new york billionaire and former ceo of starbucks howard schultz launched his book tour in new york city on monday but its his presidential ambitions that caused a stir at the sold out event inside a barnes noble as schultz began to speak at the event he was interrupted by a heckler who was escorted out by security dont help elect trump you egotistical billionaire ahole go back to getting ratioed on twitter go back to davos with the other billionaire elite who think they know how to run the world the heckler said a selfproclaimed lifelong democrat schultzs announcement that he is considering a run for president as an independent has caused concern from those among the democratic party with some saying it may split the antitrump votes and help his reelection bid on the eve of his national book tour schultz teased a potential presidential bid in an interview with cbs 60 minutes and took a swing at president trump telling anchor scott pelley i am seriously thinking of running for president i will run as a centrist independent outside of the twoparty system were living at a mostfragile time not only the fact that this president is not qualified to be the president but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing whats necessary on behalf of the american people and are engaged every single day in revenge politics more howard schultz everything you need to know about about the former starbucks ceo and potential 2020 candidate president trump fired back at schultz in an early morning tweet monday howard schultz doesnt have the guts to run for president watched him on 60minutes last night and i agree with him that he is not the smartest person besides america already has that i only hope that starbucks is still paying me their rent in trump tower schultz responded to the tweet saying that he thought president trump has been on the wrong side of almost every issue thenstarbucks ceo howard schultz pauses as he speaks to applaud employees at the starbucks annual shareholders meeting march 22 2017 in seattle elaine thompsonap file i dont think we should misjudge what the president views as strength and conviction its really weakness this has nothing to do with whats true and whats real im not going to respond to that its childish and im not trying to win the twitter primary schultz added another potential presidential contender michael bloomberg published a statement monday slamming independent bids acknowledging he once considered one as well more the view discusses howard schultzs possible 2020 bid as an independent given the strong pull of partisanship and the realities of the electoral college system there is no way an independent can win that is truer today than ever before bloomberg said in 2020 the great likelihood is that an independent would just split the antitrump vote and end up reelecting the president he added schultz took a moment during his event to