Nanny Bloomberg has an Obama-size ego.
Via NY Post:
He’s no longer mayor, but he plans to retain his role as New York City’s favorite finger-wagging nanny.
In his first public appearance since he turned over control of the Big Apple to Bill de Blasio, former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg said he’s not planning to give up on his crusade to stop people from killing themselves.
“So much of the tragedy in this world is self-inflicted,” he told Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu on Tuesday. “There are wars and there’s genocide,” he said. “But most of the people die before they should because of their own behavior,” he said.
In a joint interview with billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, the billionaire former mayor hinted that his Third Act — after founding Bloomberg LP and being NYC’s mayor for an historic three terms — will be as a consumer advocate.
“If you take a look at these companies, like the tobacco companies, they target those who don’t know,” Bloomberg said. “And that’s what we have to work on: educating them and giving them the tools and counteracting special interests who make money selling them products or getting them to do things are dangerous to themselves.”
The former mayor, dressed in a blue pin-stripped suit and purple tie, didn’t mention the makers and sellers of large sugary drinks — a failed pet cause in his last hours as mayor — but he took a shot across the bow of the tobacco industry, which he said will kill a billion people this century.