Racist, Inhumane, Vile: How MA Responded To Trump's Comments

We won't say it. You already know what "it" is, anyways. President Donald Trump's crass alleged comments regarding El Salvador and African nations is all anyone has been talking about for the past 24 hours.

You knew Trump's comments wouldn't find a safe haven in Massachusetts, where he received only 32 percent of the vote in November. The Globe once ran a page picturing a dystopian future led by President Trump, and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is not only one of Trump's most vocal critics, but a popular choice for a potential 2020 Democratic nomination.

Here's how Trump's comments were covered and received by some of the loudest voices in the Bay State:

The Boston Globe used the salty language in its copy, taken from The Washington Post (which broke the story,) but you had to open the paper to find it. The Globe's story on Trump was on Page A2, titled "Trump's crude reference to other nations ignites a furor." The tease on the front page said the president used a "vulgar term." Kevin Cullen's column was not on the president's tongue, but on the Boston Herald publisher's paychecks.

The Boston Herald chose to publish the word in all its gory glory in an online headline and its Associated Press copy. Kimberly Atkins' column on 'Trump's new low' saw hyphens soften the word's blow, but a sub-headline said the "comment shows his racist nature. Wire copy on civil rights groups slamming Trump also used hyphens, as did a photo caption. Unlike the Globe, you didn't have to use your thumbs to see how the paper was covering the story.

Celtics legend Bill Russell, an 11-time NBA champion who President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, wondered if Trump knew his history.

Warren tweeted that she won't bother calling Trump's comments "racist, vile, and disgusting," instead pointing to a Globe story of a Haitian who left after the earthquake and graduated as a Dorchester high school valedictorian.

U.S. Senator Ed Markey called Trump's comments "inhumane" and said "the color of money isn't the only color @realdonaldtrump cares about."

State senators were vocal in their opposition, including Dorchester Democrat Linda Dorcena Forry. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Forry released a statement calling on Americans to denounce the president's comments and voicing disappointment that the country "saw fit to elect an ignorant-mean spirited, white supremacist to the most powerful office in the world."

"I am really getting tired of having to do this. I have to express first how demoralizing and upsetting it is to have to register my outrage about hateful remarks made by my own president," she wrote. "And then to have to do it again. And again. The president's words are ignorant and repulsive and an affront to decency and to history."

Other officials used more of a paint-by-numbers condemnation of Trump's words. Congressman Richard Neal said in a statement, "President Trump should be ashamed of his comments regarding the people of Haiti, El Salvador and the African nations. His hateful remarks should be condemned in the strongest possible terms. As we prepare to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend there is no place in our society for this divisive, insensitive and hurtful language."

Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's Twitter account was busy, but none of the tweets as of 1:30 p.m. addressed Trump or his comments.

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Photo by Bob Holmes

Materials from the State House News Service were used in this report