President Donald Trump's series of tweets from over the weekend are generating strong reaction from the Baltimore community and leaders.On Saturday, the president described Baltimore as a "rat- and rodent-infested mess." President Trump also called on Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-District 7, to focus on his district rather than conditions at the southern border.That attack on Cummings started nearly a week before the president's comments with a series of tweets by Baltimore County Republican Kimberly Klacik. She responded to an interview with Cummings on ABC's "This Week" in which Cummings told host George Stephanopoulos that his constituents tell him they're "scared of their leader."On Monday, Klacik tweeted a response to the interview, saying: "Daily shootings in Cummings' district and he says his constituents are afraid of the president?"She followed with a series of tweets saying people she talks to in west Baltimore are not afraid of President Trump.On Friday, she then tweeted videos showing abandoned homes and trash in west Baltimore, writing: "Rats and roaches are a problem in almost every home. Illegal immigrants at the border live in better conditions than Americans in west Baltimore."Then on Saturday, Klacik appeared on "FOX and Friends." She did not return calls from the 11 News I-Team seeking comment.That's when President Trump tweeted: "Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of border patrol about conditions at the southern border, when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the USA."As proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient and well run, just very crowded."Cumming (sic) district is a disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place."Shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, the president tweeted: "Elijah Cummings never even went to the Southern Border and then he screams at the very good people who, despite Congresses (sic) failure to fix the Loopholes and Asylum, make it work (crossings are way down and the Wall is being built). Even with zero Dem help, Border getting strong!"Baltimore's numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee!"Reaction swift to president's tweetsThe Rev. Al Sharpton and former Maryland Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele didn't mince words during a press conference Monday morning. Both condemned the president's tweets and invited him to the 7th District for a tour.The political pushback was unrelenting, as were the president's tweets bashing Baltimore and Cummings. Many view the tweets as a racist attack. Gov. Larry Hogan vented on WBAL NewsRadio's "C4 Show.""The comments are outrageous and inappropriate. Enough is enough. People are fed up with this kind of nonsense. Why are we not focused on solving the problems and getting to work? Quite frankly, what is the president doing? What is Congress doing?" Hogan said.Sharpton and Steele, in town for a previously scheduled event at New Shiloh Baptist Church, are taking aim at the president's behavior and Trump calling Sharpton a con man."He has a particular venom for blacks and people of color," Sharpton said. "I'm going to keep making trouble for bigots. As far as me being a con man, if he really thought I was a con man, he would be nominating me for his cabinet."Steele, who went on to chair the Republican National Committee invited the president to take a look at the 7th District for himself."The streets are ready for you. The neighborhoods are ready for you. Folks want to talk to you. So just show up. Put the tweet down, brother, and show up," Steele said.Coincidentally, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns apartment complexes in Baltimore County that have been cited for hundreds of code violations. Some of those properties are mice-infested."Here in Baltimore County, we had to threaten with both significant fines and withholding federal payments to ensure there was compliance in having apartments be livable. So there's a certain irony in having the president attacking a city and region when his own son-in-law was directly involved and his companies were involved in creating conditions where the quality of life was threatened," Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski said.As far as addressing some of the problems, Hogan said he's setting up a meeting with the mayor and police commissioner to discuss the city's new crime-fighting plan. The governor is also looking for help from the Trump administration.Telling a more complete story about BaltimoreThe president's attacks on Baltimore have accelerated an effort to tell a more complete story about the city. Organizers said it's not just an attempt to "gloss over" the bad.Monday has seen multiple efforts to defend the city in the face of the president's weekend-long tirade against the city and its congressman.On his Instagram page, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank posted a video about Baltimore, emphasizing its grit and pride."We grew up in this city, made our name in this city, but we know there is more to do," the ad says.Tourist organization VisitBaltimore posted full-page ads Monday in The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, and the ad will appear Tuesday in The New York Times. It lists the city's rankings in several business and tourism categories.Online, a new website was introduced: WeAreBaltimore.com. It has been in the works for several months, but founders said the president's attacks caused them to show it off early."The 'We Are Baltimore' site is really an aggregation of all the good stories that are happening in a kind of Reddit style, where citizens can vote up or down their favorite stories about the area," said Todd Marks, president and CEO of Mindgrub. "We are specifically putting a media budget together so that, at the national level, we can promote these good stories with earned and paid-for media to help combat that image we have."When fully activated, the site is intended to be a central gathering place for stories about Baltimore that present a different narrative than the one that so often defines all the city is about."There are harsh realities, but there's also tremendous progress and momentum, capability, talent entrepreneurship, so this is a place we hope will serve as a good news network to tell the story, to provide a counterpoint to the negative," said Greg Tucker, with the Tucker Group.The website's founders said the goal is not to ignore the challenges and conditions in some Baltimore communities, but to tell other parts of the story, too."I think there are about $6 billion in development going on in east Baltimore; most people don't know about it," said Michael Cryor, who was part of the OneBaltimore effort in 2015 to attract support for west Baltimore after the civil unrest. It struggled to gain traction. Cryor said he wished he had a site like the one introduced Monday at that time.