Introducing Hillary Clinton at a rally in his hometown of Pittsburgh, billionaire sports and TV mogul Mark Cuban formally endorsed the Democratic ticket, calling Donald Trump “batshit crazy.”
“Leadership is not yelling and screaming and intimidating,” said Cuban to a roaring crowd. “You know what we call a person like that in Pittsburgh? A jagoff! Is there any bigger jagoff in the world than Donald Trump?”
Besides owning the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban has made a national name for himself, much like Trump, in reality television. As a judge on Shark Tank Cuban says he would question Trump’s boasts of personal wealth.
Cuban says he backs Clinton because she is “a true leader.”
“I am ready to vote for the American Dream,” said Cuban. “I am ready to tell the world that I am here to endorse Hillary Clinton.”
Cuban’s colleague on Shark Tank, billionaire New York real estate tycoon Barbara Corcoran, is also critical of Trump who she’s known since the 1980’s.
“When I heard he was running for president I thought it was a joke,” said Corcoran in an interview. “There are traits that have to be a part of any great leader that just don’t exist in Trump: fairness, fair play, no bullying, no name-calling, creating consensus in a population that has great diversity, not making people divide and hate each other, not appealing to the worst base note in the human being. He does all of those things particularly well.”
Cuban said he had wanted to jump on Trump’s bandwagon earlier this year, but in the end couldn’t do it.
“Donald, initially, I really hoped he would be something different, that as a businessperson, I thought there was an opportunity there,” said Cuban. “But then he went off the reservation and went batshit crazy.”