The hosts of The View cast doubt on the depth of President Trump’s wealth while praising Michael Bloomberg as having more money.
“To me, Trump’s Achilles’ heel is his money,” co-host Joy Behar said Friday during a segment on the ABC show about Trump and Bloomberg’s recent Twitter fight. “He inherited $40 million from his father. He kind of blew it. He’s bankrupted casinos, which is impossible to do. Nobody does that.”
“Bloomberg is worth $61 billion and this guy is worth $3.1 billion,” Behar added. Co-host Sunny Hostin jumped in and said that “we don’t even know if he’s worth that much.”
“It feels like a New Yorker ‘yo mama’ contest between two rich white guys,” co-host Ana Navarro said. “I’m so here for it. I would love to see it on a debate stage. But part of the thing is, Mike Bloomberg is so unflappable and unbothered.”
“You would be too if you were worth $61 billion. That makes you feel secure, you know?” Behar replied. Navarro said that “it’s not the size that matters” but the “size of that bank account is impressive.” “I don’t care how short he is,” Behar concurred.
The discussion came after Trump called Bloomberg “Mini Mike” on Twitter. The former New York City mayor responded by calling the president “a carnival barking clown.”
The View has recently given favorable coverage to Bloomberg, and co-host Meghan McCain accused Behar on Friday’s show of “schilling” for the former mayor. Hostin was cut off Wednesday from bringing up Bloomberg’s controversial comments regarding stop and frisk.
The former mayor has been surging in the polls recently, with 14% support according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls. So far, Bloomberg has dumped more than a quarter of a billion dollars into his campaign.
