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Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg suggested during a 2016 talk that farming and factory work require less “gray matter” than modern technology jobs.

“I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer,” Bloomberg told the audience at the Distinguished Speakers Series at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. “It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”

The former three-term New York City mayor also addressed workers’ skills during the Industrial Revolution.

“You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture, now it’s 2 percent in the United States,” Bloomberg said.

He then pointed out the difference between the economy then and today’s information economy.

“It’s built around replacing people with technology, and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter,” Bloomberg said.

The clip of Bloomberg’s comments was first posted online last Friday and went viral late Sunday after percolating over the weekend.

“The Trump team is tweeting out a video that cuts off the first part of Mike’s sentence where he said ‘if you think about the agrarian society [that] lasted 3000 years, we could teach processes.’ Mike wasn’t talking about today’s farmers at all, and Team Trump is deliberately misleading Americans because Donald Trump’s erratic policies have devastated American farms, including a 20% increase in US Farm bankruptcies last year,” Stu Loeser, a senior adviser on the Bloomberg campaign, said in a statement.

“Donald Trump inherited his wealth yet bankrupted businesses in cities around the world. As President, he’s hurting American farms, and he knows that Mike Bloomberg has the skills to fix the problem,” Loeser added.

The remarks about farmers and factory workers in the resurfaced clip come as Bloomberg has been criticized by Republicans and fellow Democratic candidates over controversial statements he has made about stop-and-frisk, the practice of redlining and the sexist environment that existed at his media company.

Some Democratic hopefuls also complained about Bloomberg — whose worth is estimated at $60 billion — trying to buy his way into the 2020 election with his immense national advertising blitz.

Bloomberg, who has spent more than $400 million of his fortune on the ad campaign as of Monday, decided to opt out of the first four primary elections to concentrate his efforts in the 14 states that go to the polls on March 3 for Super Tuesday.

“The point is that $60 billion can buy you a lot of advertising, but it can’t erase your record,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”