- Mark Cuban says Trump has turned the Republican Celebration into his personal “household enterprise.”
- “RNC? Right here comes the daughter-in-law. You understand who’s going to talk for him? His two sons,” he mentioned to CNBC.
- Cuban, a vocal Kamala Harris backer, has slammed Trump for his enterprise ethics and core values.
Mark Cuban mentioned former President Donald Trump has made the Republican Celebration his “household enterprise.”
In an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Pod” on Thursday, Cuban mentioned the GOP presidential candidate with billionaire hedge fund supervisor David Tepper and SEC chief Gary Gensler.
“All we have seen Donald Trump do is rent his family members,” Cuban informed Tepper and Gensler. “Proper? RNC? Right here comes the daughter-in-law. You understand who’s going to talk for him? His two sons.”
“Hey, we have got a brand new silver coin! Right here come the sons!” he mentioned.
Cuban added: “The household enterprise is now the Republican Celebration.”
The previous president has 5 youngsters — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Barron Trump.
When he was president, Trump was recognized to lean on Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. The couple have been key figures in Trump’s White Home interior circle.
This yr, Trump handpicked his daughter-in-law Lara Trump — who’s married to his third baby, Eric — to cochair the Republican Nationwide Committee. Lara Trump is a former TV information producer and has been a fixture in her father-in-law’s political profession.
“My very gifted daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, has agreed to run because the RNC Co-Chair,” the previous president mentioned in a assertion in February. “Lara is an especially gifted communicator and is devoted to all that MAGA stands for.”
Eric Trump, in the meantime, has labored for his father’s companies. However the youthful Trump son was a part of a yearslong civil investigation into the Trump Group’s enterprise dealings — and took part in a six-hour deposition in 2020 that noticed him invoking his Fifth Modification proper in opposition to self-incrimination greater than 500 instances.
Donald Trump Jr., who’s now a podcaster, spoke passionately on the RNC this yr in assist of his father’s nomination. He additionally occurs to be the cofounder of Successful Crew Publishing, which produces books about his father.
Trump has additionally tapped his youngest son, Barron, for recommendation on how to attract in Gen Z voters.
In August, he mentioned his 18-year-old son talked him into an interview with the high-profile streamer Adin Ross.
Cuban sounds off on the Trump household
This isn’t the primary time the “Shark Tank” billionaire investor has criticized Trump for protecting issues within the household.
“For all Trump supporters. A query. Which startups has Donald Trump ever invested in that did not contain a member of the family?”Cuban star wrote in an X put up on September 8.
“You spend money on companies. Proper? What number of tremendous rich enterprise folks are you aware which have by no means determined to provide even one entrepreneur a shot by investing of their enterprise?” Cuban wrote in response to a put up by X consumer Chart Westcott.
Within the X put up, he added that each different rich individual he knew, besides Trump, had tried to assist others.
Cuban additionally just lately criticized Trump for threatening to impose a 200% tariff on John Deere if it strikes its manufacturing to Mexico.
“Good solution to destroy a legendary American firm and enhance prices to American patrons,” Cuban wrote in an X put up on Monday.
Throughout an interview with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on September 17, Cuban additionally informed the progressive commentator that Trump, to him, is “the antithesis” of somebody with good character.
“I believe they imagine they will manipulate him. I believe they perceive that he is so transactional and so devoid of core values that something that they need they will manipulate him to get,” Cuban mentioned of Silicon Valley backers of Trump.
Cuban has endorsed Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and staunchly backed her financial agenda, calling her “pro-business.”
And through an interview with Axios in March, he mentioned that he would a lot moderately favor President Joe Biden or Harris to a “snake oil salesperson” like Trump.
Cuban and representatives of Trump did not instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider, despatched outdoors enterprise hours.
