Washington (CNN) House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said President Donald Trump's racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen of color bring back memories of the racism he faced as a child growing up in Baltimore.

"We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community," Cummings told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "As we tried to March to that pool over six days, I was beaten, all kinds of rocks and bottles thrown at me."

The Maryland Democrat said Trump's racist remarks echo the same insults he heard as a 12-year-old boy in 1962, which he said were "very painful."

"The interesting thing is that I heard the same chants. 'Go home. You don't belong here,' he told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

"And they called us the N-word over and over again."