Trump Trashes Ex-Supporter Mark Cuban as ‘Insecure’ and ‘Weak’ Over ‘Intelligent Women’ Comment: ‘Couldn’t Take His Calls Anymore’
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at ex-supporter Mark Cuban over a controversial comment the Shark Tank investor made where he insisted Trump is never seen around “strong, intelligent women.”
Trump joined Fox & Friends on Saturday by phone and was asked about Cuban’s comments made this week on The View. While discussing Nikki Haley supporters, Cuban claimed Trump is intimidated by “intelligent women,” setting off backlash that led to Cuban offering an apology.
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can’t have her around. It wouldn’t work,” Cuban originally told The View.
Trump insulted Cuban, calling him “insecure,” “weak physically and mentally,” and even taking a shot at his golf game.
Trump said:
“I know Mark very well. He’s a very insecure guy. He can’t hit a golf ball more than 50 yards. He’s weak physically and mentally as far as I’m concerned, but I’ve known him for a long time. He would call me in the White House incessantly and finally I just couldn’t take his calls anymore and went to the other side, and he’s a guy that wants publicity, and when he said that — you know, he’s totally retracted his statement like weak people always do, they restrict their statements. But he was hit by some of the strongest — not human beings, women. He was hit by strongest people. It wasn’t men, it was women. He was hit women that make men look like babies because if you know many of the women that I deal with, that I have, and I could go over the list but the list is long, including the fact that I happen to be married to a rather strong woman who just right now happens to have the number one best seller in the whole wide world.”
In a post to X, Cuban admitted he did not “nail” his interview or get his point across the way he wanted.
“When I said this during the interview, I didn’t get it out exactly the way I thought I did. So I apologize to anyone who felt slighted or upset by my response. As I said, it wasn’t about trump voters, supporters or employees,” he said.
Cuban was a brief Trump supporter in 2016, previously explaining that he dropped his support for Trump when he felt like the Republican did not want to learn policy enough.
Trump claimed on Saturday that he’s been accused of the exact opposite of what Cuban accused him of. According to Trump, people have questioned how many “strong” women he has around him.
“I have been accused of the other. They said, couldn’t it be like, couldn’t you get some women that aren’t as strong,” he said. “I had more problems the other way until Mark Cuban came along.”
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