“If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at.”
You know who said it.
“This is quite simply one of the most appalling and inhuman statements ever uttered by an American president.”
—Rep. Don Beyer
Both morally obscene and factually inaccurate, the president’s comment drew immediate backlash from lawmakers and other observers, one of whom said Trump’s remark will “be remembered as one of the most callous sentiments ever uttered by an American president…. if it’s remembered at all.”