'Bloomberg's vanity ads are purposely wrong': Trump lashes out at 'mini' Mike's saturation TV campaign attacking his healthcare policies

  • Donald Trump struck out at Michael Bloomberg for a campaign ad that attacks  his health care policy
  • The president also criticized Bloomberg for not being on the debate stage 
  • 'Mini Mike Bloomberg doesn’t get on the Democrat Debate Stage because he doesn’t want to - he is a terrible debater and speaker,' Trump tweeted 
  • Bloomberg took to Twitter to hit back at the president
  • 'I want to debate, but I don't qualify because I've never taken a penny in contributions from anyone. Not even a "very small loan" of a million dollars' 
  • Bloomberg has spent $225 million of his own money on his campaign 
  • He has said he's willing to spend up to $1 billion to defeat the president

Donald Trump struck out at Michael Bloomberg on Friday, slamming 'Mini Mike' for his health care ads that attack the president's policy, claiming they are 'purposely wrong. 

'Mini Mike Bloomberg ads are purposely wrong - A vanity project for him to get into the game. Nobody in many years has done for the USA what I have done for the USA, including the greatest economy in history, rebuilding our military, biggest ever tax & regulation cuts, & 2nd A!,' Trump wrote on Twitter.

Bloomberg has spent $225 million of his own money on his campaign, according to Advertising Analytics, in an ad wave that has blanketed the nation. Some of those commercials include attacks on Trump and the Republicans for dismantling the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. 

Donald Trump struck out at Michael Bloomberg for a campaign ad that attacks his health care policy

Donald Trump struck out at Michael Bloomberg for a campaign ad that attacks his health care policy

Bloomberg has spent $225 million of his own money on his campaign

Bloomberg has spent $225 million of his own money on his campaign

The former mayor has indicated he is willing to spend up to $1 billion in his effort to defeat Trump in November. 

And he's the only Democratic candidate - at the moment - that can match the financial heft of the Trump re-election effort.

The combination of Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee has nearly $200 million cash on hand to drop in the 2020 contest. 

The two men are already going mano-a-mano next month when each campaign drops $10 million on a campaign ad to air during the Super Bowl. 

Trump, meanwhile, also mocked Bloomberg for not making the Democratic debate stage. The former New York City mayor has the polling numbers to make the debates but doesn't meet the donor requirement as he is self-funding his presidential bid and not accepting donations. 

'Mini Mike Bloomberg doesn’t get on the Democrat Debate Stage because he doesn’t want to - he is a terrible debater and speaker. If he did, he would go down in the polls even more (if that is possible!),' Trump tweeted.

The president often mocks the physical appearance of his rivals. During the 2016 Republican presidential primary he often slammed 'Little' Marco Rubio and, during the impeachment process, he gave Adam Schiff the moniker 'pencil neck.'  

Bloomberg took to Twitter to respond.

'Well, you ARE the expert on vanity projects, but here's what you've done for the USA,' he wrote to Trump in response to the president's 'vanity project' criticism, He also posted a video of Trump's name being removed from Trump place buildings.

He also explained why he's on the debate stage with other candidates competing for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

'I want to debate, but I don't qualify because I've never taken a penny in contributions from anyone. Not even a "very small loan" of a million dollars,' Bloomberg tweeted in response to the president on Friday. 

Trump has said he launched his New York real estate career with 'a small loan of a million dollars' from his father. 

A New York Times investigation of the president's finances found he received at least $413 million from his father over several years. Fred Trump was a prominent real estate developer in New York City. 

Bloomberg's campaign said last week that it was spending so much on its Super Bowl ad - and on other commercials - in part to get under the president's skin.

'The biggest point is getting under Trump's skin,' Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the Bloomberg campaign, told The New York Times

By 'taking the fight to Trump,' he said, 'the ad is part of Mike's strategy of running a national campaign that focuses on states where the general election will be decided, parts of the country that are often overlooked.' 

Trump and Bloomberg have a love-hate relationship going back decades.

Even before he formally entered the Democratic presidential race, Bloomberg was willing to spend up to $500 million to make Trump a one-term president.  

Despite being New York billionaires, the two men rarely spent time together.

They were typically seen together at charity events, usually those that involved golf. 

In 2007, when Bloomberg was in the second of his three terms as mayor, the two played together in a charity event at Trump National Golf Club.

And Bloomberg appeared twice on Trump's reality TV show, 'The Apprentice,' in 2004 and 2008, to show support for a program produced in New York.

Additionally, Bloomberg's daughter Georgina is friends with Ivanka Trump. 

Donald Trump, Joe Torre, Ali Torre, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rudolph Giuliani and Billy Crystal attend the 2008 Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation Golf Classic at Trump National Golf Club on July 14, 2008

Donald Trump, Joe Torre, Ali Torre, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rudolph Giuliani and Billy Crystal attend the 2008 Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation Golf Classic at Trump National Golf Club on July 14, 2008

Ali Torri, Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bill Clinton, Joe Torre, and Billy Crystal at the 2008 Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation Golf Classic in July 2008

Ali Torri, Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bill Clinton, Joe Torre, and Billy Crystal at the 2008 Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation Golf Classic in July 2008

In July 2017, Bloomberg, in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, took a shot at Trump's wealth, implying the president wasn't actually a billionaire.

'Let me phrase this carefully so you get the message: I don't know how wealthy other people are,' Bloomberg told the interviewer when asked about the president.

And when asked if he was implying Trump wasn't a billionaire, Bloomberg replied: 'I didn't say that. You said that.'

Bloomberg is believe to be worth $53 billion, according to Forbes, while Trump's is believed to be $3.1 billion.