Michael Bloomberg is the kind of rich person Donald Trump aspires to be. While both men are billionaires, Bloomberg boasts a vastly greater net worth. While both men slap their likenesses on business enterprises, Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Radio easily outpace Trump University or Trump Steaks. And while both are rank misogynists, Bloomberg has even more women who have accused him of sexual harassment than Trump.
The two are also similar on a political level — especially if we ignore Bloomberg’s newfound commitments to a variety of liberal positions he didn’t pretend to support in the recent past (just last year, Bloomberg was calling trans people “it” and warning about “a guy in a dress” going into women’s locker rooms.) Like Trump, Bloomberg is very concerned about undocumented immigrants — so much so that he once advocated that all Social Security cards include fingerprints to stop such workers from getting jobs. Like Trump, Bloomberg has a long history of making openly racist comments about racial minorities and crime. Nor was this just idle talk — from the horrifying “stop and frisk” program to the mini-police-state he set up for Muslims in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg put his Trump-like ideas into practice.
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