Mike Bloomberg has ended his short-lived but very expensive campaign to become the Democratic candidate for president, with reports that he spent $500 million on trying to grab the nomination.
That led folks on Twitter to mostly make the same sports-related joke about the former New York City mayor: if you were going to spend that kind of money — and we know Bloomberg has A LOT of it — on a campaign, why not spend on something more worthwhile like, say, buying the New York Mets?
Here’s a sampling of the reaction as news broke of Bloomberg dropping out on Wednesday morning:
