Donald Trump now hates Michael Bloomberg because Bloomberg was mean to him

[DonViejo]

By Philip Bump

One of the more effective speeches during the Democratic convention came from former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In many ways, Bloomberg is what Donald Trump wants to be: a very rich guy who runs a media company and who converted that wealth into political power. Of all of the rich New Yorkers involved in the 2016 campaign, Bloomberg is the richest, worth some $40 billion, four times what Trump says he's worth and 13 times what Bloomberg (the media company) estimates Trump is actually worth. (Hillary Clinton, by contrast, is a lowly millionaire.)

Bloomberg is an ideological centrist in a way that now seems almost quaint, and his endorsement of Clinton on Wednesday night was more an anti-endorsement of Trump. He hammered Trump, questioning his actual wealth, calling him a con man and a hypocrite, and suggesting that Clinton deserved votes because she is "sane" and "mature." And on Thursday, as Clinton was preparing to accept her party's nomination, Trump got mad about it.

At an event in Iowa, he started talking about how he wanted to "hit" the Democratic speakers at the convention who were disparaging him. The choice of words was awkward, but it seems clear he meant it in the way he's used it throughout his campaign: To go after them with verbal or tweeted insults.

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[UCmeNdc]

1. Michael Bloomberg knows Loser Donald Trump's history well

That really hurts Trump's feelings. LOL!

[auntpurl]

2. From the comments:

One of Donald Trump's problems is that he never seems to perceive himself as a representative: it's always just himself. This is one of the reasons why he should never be a President: he automatically reacts as himself, not ever as the representative of something much larger than himself. He takes things personally, and has no perspective on them except his own. How could he ever forego abusing power, if he had real power to misuse?

So true.

[Koinos]

3. Trump's childish pattern of lashing out at everyone who criticizes him.