Rep. Elijah E. Cummings during a news conference to introduce H.R.1, the "For the People Act," on the U.S. Capitol on Friday, January 4, 2019, in Washington, D.C.Famous Americans who hail from Baltimore include F. Scott Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Babe Ruth, Gertrude Stein, musicians Frank Zappa and Tupac Shakur, late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, writer H.L. Mencken and Francis Scott Key, author of the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
In the wake of his tweets, Trump has drawn criticism from lawmakers on the left and the right. Republican Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan called the attacks "outrageous and inappropriate," and even Rep. Mark Meadows -- one of Trump's closest allies on Capitol Hill and a friend of Cummings -- tried to cool tempers by declaring that neither man is a racist.
(MORE: Trump condemned by House for Twitter attacks against congresswomen) "Both love America," Meadows said of Trump and Cummings. "I think, if we put aside partisanship with investigations, we can find bipartisan solutions that will benefit not only Chairman Cummings’ district but the country as a whole. I’m committed to working to that end with both of them."
Trump said Cummings, chair of the House Oversight Committee -- which has been investigating his administration, including Trump's family -- to Baltimore instead to look into the president's unsubstantiated claims that Baltimore has "wasted billions" of dollars.
"They ought to take that beautiful waste of an Oversight Committee, go down to Baltimore and other Democratic-run cities and take a look, see if you can find the billions that have been stolen," Trump said. ABC News asked the White House for comment.
Trump, who has not visited Baltimore as president, said he will visit the city at the "right time."
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