FIRST ON FOX: Dozens of women in Trump's campaign and surrogates for the former president are criticizing Mark Cuban, calling his recent comments about pro-Trump women “misogynistic” and a “disgrace.”
The Trump campaign put together a video featuring current and former Trump staffers and surrogates, including former Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, former Council Chair of White House National Policy Brooke Rollins, NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, attorney Alina Habba, former ESPN host Sage Steele, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, Representatives Lisa McClain and Anna Paulina Luna, and Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake.
The video comes after Cuban, a top surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, appeared on ABC's “The View” Thursday morning when he made the controversial comments.
“Donald Trump, you never see him surrounded by strong, intelligent women. Never,” Cuban said. “It's that simple. They bully him. He doesn't like to be challenged.”
President Donald Trump (left) and Mark Cuban (right) (Getty Images)
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“'You never see Donald Trump surrounded by strong, intelligent women.' Is that the quote, Mark Cuban?” Steele says in the Trump campaign video.
“First of all, that's obviously wildly unintelligent,” Patrick says.
Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
“Not only are you arrogant, but you're also a misogynist,” says the Trump campaign's black media director, Janiyah Thomas.
“It's a shame and Kamala Harris remains silent,” Stefanik says.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and former President Trump, pictured at an event in New York. (Getty Images)
“How insulting is that?” says Kimberly Fletcher, executive director of Moms for America.
“Are you putting women down? President Trump doesn't do that,” Habba says. “He surrounds himself with strong women like me.”
“President Trump empowered me and all women in America,” says Huckabee Sanders.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as Trump's White House press secretary and later became governor of Arkansas. (Getty Images)
Rollins also appears and claims that there were “more women on senior staff, working mothers, than any other White House in the history of this country” under the Trump administration.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida attends a campaign rally for former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Aero Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 21, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The video is more than three minutes long and features more than 60 female Trump supporters.
“President Trump lifted up women and all Americans in his first term by putting more money in our pockets, expanding access to child care and paid family leave, and making our communities safer,” the press secretary said. Trump campaign national Karoline Leavitt to Fox News Digital. “In Kamala Harris' America, women are being raped and murdered by illegal aliens, and working mothers are struggling to buy basic food for their families.”
Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Trump campaign, is running for Congress in 2022. (Karoline Leavitt Campaign)
Leavitt added: “Smart, strong women across the country support President Trump because they know Kamala Harris broke our country, but President Trump will fix it.”
Harris' campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Cuban walked back his comments in a statement, saying: “First, I know many strong, intelligent women who vote for Trump. Even in my extended family. I'm certainly not saying that female voters aren't smart, strong and intelligent. Second “I know you have worked with strong, intelligent women, like Elaine Chao, Kelly Anne, Ivanka and many others.”
BIDEN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS 'TRASH' AT HARRIS CAMPAIGN EVENT AS VP PROMISES UNITY AT ELLIPSE RALLY
Cuban's comments came just days after President Biden appeared to refer to Trump supporters as “trash.”
Biden spoke during a Zoom call with Voto Latino, one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the United States, on Tuesday. Biden was asked about a comment made Sunday during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden responded: “The only trash I see floating around is his supporters.”
President Biden delivers a speech at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)
The White House has since denied that Biden called Trump supporters “trash” and claimed the comment was taken out of context.
And when asked about Biden's comments, Harris said, “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.”
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“I think the work I do is about representing all people, whether they support me or not,” Harris said. “And as president of the United States, I will be a president for all Americans, whether they vote for me or not.”
In Wisconsin on Wednesday, Trump drove a garbage truck emblazoned with “Make America Great Again,” wearing a garbage worker's high-visibility vest to address supporters at his rally in Green Bay.
Former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, speaks to reporters while sitting in a garbage truck on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP)
“He called you trash, and you mean it, although, without a doubt, my followers are of much higher quality than Crooked Joe and Lyin' Kamala,” Trump told his supporters Wednesday afternoon.
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But Trump said he had an answer for the president and vice president.
“My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: you can't lead America if you don't love Americans,” Trump declared. “And you can't be president if you hate the American people, and there's a lot of hate there.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Cuban for comment on the Trump campaign video.
