Mark Cuban claims he’s no longer a Trump fan because he wouldn’t take his advice: ‘I literally told him…’

Billionaire leftist Mark Cuban claimed in a discussion that he used to be a Trump supporter but then switched over time because of reasons.

“I’m not a Trump fan at all,” he said this week on comedian Theo Von’s podcast. “I used to be, but then kind of grew out of it.”

He explained that while he was initially excited about the idea of a non-political figure entering the arena like a bull in a china shop, the charm wore off the more he interacted with former President Donald Trump.

Why? Allegedly because Cuban found it impossible to get Trump to address the “details” of any issue — which, incidentally, is the same criticism that Vice President Kamala Harris now faces, albeit from everybody else but Cuban, who’s a loyal supporter.

“I literally, I told him, you’ve got to start learning the issues,” he said.  “You can’t just talk. At some point all of these things are important and if you’re going to be president, you’ve got a chance to win, then you’ve got to learn this stuff, and I just felt he never made an effort to learn anything.”

Listen to the whole discussion below:

(Video Credit: Theo Von)

In a previous discussion last month with leftist comedian Jon Stewart, Cuban expounded further on what killed Trump’s initial appeal.

“I think you’ve said this, that Trump appealed to you at first because there is a certain outsider — and look, we both know our government, there is a status quo and there is a capture by lobbies and by big businesses that write this legislation and end up gaining advantage and that needs to be disrupted,” the discussion began with Stewart saying.

“When did it occur to you that he didn’t necessarily want to free it, he wanted to have the deed to the swamp signed over to him?” he then asked.

“About the third time I talked to him,” Cuban replied. “He wasn’t about changing.”

As alleged proof, he cited the time Trump threatened to pull out of a CNBC debate in 2015.

“We were talking about this one debate for CNBC that he wasn’t going to be at,” Cuban said. “I’m like, Donald, why don’t you go to a local small business and sit there at the table and show off your business chops and show people you’re a businessman.”

“He goes, ‘Mark, Donald Trump and Mark Cuban don’t go to people’s houses and have dinner, are you kidding me?’ That’s who he is,” the billionaire leftist added.

Cuban also claimed that when he tried to speak with Trump about his “ground game,” the then-GOP presidential nominee dismissed the need, claiming that he’s got “all these religious people who are going do the work for me.”

Listen to the full discussion below:

(Video Credit: The Daily Show)

Last month Cuban also held a Twitter/X poll asking which “persona and character would you like to see young children grow to have” — Trump’s or Harris’. Despite him expecting most participants to vote for Harris, most in fact voted for Trump.

Regardless of Cuban’s obvious hatred for Trump, he did once come to the former president’s defense. This happened in March when Rep. Ted Lieu, a rabid Democrat, posted a tweet accusing Trump of being broke because he couldn’t afford to pay a $464 million bond in his New York case.

“Trump claims he is a billionaire,” Lieu wrote. “But he can’t pay a $464 million judgment. That means he is lying. How do I know? Math. #TrumpIsBroke.”

Responding to Lieu’s tweet a day later, Cuban said that while he’s certainly no Trump supporter (he’s about as anti-Trump as they get), the congressman’s criticism was false.

“Ted, you know I’m no supporter of Trump. That’s for damn sure,” he wrote. “How anyone can vote for someone who has so many of his executive employees turn on him, and, say he is incompetent is beyond me. But you are wrong on this topic Ted.”

Cuban proceeded to give Lieu a lesson in NET WORTH, though the lesson was tinged with plenty of Cuban’s own anti-Trump animus.

“Net worth is completely different than cash in the bank,” he explained. “We were in a zero interest rate environment for a long, long time. So keeping cash in the bank or even money markets was dumb. In fact, searching for yield is what killed small banks last year.”

“Also dumb was keeping interest rates that low for that long. Something Trump demanded more of. So you can argue that Trump put himself in this situation by making sure that the only way to grow his net worth was noncash investments,” he added.

“You can also argue Trump sucked at growing his net worth which led to him putting himself in this position by lying to banks about his assets. There is only one reason to lie on a loan application – you have to,” he continued.

Vivek Saxena

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