angeles, when you look at San Francisco,
00:29Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland.
00:31Because we're going to have to do something about Chicago.
00:33Take a look at St. Louis. Horrendous.
00:35Well, at Newark, New Jersey, he ran it right the hell into the ground.
00:39In Chicago, it's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible.
00:42What happened as an example in Oakland was a disgrace to our nation.
00:46I own property in San Francisco. And now areas that you used to think as being,
00:50you know, really something very special, it's terrible.
00:52What the hell is going on in Chicago?
00:54Los Angeles and San Francisco, do you see what's happening to those cities?
00:58Can you even believe it?
00:59I'll tell you, they might be screwing up New York. We got to be careful.
01:03Chicago is a disaster. It's a total disaster.
01:06Look at the city of Detroit. Take a look.
01:08Nearly half of Detroit residents don't work.
01:12Just look at what's happened to Baltimore.
01:14Problems like Chicago.
01:17Chicago is worse than some of the countries you read about in the Middle East,
01:22where there's wars going on.
01:46It is completely unacceptable for the president of the United States of America
01:50to use his considerable power and global voice to attack a vibrant American city.