Billionaire Mark Cuban has shed extra mild on his causes for distancing himself from former President Donald Trump.
“I’m not a Trump fan in any respect,” he said on Wednesday’s episode of the “This Previous Weekend” podcast. “Was, however then sort of grew out of it.”
When Trump introduced his bid for the White Home in 2015, Cuban had called his candidacy the “smartest thing to occur to politics in a protracted, very long time.”
Wanting again at that second on “This Previous Weekend,” Cuban recalled how he ultimately started to alter his thoughts, citing a comment that Trump made after the “Shark Tank” star criticized him publicly.
“What he would do is, he would write it, after which anyone would scan it, after which they’d e-mail it to me. And so he despatched me ‘What occurred?’ as a result of he noticed a CNN interview the place I criticized him. And I actually, I advised him, I’m like: ‘You’ve received to begin studying the problems, proper? You’ll be able to’t simply discuss,’” Cuban mentioned.
“All this stuff are necessary, and for those who’re going to be president and … you’ve received an opportunity to win, then you definately’ve received to study these things. And I simply by no means felt he made an effort to study something. Not simply that, however something, proper? And so everytime you attempt to get right into a dialog about particulars, it by no means labored,” he continued.
Final month on “The Every day Present,” Cuban mirrored on one other interplay that shifted his opinion of Trump’s character, recalling how the previous president acted as if he was above assembly with small-business homeowners.
“He goes: ‘Mark, Donald Trump and Mark Cuban don’t go to folks’s homes and have dinner. Are you kidding me?’” Cuban recalled. “That’s who he’s.”
Cuban, who describes himself as an impartial voter, made a number of media appearances this week by which he slammed the Republican and voiced assist for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent within the 2024 White Home race.
On Tuesday, he mentioned Trump is unable to show depth or nuance on coverage.
“Each time Donald Trump says one thing, everyone else has to clarify for him what he mentioned, proper?” Cuban told MSNBC. He contrasted that with the Democratic presidential nominee, arguing that she “says what she says [and] everyone is aware of what she means. That’s such a stark distinction between the 2.”
