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Bloomberg Calls Trump Presidency “Senselessly Chaotic”

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Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire philanthropist who is considered a contender for the presidency race in 2020, critiqued President Donald Trump on his first two years in the oval office—and it was not pretty. On Sunday, he wrote an opinion piece on his company’s website, Bloomberg News, entitled ‘Trump Rings in the New Year in the Worst Possible Way’.

He started the piece by saying, “There are many reasons to be optimistic about 2019. The increasingly isolated man in the Oval Office is not one of them.” He went on to blast the President for the Syrian troop pullout, and blamed him for the partial government shutdown and the tumbling stock market. “Each of these mistakes has a common denominator: Trump’s recklessly emotional and senselessly chaotic approach to the job,” Bloomberg wrote. “At the halfway mark of this terrible presidency, one has to wonder how much more the country can take.”

Of the government shut down, he wrote, that the basis was “ the president’s obsession with a border wall that won’t work but will waste billions of taxpayer money”. Regarding the financial market he wrote, “the stock market dove to its worst week since 2011, as investors concerned about Trump’s taste for trade wars delivered a vote of no-confidence.”

The three-term former mayor also referenced, at length, James Mattis’ recent retirement as a cause of concern. “On Thursday, one of the last remaining seasoned and respected professionals at the top of the administration announced his resignation, for reasons he explained in a letter that was as courteous as it was devastating,” he wrote. Bloomberg noted that Trump’s decision to withdraw militarily from Syria led to the Defense Secretary to resign in protest, making him the first to do so since 1947 when the position was created.

Bloomberg, 76, called on Republicans to stand up to the president. “Some Republicans, at least, seem to be slowly realizing what a disaster Trump’s trade policies have been. His trade war with China has won few concessions but has cost American workers, consumers, farmers and businesses a great deal.”

“Unless something changes – unless, in particular, Republicans in Congress start showing some spine – two more years might be enough to test whether we can sustain Trump’s model of bad government,” wrote Bloomberg . “This past week, we got a glimpse of what the beginning of the collapse may look like – and what it may ultimately cost us.”

The opinion piece was not the first instance in which Bloomberg criticized the President. As of Tuesday afternoon, President Trump did not yet responded to the derogatory Editorial.

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