WATCH: Michael Bloomberg Awkwardly "Snout-shakes" Dog In Burlington, Vermont
Michael Bloomberg seems to think you greet dogs with a firm shake, and very confident eye contact.
In case you missed it... This is incredible. Michael Bloomberg is so isolated from everyday people that he thinks you greet a dog by shaking its snout, like a handshake for dogs. Vermont’s different; it’s not that different, Mayor Mike. We have the full miserably awkward clip below for the public’s enjoyment. After shaking the dog’s head vigorously, the dog appears to yawn and look away, visibly creeped out by the out of touch authoritarian billionaire’s attempt to connect.
Not as bad as anything Joe Biden does on camera lately to be sure — but still a huge gaffe for the Bloomberg campaign, which is floundering already.
And although the clip appears to have evaded Internet virality for the first couple days it was online anywhere, it’s now making up for lost time: the clip embedded below from a political reporter at CBS News has already been viewed almost 5 million times this week on Twitter — 5 million views in just one place, not bad at all.