Billioniare reality TV star Mark Cuban is willing to give $10 million to charity if his fellow billioniare reality TV star Donald Trump will sit down with him to discuss his policy proposals.
Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and star of the show Shark Tank, has been highly critical of the economic proposals Trump has floated during the campaign.
“In the event Donald wins, I have no doubt in my mind the market tanks,” said Cuban. “We don’t know what Donald Trump’s plans are. Right now all we know are a little bit about his immigration, which tends to change on a day to day basis, and we know he’s going to reduce taxes significantly. The bottom line is, of all the things we can discuss, the one things the markets hate is uncertainty, and right now with Donald there’s uncertainty.”
To get answers directly from Trump, Cuban yesterday tweeted out the challenge:
.@realDonaldTrump You must have flunked economics at Fordham (when you didnt get into Penn). Your plan is jibberish https://t.co/k5DjwflUzA
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 16, 2016
.1) @realDonaldTrump $10mm to the charity of YOUR choice if you let ME interview you for 4 hrs on YOUR policies and their substance.
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 16, 2016
2) @realDonaldTrump groundrules are that you cant mention the Clintons or discuss anything other than the details and facts of yr plans and
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 16, 2016
3) @realDonaldTrump and no one else is in the room to help. Just me, you and a broadcast crew.
Deal ?
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 16, 2016
4)@realDonaldTrump I’ll add an option.If you need it, I’ll write you the check and you can keep the money rather than give it to charity
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 16, 2016
5) @realDonaldTrump In the inmortal words of YOU. “What do you have to lose ?”
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 16, 2016
Trump did not respond directly to Cuban’s challenge, but earlier he said the NBA owner was “not smart.”
“I know Mark and you know, the problem with Mark, he’s not smart enough to understand what we’re doing,” said Trump during an interview on Fox News. “He’s really not smart enough in my opinion to really understand what’s going on…he tweets me all the time, he sends me so many different tweets and calls me.”
The feud between the two has been ongoing. In 2013 Trump tweeted about Cuban:
Sorry folks, but Donald Trump is far richer and much better looking than dopey @mcuban!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2013
Back in August, Cuban, who has endorsed Hillary Clinton, also dinged Trump on his Clinton Foundation donation.
Anyone notice that Trump’s largest donation EVER before 2016 was to The Clinton Foundation? Guess he thinks it’s the best charity ever !!
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) August 25, 2016