Name: Michael Bloomberg Reveals How President Trump Reacted to His Advice in 2016
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T01:51:56.000Z
Duration: 3 min 44 s
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You actually did have a phone call with Donald Trump.

After he got elected and before he took office,

I wanted to be -- he wanted me to know he wanted a call,

He was the Pres-elect and I don't have an ego, so okay.

And he asked me what he should do and I said,

What you need to do is to get some people

that have experience, try to find a bunch of people

at which point he alleged that there weren't any.

And then he gave me his private cellphone number,

-You haven't talked to him? -I have not talked to him since.

[ Laughter ] -Yeah, I heard that. I saw that.

When you were last on our show, I think you were still mayor,

and everyone here asked you, begged you to run for President,

Why are you deciding to run now? Why now?

-Because I took a look and I thought the people

who are running didn't have ideas that were practical.

We couldn't afford them, and Congress wouldn't pass them,

and I didn't think they could beat Donald Trump,

and I think the most important thing is to change

because as I said back in Philadelphia in 2016,

You're not focusing on, like, New Hampshire and Iowa and --

-Well, I entered the race too late to really compete

and you have to build a team and there are

only a certain number of people you can hire that would know

who to talk to and where to go and where to have dinner

So I just really didn't have the chance to enter

but I've spent my time since then going around the country

for all the states who have their elections in March,

and so far I've been to 24 states and 56 cities

-Then California and Arizona and Colorado

For me to ask other people for money is ridiculous.

when I was running for mayor three times.

I want people to understand that my integrity is everything.

but it just sets the right -- I think it sets the right tone

to say I'm not taking anything from anybody, and unfortunately,

the Democratic Party has rules you can't be in the debates

unless you have 200,000 or 2 million, whatever it is, donors,

-If they were to change the rules, I'd love to debate.

that you can take the grief as well as give it out,

and I think I have good answers to the kind of questions

that reporters would ask you, and some cute remarks for those

-That's basically what the debates are, yeah.

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Michael Bloomberg Reveals How President Trump Reacted to His Advice in 2016

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