Highly mislead. The full article makes it clear he is talking about voters in South Bend, nominated by Newsweek as a dying city. To say that ‘America is already great’ is s poor slogan for the distressed and dying cities and towns in the rust should not be controversial.

Do you know your Tale of Two Cities, where Mario Cuomo took aim at Reagan’s ‘Shining City on the Hill’

But there's another city; there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one; where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate ... There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.

Telling the underclass America is already great is a sick joke.