Posted on 10/20/2017 12:23:06 PM PDT by drewh
In the age of a billionaire president with no real political experience, Mark Cuban, another billionaire with no real political experience, is being asked quite a bit about a prospective presidential bid.
And he's not ruling it out. During an interview on the Fox News show Objectified (airing Sunday), the Shark Tank personality and owner of the Dallas Mavericks said he's qualified to be commander in chief.
“I think we’re going into a time where you need somebody who can connect to people and relate to people, and I think I qualify on each of those," Cuban told host Harvey Levin. He sidestepped the question of whether he'll actually run for president: "Whether or not I’ll do it—it’s a big decision."
The more noncommittal he got, the more he sounded like a politician:
I wouldn’t run unless I have solutions. If I have solutions, then I have something to offer. If I don’t, you won’t see me anywhere near being a politician.
Though not a liberal, Cuban, 59, has been critical of President Donald Trump, and in 2015, he mused that he "could beat both Trump and Clinton" in the 2016 election. With his vast fortune and reality TV background, he has plenty of things in common with the 45th president, which would make for a bizarre 2020 showdown. (He has suggested he could run as an independent instead of a Democrat.)
It's not the first time he's teased a presidential bid. Earlier this month, Cuban said he was "seriously considering" a run for president, and that he would "definitely be running" if he were single.
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He is not qualified to be a Lewinsky dipped cigar!
To be honest... after ‘O’, who ISN’T qualified?
The bar wasn’t lowered... it was ignored for “O”
Who does this guy think he is, Donald Trump?
BS!
Great! Thanks for sharing, Mark. I just caught myself wondering earlier this morning gee, I wonder if Mark Cuban is qualified to be POTUS, and now I know.
I can go on about the rest of my day now, yay.
He was president in SHARKNADO 3...Ann coulter was his V.P.
Yes, run as independent
oh good grief!
This is the same guy who predicted a Stock Market crash if Trump won.
I laughed my ass off when Richard Rawlings sold him a hot-rodded ‘56 Ford for $80,000. Richard bought it from one of his employees for $3,500. Maybe Richard is more qualified to be President than Cuban.
One percenter. Backslid Jew with a shiksa wife. Bastard kid with an underage girl. He’d be a perfect Dem for the last election, but his ship may have sailed now.
‘zactly. And Mr. Trump was already a legend when all that was going on.
Run. Let’s see how you handle being maligned 24/7...
Run. Let’s see how you handle being maligned 24/7...
He’s a clown show.
He was a tech salesman early on in his career. He was disloyal to them. He got some friend to develop some program to listen to basketball games. Yahoo was a bunch of idiots and paid billions before the dot.com burst. Since then, he’s worth about the same amount of money. An average investor could have done more with the lotto he won with the gift from Yahoo’s clowns.
Didn’t CUBAN get into some king of legal trouble concerning the Girls Gone Wild reality show?
He does smoke cigars.
Trump is a billionaire, I am sure Cuban would say he is not qualified.
Cuban is insanely jealous of Trump, and his animus towards Trump is very personal. He tried to do a show that was a rip-off of “The Apprentice” and it was a total bomb.
On Shark Tank, Cuban always comes off as the most impatient and sarcastic of the sharks. He can be really, really mean.
Lol!
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