COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – It’s New York billionaire vs. New York billionaire.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unleashed a wave of Twitter attacks on Michael Bloomberg on Friday, responding to the sharply anti-Trump speech the former New York City mayor delivered this week at the Democratic National Convention.
“If Michael Bloomberg ran again for Mayor of New York, he wouldn’t get 10% of the vote – they would run him out of town!” posted Trump. The celebrity businessman then appropriated his old nickname for his former primary rival Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to take another swipe the three-term mayor.
“‘Little’ Michael Bloomberg, who never had the guts to run for president, knows nothing about me. His last term as Mayor was a disaster!” Trump wrote.
The digital fusillade came just 12 hours after Trump said at campaign rally in Iowa that he wanted to take a swipe at some of the Democratic convention speakers but had been talked out of it. He did not name his intended target, but characterized him as “little.” Bloomberg is listed at standing 5’8″.