Billionaire Mark Cuban’s current feedback about former President Trump by no means being seen round “sturdy” or “clever” ladies has earned him a frenzy of backlash, and now one in all his outdated on-line debate opponents is getting in on it.
Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines on Thursday launched a video on X mocking Cuban for his feedback.
“Mark Cuban, you wouldn’t know a powerful and clever feminine if she slapped you throughout the face. You are such a beta, you may truly type of like that,” Gaines mentioned. “If you’re a girl and a Trump supporter, then to Mark Cuban, you’re silly and weak.”
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Gaines recalled her earlier social media spat with Cuban on Sept. 27 over Vice President Kamala Harris’ dealing with of the border. Gaines ended up with the final phrase in that debate, as Cuban didn’t reply to Gaines’ thread when she introduced up that Harris’ proposed border invoice included funding for Ukraine and Israel and that greater than 320,000 migrant kids went lacking whereas crossing the border throughout Harris’ dealing with of the border. A report from the Division of Homeland Safety launched Aug. 21 revealed the Biden-Harris administration has misplaced observe of that variety of migrant kids who crossed the border with out mother and father.
Cuban’s feedback about Trump not being seen round “sturdy” or “clever” ladies got here throughout an look on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday morning.
“Donald Trump, you by no means see him round sturdy, clever ladies. Ever,” Cuban mentioned. “It’s simply that straightforward. They’re intimidating to him. He does not prefer to be challenged by them.”
Trump marketing campaign nationwide press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Cuban’s remarks.
“Joe Biden referred to as Trump supporters ‘rubbish,’ and now Kamala’s high surrogate Mark Cuban insinuated feminine Trump supporters are ‘weak and dumb,’” Leavitt advised Fox Information Digital.
“That is extraordinarily insulting to the 1000’s of ladies who work for President Trump, and the tens of hundreds of thousands of ladies who’re voting for him,” she mentioned. “These ladies are moms, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, and they’re, certainly, sturdy and clever, regardless of what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say.”
Considered one of Cuban’s closest enterprise companions as co-owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks is a girl who helps Trump.
The household of Miriam Adelson, who purchased nearly all of the Mavericks from Cuban final December, has donated $100 million to her Protect America political motion committee backing Trump’s presidential marketing campaign, in accordance with Front Office Sports. That determine is the most important political donation of any proprietor within the NBA, NFL, MLB or WNBA.
Adelson has additionally reportedly spent “tens of hundreds of thousands” extra to help Republicans in congressional races across the nation.
Cuban defended his enterprise relationship with the Trump megadonor in a current interview on FOX 5 Dallas.
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Entrepreneur Mark Cuban speaks at a marketing campaign occasion for Vice President Kamala Harris on the College of Wisconsin-La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Oct. 17. (Craig Lassig/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“Have you learnt how everyone seems to be voting who you’re employed with? Have you learnt how the house owners of your organization are voting? That is America. Individuals get to decide on their candidates and vote who they need, and that is what makes it superb,” he mentioned. “I’ve talked with my companions about it, they usually do not have a problem. They select what they select.”
In the meantime, Cuban has gone as far as to comply with others in Democratic circles by calling Trump a “fascist” amid current mainstream media comparisons of the forty fifth U.S. president to Adolf Hitler and his supporters to that of the Nazis in current weeks.
“Donald Trump shouldn’t be a traditional candidate,” Cuban advised Jonathan Karl in a current ABC interview. “And I believe it’s not a stretch to name Donald Trump a fascist.
“He’s speaking about ‘the enemy inside’ and going after individuals utilizing the navy. He’s talked about mass deportations, the place they’ll cease individuals on the road and test their papers. What does that remind you of? Speaking about knocking on doorways and pulling individuals out and deporting them, what does that remind you of? That’s fairly rattling near fascism, if not the definition of fascism.”
Earlier this yr, when Biden was nonetheless the presumptive Democratic nominee, Cuban went as far as to say he would vote for Biden over Trump even when Biden was “being given his final rites.”
Riley Gaines and Mark Cuban. (IMAGN)
“In the event that they have been having his final wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given final rites, I’d nonetheless vote for Joe Biden,” he advised Bloomberg Information in March.
Nonetheless, Cuban has additionally mentioned he supported Trump on the outset of the previous president’s first candidacy in 2015. He elaborated on his preliminary help of Trump throughout an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy on X on Aug. 7.
“In 2015, I used to be like, ‘He is nice. He is not a typical Stepford candidate.’ I assumed that was a optimistic,” Cuban mentioned. “An enormous a part of that’s I did not assume he had an opportunity. I simply needed to type of screw issues up in conventional politics, which I am not a fan of.”
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