Donald Trump, meet Stephen A. Smith.
The last time someone publicly threw our city under the bus, we put the epithet on T-shirts. “Terrible city”? Oh yeah? We jumped to offense about it – thank God the Bucks won the title that year to wash away all that saltiness. Well, almost all of it.
But Stephen A. is a sports pundit who is basically known at this point for hot/bad takes.
It’s time to pick your Milwaukee favorites for the year!
Donald Trump is a former president who will be accepting the Republican nomination for president in this “horrible city” in a swing state that figures to be crucial to his re-election.
It makes his comment Thursday in a meeting with House Republicans – “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city,” according to longtime DC insider Jake Sherman – all the more, well, Trumpy.
The context is being vigorously debated as I write this. Was he talking about Milwaukee’s crime rate? Our election administration? The high concentration of Democratic voters here? As Sherman said in a followup post, “Like always, Trump said what he said and people are going to hear whatever they want to hear.”
Love him or hate him (is there any in between?), everyone knows this is classic Trump. Add it to the pile of evidence that if you tell the guy not to say something, to touch something, to do something, he just can’t help himself but do the opposite.
And I’m sure the screen printers are already scrambling to get their “Horrible City” blue T-shirts to market.
