Mark Cuban said the advice he gave Trump was often ignored

• Mark Cuban told the hosts of the “All-In” podcast that he used to talk a lot with former President Donald Trump.
• During Trump’s 2016 campaign, Cuban said he tried to offer some advice but was not listened to.
• Cuban said he would try to get Trump involved in politics, but “never got anywhere.”

Mark Cuban has never been a Trumper.

In an interview on the “All-In” podcast that aired Thursday, Cuban said he was excited to see then-candidate Donald Trump, a one-time foreign candidate, running for president in 2015.

What’s so bad about the billionaire Trump is that, according to Cuban, the former president never listened to him.

Cuban said during the podcast episode that he was once excited by the prospect of a foreigner running for office.

“Okay, this guy has no chance of winning, but I think he’s great because I don’t like traditional politicians,” Cuban said, recalling the moment he saw Trump come down the golden escalator in June 2015. “There is nothing about me to say. think that the way we do politics or the way government is run is a good thing.”

In the early stages of Trump’s campaign, Cuban told the podcast hosts that he spoke with Trump a lot, estimating about 10 to 15 times on the phone, and that he would try to give advice or discuss politics.

A spokesman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

But Cuban felt those conversations were going nowhere.

“I remember asking him, ‘You know, do you realize as president that you’re going to have to make decisions where people can die?'” Cuban recalled. “And he really didn’t answer, ‘Yeah, I got it, I got it.’

Cuban told the podcast hosts that he would ask Trump about his campaign’s ground game, and Cuban said that Trump would brush off the concerns: “Yeah, I got the evangelicals to do all that, I’m not worried about this”.

Cuban also recalled a time when he tried to engage Trump in a discussion about privacy concerns.

“He didn’t want to talk about it at all,” Cuban said, “and that would happen more than once, where I would try to engage in conversations about some kind of politics, and it never got anywhere.”

One of the final straws, according to Cuban, was when he emailed Trump: “At some point you have to learn these things, you literally have to learn these things to be president, and he didn’t respond.” .

Cuban said on the podcast that’s when he joined CNN in 2016 and told the publication that Trump makes no effort to learn.

“Look, I like the guy, but he’s not learning,” Cuban recalled telling CNN. “He makes no effort to learn anything, and I think that continues ‘to this day, because you can’t look at the things he says and say, ‘That’s really an in-depth answer.’ Or, “That’s a nuanced answer.”

Cuban did not respond to a request for comment.

Cuban has been open about his grievances against Trump, calling the former president “unethical” and criticizing him for turning the Republican Party into his “family business.”

Even though the billionaire likes to point out that he’s not a Democrat or a Republican, Cuban endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July.

“I’ve said this many, many times: If there was a non-MAGA candidate, especially if it was still Joe Biden, I would vote Republican,” he told the podcast hosts. “I’ve voted Republican before.”