Getty Trump and Bloomberg seek to bury the hatchet in lengthy phone call

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a self-made billionaire who considered mounting his own third party presidential bid this year but ultimately quelled his own ambitions for fear of helping to elect Donald Trump — phoned the president-elect on Monday.

It was a “very good talk, and long,” said a source familiar with the discussion, who would not elaborate on the details. Trump and Bloomberg — who made two cameos on “The Apprentice” and has golfed with his fellow Manhattan business mogul in the past — had not spoken since the former Republican mayor delivered a scorching anti-Trump screed at the Democratic National Convention and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

In one of the most dramatic moments of the July Democratic convention, Bloomberg called Trump a “dangerous demagogue” and used his post as a real self-made New York businessman to try and unmask Trump as a fraud. “I’m a New Yorker and New Yorkers know a con when we see one,” he said.

Trump retaliated on Twitter, poking the diminutive billionaire by calling him “little Michael Bloomberg.”

In an op-ed announcing he would not run, Bloomberg also said, “Trump appeals to our worst impulses" and accused him of running the most "divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people's prejudices and fears."

Bloomberg’s call with Trump was a sign of a thaw, as former detractors — such as Mitt Romney, who is being considered as secretary of state — come to accept the election results and seek to open a channel of communication with the incoming administration. But it is unlikely that Bloomberg, who has gone back to running his eponymous media company, would have any interest in joining the administration.

A Bloomberg spokesman declined to comment.