Mike Bloomberg: Trump is a ‘pretend CEO’ and ‘totally incompetent’
TYSONS CORNER, Virginia — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg savaged President Trump on Friday as a “pretend CEO” who’s “totally incompetent,” but said he still hasn’t decided whether to run for president himself.
“It’s a very complicated thing and I’ll take a look and see. It’s wonderful to have options, and I’m a very lucky guy,” Bloomberg told the Democratic Business Council of Northern Virginia.
“And in the end you just wake up one day and you’ll say, ‘The right thing for me is X.’ And I actually do not know what ‘X’ is at this point in time.”
Despite his uncertainty, Bloomberg is headed to the early voting state of New Hampshire next week.
Whatever he decides, the ex-mayor said he is “committed” to taking out Trump.
“This is a person who should not be president of the United States,” Bloomberg said.
“He’s in way over his head. He is a real estate promoter who’s never run a large organization before, just a small family office. He inherited his money. He lost big on a bunch of bad bets, which his father bailed him out of again and again. And almost every deal he ever made, he left his customers and contractors holding the bag.”
“It even appears he cheated his own charity out of money,” Bloomberg went on.
He called Trump’s presidency “painful to watch.”
“It’s like the government version of a bad horror movie. But instead of Freddy Krueger in the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ we have Donald Trump in the ‘Nightmare on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,’” Bloomberg said.
He recalled knowing Trump “casually” in New York, where the two of them “cut ribbons” together. “He took the subway all the time, but he didn’t know which end of the MetroCard to put in,” Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg changed his party registration from independent to Democratic in October. He ran as a Republican to win City Hall.
At the event Friday, he complimented House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership style. “Herding cats is not easy and she really has done such a great job,” he said.
He also reminded the audience that he had supported former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking at the 2016 convention.
The former mayor argued that Democrats shouldn’t have to choose between “energizing the base and winning the center.”
Bloomberg has said he intends to make a decision about a White House run by early February.
He argued that being mayor of New York City provides “most of the skills that I think we need in a president” and joked that he wanted to try a new desk setup “that lends itself to an office with slightly rounded walls,” a reference to the Oval Office.
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