Trump's dark rhetoric about big cities returns to the campaign trail
Donald Trump's trashing of Detroit continues a long-running theme, and where Democrats see a cruel attack, Republicans see a play for suburban and rural voters.
When Donald Trump visited Detroit last week, he unfurled a string of insults.
He compared the city, which is 77% Black, to a developing nation and posited that the “whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins.
If there was any question whether Trump thinks this is good or bad, he quickly clarified.
“You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” the former president said.
Trump’s comments continued a long-running and racially charged message in which he trashes large, Democratic-run cities. Such rhetoric was a staple of his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 2020, when he warned of crime and low-income housing spilling into the suburbs, indulging fears that decades earlier had prompted “white flight” migration from the inner cities.
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