It seemed that presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s dream of holding office is going down the drain. The former New York City Mayor is under fire after a 2016 video resurfaced where Bloomberg claimed that farming and manufacturing jobs need little ‘brainpower.”

In a 2016 Oxford University Forum in England, Bloomberg said, “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It’s a process.

You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that.”

He further added, “Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job.”

After he made those demeaning comments against blue-collar workers, the billionaire also blamed the workers as their “low-intellect” became a major obstacle in the country’s unification process. As if to deny that the billionaire ever eats or even consumes food, he argued that the old industrial and farming jobs are a disadvantage for a growing information economy.

“Now comes the information economy and [it] is fundamentally different because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter,” the billionaire lamented.

While he might seem to be comfortable to disassociate himself to the reality that millions of Americans face every day, Donald Trump Jr slammed Bloomberg by tweeting, “Bloomberg wouldn’t last 3 seconds as a farmer…but like his comments on minorities, you can tell he really hates regular hard working Americans.”

Without directly mentioning Bloomberg, Vice President Mike Pence also responded to the billionaire’s statement by sharing a 2013 Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial titled “Farmer.” The commercial included an audio clip from 1978’s “So God Made a Farmer” speech by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey.

In his speech, Harvey delivered these lines at the Future Farmers of America convention in 1978:

“It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight…and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed…and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self-feeder and then finish a hard day’s work with a five-mile drive to church. Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who’d laugh and then sigh…and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life “doing what dad does”. So, God made a farmer!”

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In their effort to try to mitigate the situation, Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 campaign senior adviser Tim O’Brien said that Bloomberg’s past remarks were intended to be understood in a “historical context.” O’Brien defended the billionaire on Monday after “The Story” guest host Ed Henry pressed him on the issue.

Moreover, O’Brien went as far as to claim that Bloomberg is a “changed” man. “I think Mike Bloomberg over the last 30 years has evolved…some men evolve and don’t change, and some men evolve and take action, and Mike Bloomberg has evolved and taken action.”