Donald Trump is suddenly scared of Mike Bloomberg -- as he should be

[Zorro]

Mike Bloomberg probably isn’t going to win the Democratic nomination for president. But he might beat Donald Trump anyway.

The reason? Well, there are a couple billion of them — namely, the $2 billion Bloomberg plans to spend on Democrats' behalf regardless of how he fares in the primary.

If you want to understand Trump, you need to know two things. First, he sees life as a brutal zero-sum competition: who’s up, who’s down, who’s winning, who’s losing. Which is why he’s always been obsessed with money — not only because of what it can buy but because of what it represents. “Money was never a big motivation for me,” Trump once tweeted, “except as a way to keep score.”

The second thing to know is that much of what the president says is shaped by projection — the tendency to project onto other people one’s own impulses and motivations, often as a defense against anxiety. Trump’s nicknames for opponents reflect this aspect of his personality: “Crooked Hillary,” “Lyin’ Ted” and so on.

We won’t speculate about the psychological dimensions of “Mini Mike,” Trump’s new epithet for Bloomberg, who is 5’7”. But when the president deviated Thursday morning from his daily barrage of tweets about “Shifty Schiff” and the “Do Nothing Democrats” to offer up some Twitter punditry about Bloomberg, his revealing choice of words made plain the deeper anxieties lurking below the surface.

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-is-suddenly-scared-of-mike-bloomberg-he-has-two-billion-reasons-why-223005859.html

[dewsgirl]

1. I really wish I liked him more, the Trump factor is a huge

factor though, I imagine that alone could earn him quite a few voters.

[empedocles]

5. Also, the Bloomberg and Steyer campaigns, are doing damage to trump

here and now - unlike the intrmural Dem campaign dirtball flings that damage the Dems.

[dewsgirl]

7. Very true and it's getting ugly, I can't imagine how much worse it

will get between now and the summer.

[empedocles]

8. Even if BS gets TKO's in the big early primaries, or even KO's - BS 2016 BS destructiveness

seems almos inevitable.

[NCjack]

2. What a fitting way to decimate his fortune. Save our Constitution and Democracy by

bankrupting Trump and donors in the 2020 election. I wish he (with other rich patriots) would establish a broadcast network that would drive Fox to the brink of disaster, and then on the day after the election, push it over a cliff.

[empedocles]

9. OK with all that

[left-of-center2012]

12. "decimate his fortune"

His net worth is estimated at $58 billion. Doubtful he’ll decimate it.

And there is a cable ‘Bloomberg’ TV network centered towards business and capital market programming,
owned by Bloomberg L.P.
It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide.

[tinrobot]

14. Bloomberg already has a broadcast network

He could do that quite easily.

[CatMor]

3. Bloomberg's estimated net worth is 58 billion and ...

their are 13 people in the world richer. That is hard to comprehend. It must also drive trump crazy so he tries to make like he's superior because he's taller. Keep it up
Mr. Bloomberg.

[Mr.Bill]

4. If Trump uses money to keep score,

he's never won anything.

[paleotn]

6. * is scared of his shadow.

For all his bluster, he's still a little boy waiting for the jig to finally be up.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. If Bloomberg were half the fucking child that Cheeto Benito is

he'd come up with a nickname like 'chump change tRump.'

[Scotch-Irish]

11. Trump really is the king of projection.

At least he's king of something! His dream has come true!

[tinrobot]

13. I gotta admit, Bloomberg would mop the floor with Trump...

Just the fact that Bloomberg is an actual billionaire would make Trump roll over like submissive puppy.

I'm not quite as moderate as Bloomberg, so he''s not my first choice. But, if we're going middle-of-the-road, Bloomberg might be the guy.

[lees1975]

15. He's already burying him in ads

Bloomberg ads are everywhere, and most of them point to one trump failure or another. I will support whoever the party nominates, and I hope every other Democrat and anti-trump independent and Republican goes that way as well. But I like what Bloomberg is doing to push the campaign forward.