Billionaire enterprise proprietor Mark Cuban, who’s supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in subsequent week’s election, has apologized for feedback he made about her Republican opponent.
On Thursday, the Dallas Mavericks proprietor mentioned throughout an look on ABC’s The View that former President Donald Trump didn’t encompass himself with “sturdy, clever ladies.” Cuban made the remark in response to co-host and former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin’s query about Trump not asking Nikki Haley, the previous South Carolina governor who ran for the Republican presidential nomination earlier within the race, to assist him bolster help from feminine voters.
“Donald Trump, you by no means see him round sturdy, clever ladies. Ever. It is simply that easy. They’re intimidating to him. He would not prefer to be challenged by them,” Cuban mentioned. “Nikki Haley will name him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and the way he sees and treats and talks about ladies. I imply, he simply cannot have her round. It would not work.”
Addressing his feedback, Cuban wrote on X, previously Twitter: “Once I mentioned this throughout the interview, I did not get it out precisely the best way I believed I did. So I apologize to anybody who felt slighted or upset by my response. As I mentioned, it wasn’t about Trump voters, supporters or workers. Present or former.”
Once I mentioned this throughout the interview, I did not get it out precisely the best way I believed I did. So I apologize to anybody who felt slighted or upset by my response. As I mentioned, it wasn’t about trump voters, supporters or workers. Present or former
And, I set myself up for the 6… https://t.co/u0BNmrHiaL
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 1, 2024
Cuban’s feedback on The View drew ire from Trump, those that have labored with him and his supporters. The previous president launched an announcement on Fact Social, branding Cuban a “idiot” and a “main loser.”
“All sturdy ladies, and girls generally, must be indignant about this weak man’s assertion,” Trump wrote.
Republicans and Trump allies flocked to defend the previous president. Georgia Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene, one among Trump’s most vocal supporters, launched a video message on X in response to Cuban’s remarks, saying, “This is the issue with Mark Cuban: He suffers from low testosterone.”
“He is really intimidated by sturdy, clever ladies like me,” Greene added after doing pullups.
Mark Cuban on the TD Backyard in Boston on March 1, left, and former President Donald Trump at a marketing campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta on October 28. Cuban is dealing with a backlash after saying the Republican presidential nominee doesn’t encompass himself with “sturdy, clever ladies.”
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Kayleigh McEnany, who served as a press secretary in Trump’s White Home, mentioned she discovered Cuban’s assertion “profoundly offensive.”
“I labored for Donald Trump,” McEnany mentioned on Fox Information. “I think about myself a powerful lady. I think about these round me sturdy ladies.”
In March, Haley bowed out of the presidential race and later endorsed Trump, however she has not been on the marketing campaign path with him and has been crucial of his marketing campaign. Talking with Fox Information host Bret Baier on Tuesday, she mentioned Trump and his group had a “bromance” that “makes ladies uncomfortable.”
“You have bought affiliated PACs which might be doing commercials about calling Kamala the c-word,” Haley mentioned, referring to a current advert by Elon Musk’s political motion committee. “You had audio system at Madison Sq. Backyard referring to her and her ‘pimps.’ That isn’t the best way to win ladies.”