The Wire's David Simon defends Baltimore against "empty-suit, race-hating fraud" Donald Trump

Let’s be honest, David Simon is an exhausting follow. The Baltimore reporter-turned-creator of The Wire, Treme, The Deuce, and the upcoming The Plot Against America is completely, totally brilliant, but he’s also verbose to a point of self-parody. We used to find it charming, but now we’re one “fuckmook” away from smashing that “unfollow” button. The man just can’t not engage with his trolls. That said, if someone’s going to make uninformed attacks on the city of Baltimore, there are fewer responses we want to see than that of Simon’s, who’s spent his entire life writing about the city’s systemic issues both as a journalist and a TV writer.
On Saturday, our messy president began spewing bile in the direction of Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling Cummings’ Maryland district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being” would want to live after the politician sought to criticize the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border. It didn’t take long for Simon to respond.
“If this empty-suit, race-hating fraud had to actually visit West Baltimore for five minutes and meet any of the American citizens who endure there, he’d wet himself,” Simon tweeted in response to Trump’s screed. It didn’t stop there, either; Simon appeared to respond to just about every MAGA chud trying to defend the president, emphasizing the degree to which Trump cares nothing for the actual complexities of the city’s struggles, the likes of which Simon famously unpacked in The Wire. “It means the president, if he stepped out of his limo and found himself suddenly a racial minority, would wet himself on that fundamental alone. The humanity of those he encountered could not matter to him; only their lack of whiteness and his discomfort. So he won’t come.” Later, he added, “He’s simply used the city and its struggles to chase a Congressman who is black and has criticized him. Trump, a racist deserving of much criticism, can abide neither. He cares nothing about the problems, their complexity, or Baltimore.”