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Bloomberg Once Told ‘Nice Person’ Trump: ‘Yes, Donald, I Do Love You’

A resurfaced clip shows Bloomberg recounting a conversation he had with Trump four years ago.

Mike Bloomberg—whose previous chumminess with President Donald Trump is coming back to haunt him as he contends for the Democratic presidential nomination—once described Trump as a “nice person” and told the future president that he loved him. A resurfaced clip reported by Politico shows Bloomberg speaking at Oxford University shortly after the 2016 election. He told the crowd about a chat he had with Trump after a 9/11 memorial service that year, when Trump told Bloomberg he saw his critical speech about him at the Democratic National Convention. In Bloomberg’s retelling, Trump said to him: “But you really do love me, don’t ya?” Bloomberg went on: “And I said, ‘Yes, Donald, I do love you, I just disagree with everything you’ve ever said.’ And we had a good laugh... If you’ve sat and had dinner with Donald Trump, you’d probably walk away saying everything he just said is bullshit, he can’t be doing that. But you have a good time. He is socially a nice person.” A previous Bloomberg clip showed him describing Trump as his “friend” and a “New York icon.”