Article snippet: MORE (D-Md.), inflaming racial tensions once again by taking aim at a top African American Democratic lawmaker and parts of the majority-black district he represents. The president on Saturday and Sunday sent more than a dozen tweets assailing Cummings and the city of Baltimore. The weekend started with Trump describing the country's 30th-largest city and surrounding areas as a "very dangerous & filthy place" where "no human being would want to live," and it ended with Trump calling Cummings — the son of sharecroppers in South Carolina — a "racist." It marked the second time in three weeks that Trump targeted a prominent minority Democratic lawmaker and in many ways mirrored how his attacks on Reps. MORE (D-Mass.) played out. In targeting Cummings, the president went after a well-respected, 13-term congressman who leads one of the committees leading investigations into his administration. Trump launched the first of what would be several broadsides against Cummings on Saturday morning. The president may have been agitated by Cummings's resolve to pursue oversight or set off by a Fox News segment that aired Saturday morning that included footage of Cummings's district, which encompasses parts of the city of Baltimore as well as suburban and rural areas. Trump decried Cummings as a "brutal bully" for his fierce critiques of conditions at the southern border and suggested Baltimore "is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA... Link to the full article to read more