Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban has been a vocal opponent of former President Trump.
Cuban endorsed Trump's previous opponents Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, and Trump's 2024 opponent Kamala Harris, while berating Trump with insults dating back to 2016.
But Cuban was not always a critic of Trump.
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Cuban supported Biden over Trump in 2020. (Fake Images)
Cuban has said he supported the former president when Trump initially launched his first presidential campaign in 2015. Cuban elaborated on his initial support for Trump during an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy on X on Wednesday.
“In 2015 I thought, 'This is great. This is not your typical Stepford candidate.' I thought that was a positive thing,” Cuban said.
Cuban added that one of the main reasons he initially supported Trump was because he did not believe in his chances of winning the presidency and was simply looking to make a statement about the state of American politics.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (Tim Heitman/Getty Images)
“A lot of it was because I didn't think he had a chance. He just wanted to mess things up in traditional politics, which I'm not a big fan of,” Cuban said.
Cuban was so enamored with Trump in 2015, that the “Shark Tank” host even said he would consider being Trump's running mate in the 2016 election in an interview with Business Insider in July 2015. Cuban previously praised Trump and what he stood for in a post on Cuban's own “Cyberdust” social media app earlier that month, highlighting the fact that Trump did not come from a traditional political background.
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“I don't care about his actual positions,” Cuban wrote on the application. “I don't care if he says the wrong thing. He speaks his mind. He gives honest answers instead of canned responses. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years.”
Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban walks off the court after the Mavericks' loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder at American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron/USA Today Sports)
But times have changed. Cuban quickly reversed his support for Trump during the 2016 election cycle and has since insulted the former president.
In the interview with Ramaswamy, Cuban singled out Trump's ethics as the reason he has opposed him as president since 2016.
“He was unethical then and he's unethical now,” Cuban said.
Cuban then pointed to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election as an example of his ethics.
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Mark Cuban and Donald Trump at a press conference to officially announce the M-1 Global Affliction “Trilogy” at Trump Tower on June 3, 2009, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)
“The man told Mike Pence not to certify the election,” Cuban said of Trump. “The man has stolen from more hard-working Americans than anyone else. [president].”
Earlier this year, when Biden was still the likely Democratic nominee, Cuban went so far as to say he would vote for Biden over Trump even if Biden was “receiving his last rites.”
“If they were having his last wake and it was him against Trump, and they were administering the last rites to him, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban told Bloomberg News in March.
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