26 Business Spotlight 2/2020 NEW YORK SPECIAL
Fotos: VectorPocket/iStock.com; ddp; lev radin/Shutterstock.comalthough Vermont senator Bernie Sanders was born in Brook-
lyn — and whose background is similar to Trump’s: an outsider
billionaire who is still a household name within political circles.
Bloomberg’s ads, however, are promising that he won’t copy
Trump’s tweeting habits if elected president.A relationship gone bad
Bloomberg has thought about running for president many
times, but Trump’s performance in the White House seems to
have finally tipped him into the race. As he’s opened campaign
offices across the US, Bloomberg has given apocalyptic warn-
ings of Trump winning re-election. At his newly opened cam-
paign office in Tennessee, Bloomberg said: “Donald Trump is
trying to pull this country apart, and if you want a future, we
just have to pull it together.” That same day in Philadelphia,
Bloomberg said: “Donald Trump does not know how to manage.
He’s never been a business person. He’s a real-estate developer,
promoter.”
Trump has criticized Bloomberg, too. In early December of
last year, Trump mockingly tweeted that “Mini Mike Bloomberg
has instructed his third-rate news organization” to investigate
“President Trump, only”.
The antagonism goes back to 2016. Bloomberg delivered a
speech at the Democratic National Convention that summer
saying he wasn’t there as “a member of any party” but to urge
voters to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat “a dangerous
demagogue”. And around that time, Trump tweeted: “Little Mi-
chael Bloomberg, who never had the guts to run for president,
knows nothing about me. His last term as mayor was a disaster!”
At the beginning of 2019, Trump told The Washington Post that
he and Bloomberg used to like each other but the relationship
“went strangely haywire once I ran for office”. For the same ar-
ticle, Bloomberg said that his “objection to Donald Trump is
the way he’s filling his current role, in terms of representing the
country, in terms of representing the public. There’s an attitude,
and a style, and a lack of civility that I think is bad for the country,
and I find offensive.”
© Guardian News Service 2020A HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT
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auffordern (etw. zu tun)Who has the biggest punch?IN THE BLUE CORNER...
MICHAEL RUBENS
BLOOMBERGAge: 78
Born: Boston, Massachusetts
Party: Democratic
(since 2018)
Business interests:
Co-founder, CEO and
majority owner of the
financial, software, data
and media company
Bloomberg L.P.Net worth: $59.9 billion
(January 2020)
Political office: Mayor of
New York City, 2002–13
Website:
http://www.mikebloomberg.comIN THE RED CORNER...
DONALD JOHN TRUMPAge: 73
Born: Queens, New York, NY
Party: Republican
(since 2012)
Business interests:
Sole or principal owner of
The Trump Organization,
a group of around 500
business entities in areas such
as real estate, investment,
sales and marketing
Net worth: $3.1 billion
(January 2019)
Political office: President
of the US, 2017–
Website:
http://www.donaldjtrump.com