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Trump Livid After Mike Bloomberg Says ‘Obese’ Trump is Not Actually a Billionaire

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While most of the 2020 Democratic candidates were in Iowa on Monday night for the first-in-the-nation caucuses, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was campaigning in California.

The decision to skip Iowa, with its 41 pledged delegates, looked pretty damn smart on Tuesday after the Iowa Democratic Party deprived all candidates of bragging rights by mucking up the caucuses tally so no results were available as of Tuesday morning.

Bloomberg told CBS News his campaign swing through California, which holds its primary March 3, “just worked out in the schedule.”

“There’s nothing magical about California and the first day of the Iowa caucus,” Bloomberg said. “California is a very big state with a lot of delegates, so you’d obviously come here more.” Bloomberg reiterated his pledge to support whichever Democrat wins, but when CBS News asked if he was motivated by a personal grudge against Trump, Bloomberg said no, he’s said publicly that Trump is “not the right guy for the job” since back in 2016. “The way he treats people, the way he runs an organization, and the way he makes decisions is not good for this country,” he said.

Bloomberg told CBS News he hadn’t heard Trump’s latest insult on Twitter, but was ready with his own zinger when the reporter asked if he thinks “people are interested in seeing two billionaires fight out over Twitter?” “Two billionaires?” asked Bloomberg, whose $54 billion fortune is documented. “Who’s the second one?”

And we must say, Bloomberg’s words and ads are really getting to the president.

According to CNN, Trump is very upset by in particular by a recent Bloomberg ad that highlights Trump’s…GIRTH.

Vanity Fair has described Trump as “melting down” over Bloomberg and his slick ability to get right to Trump’s ego.

Trump doesn’t like being called fat. I mean, who does?

Trump even took the rare step of proving to the world that he does in fact exercise…if you consider golfing with a gold cart exercise.

And Bloomberg isn’t just releasing ads showing that Trump is rather hefty. They are flat-out out saying it.

After coming under a barrage of attacks from the president Sunday, Bloomberg responded by calling Trump a “pathological liar” — standard rhetoric among Democrats. But then his campaign went further.

“The president,” Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood said, “lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”

Not since Marco Rubio mocked Trump’s supposedly small hands — a stand-in, the unspoken logic went, for lacking in another anatomical department — has one of his rivals tried to play the personal insult game against the disparager-in-chief. The common belief is that it’s a lost cause and only backfires, as Rubio learned the hard way, on the person who tries.

Trump has been lobbing attacks against Bloomberg for his height, calling him “Mini Mike”.

And in his pre-taped Super Bowl interview with Fox host Sean Hannity, Trump referred to Bloomberg simply as “little,” rather than his actual name. He also claimed Bloomberg is asking to stand on a box at future debates, which Bloomberg’s campaign denied.

“Why should he be entitled to that? Really! Does that mean everyone else gets a box?” Trump said. “It’s very interesting.”

Bloomberg, who is listed as 5 feet 8 inches, responded in brief remarks to reporters in Los Angeles.

“I stand twice as tall as he does on the stage that matters,” Bloomberg said. “This is what happens when somebody like me rises in the polls. All of a sudden the other candidates get scared and I think Donald Trump knows that I can beat him. And that’s why he comes back with those kinds of comments.”

Here’s the wondering billionaire comment, sure to get under Trump’s skin:

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