Last Friday night, at a rally in Michigan, former President Donald Trump faced the crowd behind him, paced the stage, and stood in front of a dysfunctional mic that dropped out mid-speech. Apparently that went on for almost 20 minutes. One reporter on the ground said he couldn’t see urgency among the technical staff from where he was standing. The crowd still raised its signs and cheered, although they seemed to look a bit confused the longer he was silent. I might just add: Michigan is a swing state that will be critical in the election outcome.
When the mic came back on, Trump said: “I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company that rented us this crap…if it goes out again, I’ll sue the ass off that company. We’re going to sue them. Then they’ll say what a horrible guy Trump is.”
Well Mark Cuban seems to agree. Late last night, on X, Cuban wrote: “How any business person or working American can vote for someone who would call out a vendor and say he won’t pay him for having a problem, when he has no idea how it was caused, is horrific. Then saying he would sue him again if it went out again. That’s even worse.”
He continued: “THIS is who Donald Trump is. He [couldn’t] care less about hard working Americans and Small Business.”
The famed Shark Tank billionaire judge, and one of Vice President Kamala Harris’s firecest advocates, has been pretty vocal about his disdain for the former president (and potentially the our next president), or maybe more so his policies and rhetoric. Recently, at a Harris rally in Wisconsin, he mocked Trump’s proposal on tariffs, one his favorite talking points, suggesting they’d raise taxes for everyone.
On another occasion, Cuban said the race was basically between Harris and Elon Musk, not Trump. In the last couple of weeks, Musk has doubled down on his support for the Republican presidential candidate, whether that be jumping jacks in excitement at a rally or handing out $1 million a day until the election to those residing in a swing state who sign his online petition in support of the First and Second amendments. “Elon is running the ground game for the Republicans. And that is really what the race is all about the last two weeks,” Cuban previously said in a statement to Fortune.
But what has Trump said about hard working Americans and small businesses? For the latter, he’s said he’ll slash regulations and cut corporate taxes. In terms of his thoughts on hard-working Americans, that’s trickier. During a recent interview, he kind of insulted auto workers across the country by insinuating a child could do their jobs. The United Auto Workers union wasn’t happy. Then again, he manned a fry station at a McDonald’s over the weekend and said the job required great expertise.
But of course, Trump has promised to “create a great economy,” because he claims to have done so before. In theory, that’d serve small businesses and hard-working Americans. What we know for certain is he doesn’t have Cuban’s vote.
