Mark Cuban Remembers E-mail From Trump As He Unpacks How He ‘Grew Out Of’ Being A Fan

Billionaire Mark Cuban has shed extra gentle on his causes for distancing himself from former President Donald Trump.

“I’m not a Trump fan at all,” he stated on Wednesday’s episode of the “This Past Weekend” podcast. “Used to be, but then kind of grew out of it.”

When Trump introduced his bid for the White Home in 2015, Cuban had referred to as his candidacy the “best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.”

Trying again at that second on “This Past Weekend,” Cuban recalled how he finally started to vary his thoughts, citing a comment that Trump made after the “Shark Tank” star criticized him publicly.

“What he would do is, he would write it, and then somebody would scan it, and then they’d email it to me. And so he sent me ‘What happened?’ because he saw a CNN interview where I criticized him. And I literally, I told him, I’m like: ‘You’ve got to start learning the issues, right? You can’t just talk,’” Cuban stated.

“All these things are important, and if you’re going to be president and … you’ve got a chance to win, then you’ve got to learn this stuff. And I just never felt he made an effort to learn anything. Not just that, but anything, right? And so whenever you try to get into a conversation about details, it never worked,” he continued.

Final month on “The Daily Show,” Cuban mirrored on one other interplay that shifted his opinion of Trump’s character, recalling how the previous president acted as if he was above assembly with small-business homeowners.

“He goes: ‘Mark, Donald Trump and Mark Cuban don’t go to people’s houses and have dinner. Are you kidding me?’” Cuban recalled. “That’s who he is.”

Cuban, who describes himself as an unbiased voter, made a number of media appearances this week during which he slammed the Republican and voiced help for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent within the 2024 White Home race.

On Tuesday, he stated Trump is unable to show depth or nuance on coverage.

“Whenever Donald Trump says something, everybody else has to explain for him what he said, right?” Cuban instructed MSNBC. He contrasted that with the Democratic presidential nominee, arguing that she “says what she says [and] everybody knows what she means. That is such a stark difference between the two.”