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 # The US Government-in-Exile Has a New President

 

##### And Mike Bloomberg has a big new platform.

 

 

 Sep 25, 2017 5:35 PM ET

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[Originally posted on www.buzzfeed.com. ](https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/president-mike?utm_term=.xxq1ZlrXl#.qdPx04z74)

The annual Manhattan conference hosted for a decade by the Clinton Global Initiative became a kind of shorthand for what some hated about the Clintons: a mix of worthy and venal motives, a slosh of money and shady rich people around their world, and flashy and enduring relationships with autocrats in the Gulf.  
  
Tomorrow, Bill Clinton will hand what used to be CGI's main event off to Mike Bloomberg. And Bloomberg is reviving part of the event’s original role as a kind of US government in exile. The conference was created during the worst of the Iraq War and amid intense American isolation. European and Middle Eastern allies loathed George W. Bush, and turned instead to the open and sympathetic face of Bill Clinton's America.  
  
Bloomberg’s move to take over the conference (renamed the Bloomberg Global Business Forum) hasn’t drawn much attention, but it’s worth seeing in that context: The former New York mayor is inheriting not a conference, but a platform for an alternative American diplomacy. (Bloomberg, Axios wrote on [breaking](https://www.axios.com/michael-bloomberg-is-the-new-clinton-2475330597.html) the news, is "the new Clinton.")

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