to know about about the former starbucks ceo and potential 2020 candidate president trump fired back at schultz in an early morning tweet monday if i run for president i will run as an american under one banner the american flag schultz said 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 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 im in this because i love the country and im profoundly concerned with the direction were in as schultz began to speak at the event he was interrupted by a heckler who was escorted out by security watched him on 60minutes last night and i agree with him that he is not the smartest person and im not trying to win the twitter primary schultz added