President Bloomberg (Unexotic World)

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Michael Rubens Bloomberg is a New-York based businessman, philanthropist, author and politician who served as the 46th President of the United States of America from 2017 to 2023. Prior to his ascension to the White House, Bloomberg was the co-founder and majority shareholder of Bloomberg LP, which made him one of the richest and most powerful men in America. Bloomberg was elected the 108th Mayor of New York City, which he served from 2001 to 2013, serving three terms in total. Bloomberg, who expressed interest in a presidential run in 2014, was widely expected to be a candidate in the 2016 Presidential Election, but many were unsure whether or not Bloomberg would run as an Independent, Republican, the party of which he served his mayoral tenure as, or Democrat, the party of which he had been registered as prior to his mayoral run. Bloomberg officially announced his candidacy for the presidency on the 25th of March 2015. Bloomberg secured the Republican nomination in July 2016 and would go on to be elected the 45th President of the United States of America after narrowly beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, succeeding Barack Obama.

The presidency of Michael Bloomberg began on the 20th of January 2015 and ended on the 16th of March 2025, following two terms in office. Bloomberg won re-election in 2020 over Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren.

While Bloomberg received strong popularity within certain wings of the Republican Party, and was widely credited for America's economic expansion in the 2020s, many of his critics labelled him as "authoritarian" or "hawkish" with regards to his policies on criminal justice and international relations. Bloomberg's presidency was widely defined by the 2019-2022 COVID-19 pandemic and the beginning of the U.S.-China Cold War. Other notable achievements of the Bloomberg Administration included the North Korean-United States summit in 2018, the ending of filibustering in Congress and the implementation of Phase 1 of the Bloomberg-Romney Energy Independence Act of 2022.

POLITICAL POSITIONS
See: Political Positions of Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat, who registered as a Republican to run for New York's mayoralty. He converted to being an Independent for his final term as mayor as a New York City, and re-registered as a Republican in 2015.

Bloomberg is a self-described technocrat and is widely considered to be the spearhead of the resurgence of Rockefeller Republicanism in America, in reference to Bloomberg's socially liberal, fiscally conservative policies reminiscent of the former Vice President.

Bloomberg made it his top presidential priority to reduce the federal deficit, which at the time of Bloomberg's

2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
''"Let's clean up our act." - ''Bloomberg's 2016 campaign slogan

CAMPAIGN
Bloomberg announced his candidacy for the 2016 GOP nomination on the 25th of March 2015, joining a crowded and divided field of Republicans eager to move on from the landslide defeat of Donald Trump in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections and restore a Republican vision to the White House after eight years of Barack Obama.