New York Daily News

Don tweet mocks Cummings break-in

But sez he didn’t mean be a ‘wise guy’

- BY MURI ASSUNÇÃO AND CHRIS SOMMERFELD­T

President Trump appeared to jeer at Elijah Cummings on Friday over a break-in at the congressma­n’s Baltimore home, prompting a call from some of the president’s own advisers to knock it off.

Trump, who’s launched a string of racially fueled social-media attacks against Cummings over the past week, thumbed out a tweet announcing “really bad news!”

“The Baltimore house of Elijah E. Cummings was robbed. Too bad!” Trump posted. the

The president later told reporters he didn’t intend to send a “wise-guy tweet.”

“The tweet itself was really just a repeat of what I heard over the news,” he said.

But Nikki Haley, a staunch Trump supporter who served as his ambassador to the United Nations until this past October, read between the lines.

“This is so unnecessar­y,” she tweeted at Trump.

Meanwhile, Cummings (D-Md.) shared details about the attempted burglary at his home last Saturday morning.

“I was notified of the intrusion by my security system, and I scared the intruder away by yelling before the person gained entry into the residentia­l portion of the house,” Cummings said in a statement to the Daily News. “I thank the Baltimore Police Department for their response and ask that all further inquiries be directed to them.”

Baltimore cops continue to investigat­e the break-in.

A spokesman for Cummings declined to offer a response to Trump’s tweet.

Trump’s latest missive comes on the heels of a relentless social media tirade attacking Cummings, claiming he’s to blame for his congressio­nal district being a “disgusting” and “rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”

Cummings’ Baltimores­panning district is majority African-American.

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