Mark Cuban, the billionaire enterprise mogul and “Shark Tank” star, quashed hypothesis he shall be making a White Home run in 2028 — at the same time as he has turn out to be a outstanding voice towards Donald Trump’s agenda in Washington.
The Dallas Mavericks minority proprietor was requested if his identify could be on a poll within the close to future on the Ideas First conference, a gathering of conservatives who really feel politically homeless in Trump’s MAGA-fied model of the social gathering.
“Hell no. It’s not going to happen,” Cuban mentioned, earlier than joking to the gang gathered on the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C., roughly three blocks from the White Home, then quipped: “Okay, if y’all write in and I don’t have [a campaign].”
“No, I don’t want to be President. I’d rather fuck up health care,” a nod to the Price Plus drug firm he lately launched.
Cuban has teased a presidential run prior to now, exploring operating as an Impartial in 2020 and hiring a pollster to evaluate his prospects. He in the end determined towards it and threw his assist behind Joe Biden. Some current polling has even included his identify in an inventory of 2028 candidates that had him notching some assist in a crowded discipline.
Cuban served as a surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign and stumped for her in key swing states like Nevada and Wisconsin.
“I mean, it’s kind of fun, actually,” Cuban mentioned. “I learned that the Democrats can’t sell shit.”
He later added that if Democrats wish to learn to promote their concepts to the American public, they need to look to Trump for instance.
“It doesn’t mean … he can execute on that,” Cuban mentioned. “Right now, he’s still in the salesmanship stage, and I think now people are starting to ask, alright, it’s great to sell it now, can you execute on it?”
“Donald Trump puts PR over policy. He doesn’t want to govern. He wants to sell,” Cuban added.
Cuban doesn’t consider Trump will truly ship on his litany of marketing campaign guarantees, and that needs to be a boon for Democrats — if they will successfully make the case. He criticized Democrats for being “too reflexive” to Trump’s whims — a tactic they tried in 2024 when Harris emphasised Trump as a menace to democracy.
“I think there’s too much reflexology. ‘Trump sucks,’” Cuban mentioned. “How’d that work in the campaign? It didn’t.”
