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NBC ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s Joke About Bloomberg’s Height

NBC ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s Joke About Bloomberg’s Height

The “real” news industry is all over this one. President Trump joked that short billionaire Michael Bloomberg would be standing on a box during the democratic party debate tonight. The liberal media won’t question any of the ridiculous things democrats say, but they fact-checked the hell out of this and determined that Bloomberg will in fact not be standing on box for the debates. Once again they have busted President Trump in an outrageous stretch of the truth.

Here’s Trump having some fun at Bloomberg’s expense:

Is there anyone who looked at those tweets and thought Trump was being serious about the box thing? Well yes actually, NBC got their fact-checkers on this immediately:

That’s brilliant reporting right there.

Here’s the thing, NBC didn’t ask Bloomberg’s campaign about any other possible remedies for his small stature. Is he going to stand on a pile of money or possibly a Jenga of gold bars? Maybe he’ll request a shorter podium so he looks proportionate to the much taller candidates. He should just stand on one of the hundreds of democrats he paid to get elected. They owe him.

NBC is hosting tonight’s debate and since they’ve obviously been the recipient of some of Bloomberg’s cash for positive coverage and “fact-checking” President Trump’s jokes, the network will probably hook him. They could place a camera on the floor and only shoot him from the low angle so he looks like a giant. Hell, they should just build a small scale model of Tokyo around Bloomberg’s podium, giving the impression he is Godzilla.

In related news Bloomberg is demanding that most of the other democrats drop out of the race so he can win the party’s nomination. Axios reports:

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign is sounding the alarm that Bernie Sanders will soon amass an unsurmountable delegate lead if the Democratic field stays split — and took the extraordinary step of suggesting laggards should drop out.

What they’re saying: Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg’s top strategist, said: “The fact is if the state of this race remains status quo — with Biden, Pete and Amy in the race on Super Tuesday — Bernie is likely to open up a delegate lead that seems nearly impossible to overcome.”

In a “State of the Race” memo to Bloomberg gurus Sheekey and Howard Wolfson, senior adviser Mitch Stewart and states director Dan Kanninen argue:

“If Biden, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar remain in the race despite having no path to appreciably collecting delegates on Super Tuesday (and beyond), they will propel Sanders to a seemingly insurmountable delegate lead by siphoning votes away from [Bloomberg].”

Keep in mind that Bloomberg has yet to participate in a primary or debate and has amassed exactly zero delegates. For such a small guy he’s got some pretty huge cajones to demand other candidates, above him in the polls and with delegates, to drop out. I’m sure he’ll figure out a way to purchase this for himself.

Getting back to the debate, Republican Ted Cruz has a prediction for who will win the democratic party debate in Nevada on Wednesday night:

I wonder if it’s possibly to make that bet at a Vegas sports book, because it’s a lock.