Donald Trump Calls Mike Bloomberg A 'Total Racist' For What He Said In 2015

A supporter of Bernie Sanders, who is currently running for US presidentship recently posted a 2015 audio clip of presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, where the former New York Mayor can be heard defending the use of stop-and-frisk policing in minority communities.

Reacting to the tweet, President Donald Trump called out Bloomberg for being a “Total Racist” for saying that crime exists in the minority neighborhoods and the US should put “all the cops” there.

In the audio Bloomberg can be heard defending the tough police tactics in a 2015 speech to the Aspen Institute. He explained that his plan of putting “all the cops in minority neighborhoods” is in order to tackle gun violence.

“Ninety-five percent of murders- murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops,' Bloomberg told the audience. They are male, minorities, 16-25. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every city. And that's where the real crime is. You've got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed. So one of the unintended consequences is people say, 'Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.' Yes, that's true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods.”

“Yes, that's true. Why do we do it? Because that's where all the crime is. And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them... And then they start... 'Oh I don't want to get caught.' So they don't bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home,” he added.

Trump calls out Bloomberg but he himself supports Stop and Frisk

Not only did Trump call Michael Bloomberg a “TOTAL RACIST” in a now-deleted tweet, but he also followed it up with another tweet, taunting the billionaire’s golf game.

“Mini Mike is a short ball (very), hitter. Tiny clubhead speed. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!” the president wrote. It is imperative to note that Trump himself is a follower of Stop and Frisk. In 2018, the then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was instructed by Trump to use the policies to “help straighten out the terrible shooting wave” in Chicago.

“It works, and it was meant for problems like Chicago: Stop and frisk,” Trump had said in a Florida speech in October 2018.

Bloomberg has since apologized for his prior stance as New York mayor especially now that he is competing for minority voters.

“I apologize. I own it. And there’s nothing – I’m going to live with it. My heart, I think, was in the right place of trying to do something of reducing murders but the police – I didn’t pay as much attention to them as I should have. And you know, I apologize,” Bloomberg said.