--- title: Trevor Noah Defends Baltimore Rats After Trump Comments description: Trevor Noah is speaking out in defense of Baltimore after Trump called a majority-black district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess." canonical: https://time.com/5638666/trevor-noah-on-trump-baltimore-rats/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-30T15:11:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:44.778Z og:title: Trevor Noah Stands Up for Baltimore's Rats After Trump's Comments og:description: "You know which other cities have rats? All the best cities in the world" og:url: https://time.com/5638666/trevor-noah-on-trump-baltimore-rats/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trevor Noah Stands Up for Baltimore's Rats After Trump's Comments twitter:description: "You know which other cities have rats? All the best cities in the world" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Trevor Noah Stands Up for Baltimore After Trump's Rats Comments  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 30, 2019 3:11 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 30, 2019 3:11 PM UTC In the wake of President Donald Trump calling [Rep. Elijah Cummings’](https://time.com/5637924/elijah-cummings-trump-oversight/) majority-black district in [Baltimore](https://time.com/5637179/baltimore-sun-slams-trump-cummings-op-ed/) a [“disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”](https://time.com/5637161/trump-attacks-majority-black-district-cummings-baltimore/) during a [Saturday morning Twitter tirade](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073965880172544), Trevor Noah is speaking out in defense of the city. During Monday’s episode of _The Daily Show_, Noah argued that Trump’s attack on Baltimore doesn’t actually have anything to do with its rats. “I’m not saying Baltimore doesn’t have rats. Of course it has rats,” he said. “But you know which other cities have rats? All the best cities in the world, all of them. Paris, London, New York — they all have a rat problem. In fact, I’m starting to think that if your city doesn’t have rats, it’s because you live in a boring-a— city and your food sucks.” Noah went on to weigh in on Trump’s role in the escalating debate over race in the United States. “Once again, America is stuck in another debate,” he said. “Many people say Trump’s words are clearly racist, but Trump says it’s the black people who are the true racists because they keep bringing up race every time someone says something racist.” Noah then brought on his alter-ego, Trevor Noah Racism Detective, to solve the case. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5638666/trevor-noah-on-trump-baltimore-rats/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5638666/trevor-noah-on-trump-baltimore-rats/"},"headline":"Trevor Noah Stands Up for Baltimore After Trump's Rats Comments","datePublished":"2019-07-30T15:11:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:44.778Z","description":"\"You know which other cities have rats? All the best cities in the world\"","url":"https://time.com/5638666/trevor-noah-on-trump-baltimore-rats/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Daily Show","TV","Late Night Television","trevor noah","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5638666/trevor-noah-on-trump-baltimore-rats/","name":"Trevor Noah Stands Up for Baltimore After Trump's Rats Comments"}}]}] ```