KEY POINTS

  • Donald Trump was mocked for attacking Michael Bloomberg's height
  • Michael Bloomberg's spokesperson accused Donald Trump of lying
  • Donald Trump's heigh, fake hair, spray-on tan, and weight were mocked 

Donald Trump just got into an online spat with Michael Bloomberg and the latter’s staff and supporters.

On Sunday morning, the POTUS penned a series of offensive tweets about Bloomberg’s height and called the former New York City mayor “Mini Mike.”

Trump was seemingly disturbed after seeing Bloomberg stand on a platform, which is normal for someone that speaks behind a podium.

“Mini Mike is now negotiating both to get on the Democrat Primary debate stage, and to have the right to stand on boxes, or a lift, during the debates,” Trump wrote.

After seeing his tweet, Bloomberg’s campaign spokeswoman, Julie Wood, accused the president of being a pathological liar because he has been busted of lying about his height, weight, his hair, and his spray-on tan.

Daniel Day also released a statement after talking to Wood. He said that there is no basis for Trump’s tweet against Bloomberg. The latter never asked for a box to stand on during his debates.

According to Political Flare, the POTUS’s attack on Bloomberg seems absurd because the former mayor is just half a foot shorter than Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump also indirectly denied the allegations that he’s obese. During the Super Bowl weekend, Melania Trump’s husband shared a photo of himself playing golf while at Mar-a-Lago. In his caption, the POTUS revealed that he was exercising at that time.

However, Trump’s understanding of exercising was questioned by Evan Osnos in an article that he wrote for the New Yorker.

Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy,” he wrote.

In the book “Trump Revealed,” Washington Post reporters Michael Karnish and Marc Fisher said that after college, the POTUS saw playing sports as time wasted.

“Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So, he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, ‘You are going to die young because of this,’” they wrote.

Years later, it seems Trump regards golfing as a form exercise once again.

Donald Trump briefly placed the Kansas Chief's home stadium in the state of Kansas, rather than Missouri
Donald Trump briefly placed the Kansas Chief's home stadium in the state of Kansas, rather than Missouri AFP / Jim WATSON