Trump Takes Jab at Bloomberg During Press Conference: ‘How’s Michael’
President Donald Trump took a jab at one of his former political rivals during Thursday’s press conference — calling on a reporter from Bloomberg and joking, “How’s Michael?” The president’s icy relationship with the…
President Donald Trump took a jab at one of his former political rivals during Thursday’s press conference — calling on a reporter from Bloomberg and joking, “How’s Michael?”
The president’s icy relationship with the press has not warmed up during the coronavirus pandemic, though he now appears before them every day as his coronavirus task force briefs the nation on the virus.
After asking who the reporter was with, in which he said Bloomberg, Trump asked, “How’s Michael doing? Good?” The reporter then laughed and continued to proceed with his question.
Here is the clip of the interaction:
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Michael Bloomberg and Trump had an ongoing feud when the former New York City mayor was on the campaign trail. The president constantly mocked Bloomberg’s height, at one point crouching behind a podium at CPAC to dig the joke a bit further.
After the field of Democrats trounced Bloomberg in one of the debates, Trump also took a shot at the billionaire, joking that he was “stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent.” And adding, “If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will.”
Of course, in early March, Bloomberg dropped out of the race