President Trump on Wednesday reveled in the news that Mike Bloomberg scrapped his campaign and will endorse Joe Biden after the former veep’s stunning series of Super Tuesday victories.
“Mini Mike Bloomberg just ‘quit’ the race for President. I could have told him long ago that he didn’t have what it takes, and he would have saved himself a billion dollars, the real cost. Now he will pour money into Sleepy Joe’s campaign, hoping to save face. It won’t work!” the commander-in-chief tweeted.
Bloomberg earlier had abandoned his campaign — on which he spent hundreds of millions of dollars — and said his goal was to back Biden to defeat Trump in November.
The billionaire former mayor also tweeted a response to the president, including a 15-second video clip of Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader.
“Your powers are weak old man,” Vader tells Kenobi.
“You can’t win you know, because if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine,” the Jedi Master, played by Alec Guinness, replies.
“See you soon, Donald,” Bloomberg wrote with the clip.
The president also attacked Bloomberg’s staff, and singled out Tim O’Brien, a senior adviser to Bloomberg and the author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”
“Mini Mike Bloomberg will now FIRE Tim O’Brien, and all of the fools and truly dumb people who got him into this MESS. This has been the worst, and most embarrassing, experience of his life…and now on to Sleepy Joe!” Trump tweeted.
O’Brien, whom Trump unsuccessfully sued for libel over the book, quickly fired back.
“Well, @JoeBiden, @MikeBloomberg and the rest of the @Mike2020 team are still here, Donald. And we’re going to beat you in November,” he replied.
In a third post, Trump also mocked Bloomberg’s withdrawal statement, quoting it in part.
“Mini Mike, ‘Three months ago I entered the race for President to defeat Donald Trump, (and I failed miserably!),” the president wrote.
Donald TrumpREUTERSTeam Trump also piled on, with GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel mocking the billionaire.
“We just watched Mike Bloomberg waste half a BILLION dollars – more than $10M per delegate received – to attack @realDonaldTrump. It failed – miserably! #MikeDidntGetItDone,” she tweeted.
Biden on Tuesday won across the South, Midwest and New England on the biggest day of voting in the Democratic presidential nomination campaign, setting up a one-on-one battle against Bernie Sanders, who led in California.
Biden, whose campaign was on life support just weeks ago, won nine of 14 states, including surprise victories in Texas and Massachusetts.
Bloomberg won American Samoa.



