Aren't you glad I didn't go with a picture of Trump here?

Donald Trump’s racist attack on Baltimore as “rat and rodent infested” just got even better as an encapsulation of Trump’s vicious governing style.

The Baltimore Sun reports, “In March, the White House proposed eliminating the Community Development Block Grant, which is the primary funding source for Baltimore’s public housing rat-elimination program among several other housing programs across the city and country.”

Yep. Trump’s administration tried to slash rat-elimination funding and then he attacked the city as rat-infested because one of its members of Congress dared to investigate him. And that member of Congress, Rep. Elijah Cummings, was a leader in the push to keep the Community Development Block Grant (which does more than just deal with rats, by the way).

Baltimore’s rat program is massively successful, with 311 calls about rats dropping by 35% in the last couple of years, while nearby Washington, D.C., has seen a 47% increase.