December 28, 2024

Donald Trump and Mark Cuban

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Former President Donald Trump criticized billionaire Mark Cuban on Saturday, who has been a vocal supporter of his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Mark Cuban is a loser,” Trump wrote on Saturday truth society postal. “Stop taking his calls while in the White House and he went rogue. A weak and pathetic ‘bully’ who accomplished nothing. Very low club head speed and totally unathletic!”

Trump’s insults came days after Cuban mocked the Republican presidential candidate’s tariff proposals at a Harris campaign rally.

“Let me tell you, this guy knows very little about tariffs and he thinks China pays for them,” Cuban said of Trump at a Harris rally in Wisconsin on Thursday.

Trump proposed imposing a general tariff of 20% on all imported products and a higher 60% tariff on Chinese imports. The plan has been criticized by economists, who note that U.S. importers and consumers will ultimately bear the cost burden of such a tough approach.

The animosity between the two billionaires was a clear turning point in 2015, when Cuban praised Trump as “the best thing to happen to politics in a long time.”fox and friends” interview.

Trump in turn thanked him for his kind words.

Cuban ultimately supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. In the years since, his once-friendly relationship with Trump has grown even frostier.

Cuban has become a regular surrogate for the Harris campaign this election cycle as the vice president works to cast himself as a pro-growth capitalist.

The former “Shark Tank” host may have his sights set on a government position of his own, such as having repeatedly floated the idea of ​​replacing SEC Chairman Gary Gensler.

Meanwhile, Trump has hired Elon Musk to serve as his billionaire campaign surrogate, intensifying another rivalry with Cuban.

“You can be one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the world in the last century and be a damn troll at the same time,” Cuban said of Musk in an interview Friday. interview About “Bill Maher’s Real Time”.

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