President Trump said he has no regrets in blasting Rep. Elijah Cummings and the congressman’s “corrupt” city of Baltimore because the criticism is effectively helping African Americans who have to live in such conditions.

“I’m the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” the president said Tuesday at the White House before leaving for Jamestown, Va.

Trump, who over the weekend called Cummings’ Maryland congressional district “rat- and rodent-infested,” alleged that billions of dollars have been “mishandled for many years” and that the Democratic congressman “has been there for a very long time” and has had “an iron hand on it.”

“I’ve received more phone calls than I think on any subject from people of Baltimore and other cities corruptly run by Democrats thanking me for getting involved,” he said. “Those people are living in hell.”