Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took quite a beating during Wednesday’s Democratic primary debate, which didn’t go unnoticed by President Donald Trump.
“Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones,” Trump tweeted early Thursday morning. “He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent.”
He also retweeted a video of a shrunken Bloomberg peering over a podium before getting crushed by a foot, presumably Trump’s.
“This makes Mini Mike look good compared to his performance last night,” Trump wrote with the video. “Worst debate performance in history!”
Bloomberg made his first appearance on the debate stage amid scrutiny over his misogynistic comments to his female employees and the racist stop-and-frisk policy he championed as mayor. His rivals wasted no time to rake the billionaire over the coals.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in particular took it upon herself to shred Bloomberg over his treatment of women and the NDAs he had his female employees sign to block them from discussing their allegations of sexual misconduct at his company, Bloomberg LP.
“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: A billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians,’ and no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg,” she said in her withering salvo.
Bloomberg tried to defend himself by claiming none of the women who signed NDAs had accused him personally of anything “other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told,” an answer that didn’t go over well with the booing crowd.
The former mayor also stumbled when the other candidates took him to task for his stop-and-frisk policy, awkwardly saying that he was “embarrassed” about the practice, which “got out of control.”
Hey Donnie, Bloomberg wasn’t impeached, and is still a real billionaire.
its time to do my laundry.
At this point, I think it’s hard to argue that the DNC was changing the rules for who qualifies for the debate as a “favor” to Bloomberg. It’s like allowing someone to walk into a den of lions as a favor. Bloomberg would have done much better to have stayed out of the debates and, I think he knows that now.
Trump was a Democrat until he wanted to be president and switched to Republican, Bloomberg was a Republican and switched to Democrat because he wants to be president. Hopefully democrats are better at detecting phonies. Republicans are all phonies and hypocrites so they had no problems internalizing Trump.
It may be “hard to argue that” – with the benefit of hindsight.