Mark Cuban Tells The View You ‘Never’ See Trump ‘Around Strong, Intelligent Women’
Mark Cuban told The View on Thursday that you “never” see former President Donald Trump around “strong, intelligent women.”
Mark Cuban appeared on The View via video link and when being asked about Trump not courting Nikki Haley voters, he accused Trump of avoiding “strong, intelligent” women like Haley. Cuban is a campaign surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can’t have her around. It wouldn’t work,” the Shark Tank investor said.
Cuban was an early supporter of Trump but has said he “grew out” of it when he felt Trump did not want to learn actual policy enough.
The hosts tried cleaning up the comment before moving on with Joy Behar calling Stormy Daniels a “very smart” woman. Trump continues to deny to this day ever having an affair with Daniels. In May, Trump was found guilty of multiple felony counts related to a hush money payment made to Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. Trump also continues to deny knowledge of this payment.
“I think Stormy is intelligent. I don’t think that’s 100%. She’s very smart,” Behar told Cuban.
Alyssa Farah Griffin and Whoopi Goldberg both then jumped in to clarify what they felt Cuban meant before Sunny Hostin took the next question.
“He means onstage,” Goldberg said.
In a statement to Mediaite, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on Harris to condemn Cuban’s “disrespectful insult to women,” saying his comments are “extremely insulting” to the thousands of women working for Trump and the millions voting for him.
The statement reads:
Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage, and now Kamala’s top surrogate Mark Cuban insinuated female Trump supporters are “weak and dumb.” This is extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are voting for him. These women are mothers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders and they are, indeed, strong AND intelligent, despite what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say. The joy at Kamala HQ has been replaced by division, vitriol, and a disturbing level of disrespect for the millions of Americans who are supporting President Trump after four years of destruction under Kamala Harris. Women want a President who will secure our border, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods, and put more money in our pockets — and that’s exactly why we are supporting President Trump. Kamala Harris must immediately condemn Mark Cuban’s disrespectful insult to women.
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