Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait appeared perplexed when the former president, 78, ignored his question on whether he'd choose to "break up Google's parent company, Alphabet," and instead spoke about a recent lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice.

"I just haven't gotten over something that the Justice Department did yesterday where Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes," he said. "And the Justice Department sued them, that they should be allowed to put those bad votes and illegal votes back in and let the people vote. So, I haven't gotten -- I haven't gotten over that. A lot of people have seen that and I can't believe it."

Micklethwait then reminded him, "But the question is about Google, President Trump."