Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) lashed out against President Trump on Wednesday following the administration’s decision to cancel a key immigration program for nearly 60,000 Haitians.
Speaking to a group of advocates and city residents in support of refugees and immigrants, Kenney apparently went off script near the end of his remarks.
“I’m just beside myself with sadness because our president is a bully, our president is a punk, and he just doesn’t get it. I don’t know where he was raised but his family didn’t do a good job raising that guy,” Kenney said, according to a local NBC affiliate.
Prior to his critique of Trump, Kenney was discussing Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a program that gives residency and work permits to around 300,000 foreign nationals from countries that have undergone major disasters.