David Simon, creator of the seminal Baltimore-set TV series The Wire, has called Donald Trump a “simplistic, racist moron” and “a permanent stain on our land”.
The award-winning writer later got into a dispute with a Twitter user who said Trump had not created Baltimore’s problems.
He later expanded on his theme, saying Trump would be terrified if he “stepped out of his limo and found himself suddenly a racial minority”.
In another exchange, Simon explained that The Wire had addressed systemic and historical forces arrayed against his city.