Billionaire Mark Cuban made inflammatory remarks on Thursday during an appearance on “The View,” demeaning women who are supportive of and allies of former President Donald Trump. Cuban made the comments while speaking to host Alyssa Farah Griffin.
“Donald Trump is not even asking Nikki Haley for her help to try to reach her voters,” Griffin said. “What do you make of that and do you think having people like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and other Republicans with Kamala Harris is going to put her over the edge with these Nikki Haley supporters?”
“Yes, it will put her over the edge with Nikki Haley supporters,” Cuban said before making the insulting comments about women who are regularly around Trump.
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple,” Cuban said. “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.”
Nikki Haley, whom Cuban mentioned, was “around” Trump during his term as president when he named her the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018. In 2023, Haley became Trump’s main political rival during the Republican primary; however, she finished a distant second in the overall voting. After the primary, Haley announced her support for Trump in the presidential election. She reiterated her support for him during an appearance on Fox News earlier this week.
While commenting to Griffin, the Shark Tank host and Dallas Mavericks owner failed to mention women such as Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR), who served as a senior adviser on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and later as White House press secretary. He also failed to mention Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, former Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, former CIA Director Gina Haspel, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who served in the Trump administration. Cuban also failed to acknowledge that Trump had more women in top adviser roles than the administrations of former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
Cuban later tried to walk back his comments in a social media post on X, claiming that he was only referring to Nikki Haley’s absence from his campaign activities.
The former president took to social media later on Thursday to criticize Cuban’s comments, asserting he was wrong and that he regularly surrounded himself with “the strongest of women.”
“Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s ‘hot stuff’ but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women,” Trump posted. “Actually, he is very wrong. I surround myself with the strongest of women – with the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong.”
“This guy is such a fool, he’s constantly on television being critical, and only for the reason that I tuned him out completely while President because he called incessantly,” Trump added. “I told him, very pointedly, ‘Look Mark, I’ve got a lot of things to do, I just can’t be taking so many pointless calls from you. In any event, that affected him greatly, because he’s a very insecure guy, and a MAJOR LOSER, always has been and always will be! Nobody likes him, nobody respects him, and he’s unattractive both inside and out! He should go back to talk about the person he was forced to support, because I didn’t want it, Lyin’ Kamala Harris. Also, he’s got no clubhead speed!”