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  • The Democratic primary campaign.

  • When it started, it was all kumbaya.

  • "Let's beat Trump together."

  • But now it's turned into a season of Game of Thrones.

  • Everyone backstabbing.

  • The house of Bernie has grown in strength and size

  • while facing a challenge from the kingdom of Buttigieg.

  • Meanwhile, the once powerful Lord Biden

  • is slowly watching his influence slip away.

  • And don't forget.

  • Once they're all done fighting each other,

  • they will have to face off against the ultimate enemy,

  • the white king.

  • But, just like Game of Thrones,

  • there's one character who's been off in the wings

  • plotting the whole time: the imp.

  • You see, national polls now have billionaire Mike Bloomberg

  • moving into third place.

  • And President Trump has taken notice

  • of this big little threat,

  • and he's already trying to defeat him

  • in a trial by Twitter.

  • A Twitter war heating up between President Trump

  • and one of the men who wants to take his job.

  • The president took aim at former mayor Mike Bloomberg,

  • saying, "Mini Mike is a five-foot-four mass

  • "of dead energy who does not want to be on the debate stage

  • "with these professional politicians.

  • No boxes, please."

  • Bloomberg responded, writing...

  • (reading):

  • -Oh! -(cheering and applause)

  • Oh! Oh!

  • This is crazy. Two mega-rich dudes

  • dissing each other in the most personal way.

  • It would be like if a rap battle was on CNBC.

  • (laughter)

  • And the sad part... the sad part for me

  • is that billionaire feuds used to be so much more dignified.

  • You know? Yeah, back in the day, it wasn't on Twitter.

  • They'd be like, "Mr. Trump, I have commissioned

  • "a devastating opera that disparages

  • both you and your lineage."

  • Be like, "Well, Master Bloomberg,

  • "at this very moment, a team of artisans

  • "is sculpting a middle finger

  • "from the world's finest Italian marble.

  • In eight to nine months, you will be truly owned."

  • But right now Donald Trump

  • is the least of Mike Bloomberg's problems.

  • See, the real threat to Bloomberg's campaign

  • is his past.

  • NEWSMAN: Mike Bloomberg facing new criticism tonight

  • amid audio that has surfaced on the controversial policy

  • of stop and frisk.

  • NEWSWOMAN: Bloomberg is under fire tonight

  • after a 2015 speech surfaced where he defends

  • his controversial stop and frisk policy

  • and explained why cops are put in minority neighborhoods.

  • Wow.

  • That is not a good look, hmm? Think about it.

  • While Bloomberg is out there

  • trying to win the black vote in 2020,

  • he's on tape in 2015 talking about black people

  • like they're crime piñatas.

  • "Just throw them against the wall.

  • "See what comes out. Could be a gun.

  • Could be a Tootsie Roll. It's fun."

  • This is not a good look.

  • Getting caught on tape encouraging police

  • to arrest black people is definitely gonna hurt you

  • with black voters. It's the same way

  • you would lose white voters if a tape came out of you saying

  • that pets aren't the same as babies.

  • Yeah. All the pumpkin spice in the world

  • can't save you after that.

  • White people would be mad.

  • "This is my baby!"

  • Now, if it was just one bad audio clip,

  • maybe, maybe Mike Bloomberg could get past it and move on.

  • The problem is Mayor Mike has a long history

  • of defending stop-and-frisk,

  • and now even video clips are coming out.

  • And yet another video clip drops tonight,

  • purporting to show Mayor Mike Bloomberg discussing hot topics

  • with racial overtones.

  • They just keep saying,

  • "Oh, it's a 'disportionate' percentage

  • of a particular ethnic group."

  • I think we "disportionately" stop whites too much

  • and minorities too little.

  • -(groaning) -Yeah. According to Mike Bloomberg,

  • white people were the real victims of stop-and-frisk.

  • Imagine that. Black people and Latinos spent years,

  • years, saying that they were being harassed by the police.

  • And Bloomberg's response was, "I hear you.

  • "We have been unfair...

  • to white people."

  • It almost feels like if-if Bloomberg was Abraham Lincoln,

  • he would have ended slavery

  • but for the totally wrong reason.

  • Be like, "We need to end this cruel abomination.

  • "Too many white people are getting carpal tunnel

  • "in their whipping hands.

  • We've got to help them."

  • Now, since these clips came out,

  • Bloomberg has been facing a lot of pressure to explain himself,

  • and, uh, something tells me he's tru-- struggling

  • with, uh, how to respond.

  • REPORTER: Campaigning in Tennessee today,

  • Michael Bloomberg expressed regret

  • for comments from 2015

  • about New York City's controversial

  • stop-and-frisk policy.

  • Um...

  • (exhales)

  • (laughter)

  • I can safely say I've never seen

  • the three typing dots in real life.

  • (laughter)

  • -(applause) -Look at him.

  • (cheering)

  • You-you never see him like this.

  • Mike Bloomberg hasn't been this stren-- stressed

  • since he got into that fight in the subway.

  • But...

  • but my bad-- I shouldn't have interrupted.

  • I'll let him answer.

  • I don't think those words reflect what, um--

  • how I led the most diverse city in the nation.

  • And, uh, I apologized

  • for the practice and the pain that it caused.

  • Uh, but...

  • It was, uh, five years ago.

  • And, um, you know, it's just not the way that I think,

  • and it's-- that is not the way--

  • doesn't reflect what I do every day.

  • Yeah, of course it doesn't reflect what you do every day.

  • You're not the mayor anymore.

  • Nobody thinks you're stopping and frisking black people

  • on your personal time.

  • I mean, mostly because you can't reach their pockets.

  • But...

  • but, also,

  • it's weird that he tries to dismiss those clips

  • by saying it was five years ago.

  • Five years?

  • What difference is that supposed to make for you?

  • Huh? "Look, five years ago,

  • "I was just a 72-year-old man.

  • "I didn't know any better.

  • "I'm much older now,

  • which automatically makes you less racist."

  • But, clearly, the comments in those clips do reflect

  • what Bloomberg was doing as mayor, right,

  • for the simple reason that it's what he did as mayor.

  • You don't have to be a genius to figure this out.

  • As much as Bloomberg is trying to reposition himself

  • now that he needs the support of black voters,

  • he encouraged his police department

  • to treat black people like they were all criminals.

  • And even as he keeps trying to apologize,

  • he's never really taking responsibility for what he did.

  • You know? He apologizes for pieces.

  • "Oh, that-- Well, I ran a diverse place."

  • He's not saying sorry for what he actually did.

  • It would be like if you got caught cheating

  • and your apology was, "Babe, I'm so sorry.

  • "I'm sorry that I didn't delete those messages from my phone.

  • I should have hid them better."

  • It's like, "No, that's not..." "Yeah, no, you're right.

  • "You're right. I should have smashed in a hotel,

  • "instead of our bed. You're right, you're right.

  • "I mess-- I've learned my lesson.

  • "Yeah, yeah. Your friends are off-limits.