Bloomberg's "Not A Socialist" Hats

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Bloomberg's "Not a Socialist" Hats refers to hats sold by the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign which read "Not a socialist" on the front and "Bring in the boss" on the back. The hats were widely mocked on social media after the Bloomberg campaign's Twitter account tweeted an advertisement for them.

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On February 26th, 2020, the Bloomberg campaign's official Twitter campaign, @Mike2020, tweeted a link advertising new hats available at their store. The hats read "Not a socialist" on the front and "Bring in the Boss" on the back.^[1] The tweet advertising the hats (shown below) has since been deleted.

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The hats were immediately mocked by Twitter users. User @kenlowery^[2] wrote, "I have joked before that Bloomberg is just 'Trump with a blue hat instead of a red one' and holy fucking christ they actually did that," gaining over 150 retweets and 470 likes (shown below, left). User @MichaelWhitney joked, "that famous figure every American loves, their boss," gaining over 50 likes (shown below, right).

Others made parodies of the hat. User @HowlinFantods posted a version of the hat where Bloomberg's slogan was replaced with a guillotine, gaining over 65 likes (shown below, left). @BloombergMemes posted a hat with Bloomberg's entry in Jeffrey Epstein's black book (shown below, right).

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