Billionaire Mark Cuban’s recent comments about former President Trump never being seen around “strong” or “smart” women have drawn backlash, and now one of his former online debate opponents is joining in on the debate.
Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines released a video Thursday of X mocking Cuban for his comments.
“Mark Cuban, you wouldn’t know a woman is strong and smart if she slapped you in the face. You’re a beta, you can actually be that,” Gaines said. “If you’re a woman and a Trump supporter, to Mark Cuban, you’re stupid and weak.”
Gaines recalled her previous social media spat with Cuban on Sept. 27 over Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of the border. Gaines ended up having the last word in that debate, as Cuban did not respond to Gaines’s point when she brought up that Harris’ proposed border bill includes funding for Ukraine and Israel and that more than 320,000 migrant children have gone missing while crossing the border during that time. Harris handles the border. A report from the Department of Homeland Security released on Aug. 21 found that the Biden-Harris administration has lost track of the number of migrant children crossing the border without their parents.
Cuban’s comments about Trump not being seen around “strong” or “smart” women came during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Thursday morning.
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, smart women. Never,” Cuban said. “It’s as simple as that. They intimidate him. He doesn’t like being challenged by them.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized Cuban’s remarks.
“Joe Biden called Trump supporters ‘trash,’ and now Kamala’s top surrogate Mark Cuban is insinuating female Trump supporters are ‘weak and stupid,’” Leavitt told Fox News Digital.
“This is incredibly insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump and the tens of millions of women who voted for him,” she said. “These women are mothers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, and they are truly strong and smart, despite what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say.”
One of Cuban’s closest business partners as a co-owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks is a Trump supporter.
The family of Miriam Adelson, who bought the majority of the Mavericks from Cuban last December, has donated $100 million to her political action committee Preserve America to support Trump’s presidential campaign, according to reports. Office Sports. That figure is the largest political donation by any owner in the NBA, NFL, MLB or WNBA.
Adelson has also reportedly spent “tens of millions” more to support Republicans in congressional races across the country.
Cuban defended his business relationship with the major Trump donor in a recent interview with FOX 5 Dallas.
Businessman Mark Cuban speaks at a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Oct. 17. (Craig Lassig/AFP via Getty Images)
“Do you know how the people you work with vote? Do you know how the owners of your company vote? This is America. People can choose their candidates and vote for who they want, and that’s what makes it so great,” he said. “I’ve talked to my partners about it and they have no problem with it. They choose what they choose.”
Meanwhile, Cuban has gone so far as to join others in the Democratic establishment in calling Trump a “fascist” amid recent mainstream media comparisons of the 45th president of the United States to Adolf Hitler and his supporters to Nazis in recent weeks.
“Donald Trump is not a normal candidate,” Cuban told Jonathan Karl in a recent interview with ABC. “And I don’t think it’s too much to call Donald Trump a fascist.
“He’s talking about the ‘enemy within’ and going after people using the military. He’s talking about mass deportations, where they’re going to stop people on the street and check their papers. What does that remind you of? Talking about knocking on doors and pulling people out and deporting them, what does that remind you of? That’s pretty close to fascism, if not the definition of fascism.”
Earlier this year, when Biden was still the presumptive Democratic nominee, Cuban went so far as to say that he would vote for Biden over Trump even if Biden “was given the last rites.”
Riley Gaines and Mark Cuban. (Image)
“If they were seeing his last, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given the last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” he told Bloomberg News in March.
However, Cuban also said he supported Trump from the start during the former president’s first run for office in 2015. He elaborated on his initial support for Trump in an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy on X on Aug. 7.
“In 2015, I was like, ‘He’s great. He’s not your typical Stepford candidate.’ I thought that was a positive thing,” Cuban said. “A big part of it was that I didn’t think he had a chance. I just wanted to screw things up in traditional politics, which I’m not a fan of.”
