Larry Hogan calls Trump’s tweets attacking Baltimore ‘outrageous and inappropriate’

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Monday weighed in on President Trump’s series of attacks aimed at Baltimore over the weekend.

Hogan, once thought to be a potential GOP primary challenger to Trump, called the president’s comments “outrageous and inappropriate” while appearing on WBAL’s “C4” radio show.

{mosads}He pointed to a speech he gave over the weekend where he discussed the “angry and divisive politics that are literally tearing America apart.“ 

“Enough is enough,” Hogan said. “People are completely fed up with this kind of nonsense. Why are we not focused on solving the problems and getting to work? … Quite frankly, what is the president doing? What is the Congress doing?”

Hogan was reacting to Trump’s string of attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and the city of Baltimore over the weekend in which he sent out more than a dozen tweets bashing the lawmaker and district he represents.

Hogan said he, unlike Washington, is focused on solving the problems that currently plague Baltimore, but acknowledged he could use some assistance.

“What is the president doing and what is Congress doing,” he said. “We’re doing a lot of things, but we sure could use some help from the White House and from the Congress.”

He added that the “past couple of days would’ve been a lot more productive if we were talking about solutions to problems rather than who tweeted what and who called whom by what name. It’s just absurd.”

Trump lashed out several times, calling Baltimore a ”very dangerous & filthy place” where “no human being would want to live.”

He was widely condemned by Democratic lawmakers and officials from Baltimore and Maryland. 

Cummings responded to Trump’s first set of insults Saturday, saying every morning he wakes up “and I go and fight for my neighbors.”

“It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents,” he tweeted.