Republicans fearful that a billionaire TV celebrity with little to no experience in politics being the next commander in chief are reportedly keen on getting another billionaire TV celebrity to run against him in Mark Cuban.
The overall effort to draft up an independent nominee to stop both Trump and Hilary Clinton has been well reported already, but the fact that some GOP insiders had drafted Mark Cuban as a potential candidate should strike you as… odd. Thankfully, because Cuban is a sensible man, he turned it down.
Mark Cuban to his old pal Donald Trump: "You're a goddamn airhead" https://t.co/S6kCgn1U5A pic.twitter.com/NdZsGFqa7g
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 13, 2016
Though Cuban isn’t going to run against him, he doesn’t have any problem speaking his mind about Trump. “He could come after me all he wanted, and he knows I would put him in his place,” Cuban told the Post. “All that said, again, I don’t see it happening. There isn’t enough time.”
He also spoke to Business Insider this week, and he continued to bash Trump as hard as he could.
“There’s that guy who’ll walk into the bar and say anything to get laid. That’s Donald Trump right now to a T. But it’s all of us who are going to get fucked.”
“We go way back, and it’s a love-hate relationship. Everybody’s got that friend that you just shake your head at. He’s that guy who’d get drunk and fall over all the time, or just says dumb shit all the time, but he’s your friend.”
“I would get a vice-presidential candidate who’s someone like me who would just throw bombs at Donald. And I would be like, ‘Donald, I like you. We’re friends, but you’re a goddamn airhead.’”
We all know Robert Herjavec and Kevin O’Leary are always circling Cuba’s leftovers on Shark Tank so while I’d suggest them, but both are Canadian. Maybe Republicans can get Lori or Damon perhaps?
[Washington Post/Business Insider/Deadspin]
