Billionaire entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban has issued an apology and clarification following backlash over feedback he made criticizing former President Donald Trump.
In an interview on Thursday’s broadcast of “The View,” Cuban had mentioned that Trump doesn’t encompass himself with “robust, clever girls,” suggesting that’s why the Republican politician hasn’t been seen these days with Nikki Haley, his onetime presidential main opponent turned supporter.
“Donald Trump, you by no means see him round robust, clever girls, ever. It’s simply that easy. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t prefer to be challenged by them,” mentioned Cuban, who has been stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic rival within the 2024 White Home race.
“Nikki Haley will name him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and the way he sees and treats and talks about girls. I imply, he simply can’t have her round. It wouldn’t work,” he added on the ABC discuss present.
(Cuban’s feedback could be heard on the 23-minute mark here.)
His remarks had been subsequently seen by many as a criticism of any girl who helps Trump, one thing that the presidential candidate and others instantly pounced on.
“All robust girls, and ladies usually, ought to be indignant about this weak man’s assertion,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. Trump additionally referred to as Cuban, who initially supported him within the 2016 presidential election, “a very dumb man” and mentioned that “no one respects him.”
Following his TV look, Cuban sought to make clear his feedback and apologize to anybody offended.
“After I mentioned this in the course of the interview, I didn’t get it out precisely the best way I believed I did. So I apologize to anybody who felt slighted or upset by my response,” he said in a Friday post on X, previously Twitter. “As I mentioned, it wasn’t about Trump voters, supporters or workers. Present or former.”
In a separate post, he wrote that he is aware of “many robust, clever girls voting for Trump. Together with in my prolonged household.”
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He went on to call folks like GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway and former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao as examples of “robust clever girls” who’ve labored with Trump.
“I stand by my opinion that he doesn’t like being challenged publicly,” Cuban added.
