Mark Cuban says Trump’s billionaire backers know they can manipulate him because he’s ‘so transactional, and so devoid of core values’

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-says-trump-most-unethical-person-ever-business-2024-9

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  1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

    * Mark Cuban continued his criticism of former President Donald Trump in a recent interview.
    * The billionaire said Trump is “the most unethical” person he had ever done business with.
    * Cuban has endorsed Kamala Harris and is increasingly vocal about his dislike for Trump.
    * Cuban also has a theory on why Musk wants to get on the Trump train. “If you’re the wealthiest person in the world and you have control, effective control — you’re the puppet master of the president, the most powerful person in the world?” Cuban said. “Oh my god, that’s about as intoxicating — that is the definition of power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

  2. He is easily manipulated bc he has the mind of a toddler. An obese, deranged, and excessively gassy toddler.

  3. OppositeDifference on

    Don’t forget “terribly susceptable to flattery” and “terrified of appearing weak”

    And it isn’t just his financial backers who know where all his weaknesses and buttons are, world leaders know as well.

    Everyone saw how Kamala effortlessly led him around on a string for the entire debate, you think he’d do any better against Putin or Xi Jinping?

  4. This has been obvious about Trump since he won the presidency in 2016. Give Trump a bribe and butter him up with a little flattery, and he will become your trained monkey.

  5. ExtremeThin1334 on

    I think Harris demonstrated how easily Trump is baited.

    What concerns me more (provided Harris wins), is how may other leaders follow this example. Take MLB from Saudi Arabia. He definitely values the transactional over the committal. He repeatedly screwed over Biden OPEC negotiations because he valued short term profit. Similarly, he decided killings a journalist wouldn’t cost him over the long term.

    Long term, the US needs to completely decouple itself from the Middle East Energy Market (While the US has become energy “independent” under Biden, our energy costs are still very much dependent on the global prices of energy, and thus oil.

    Outside of the middle east though, this is broadly where transactional economics gets us – it’s not “how can we help each other?” But rather “What can I get away with while still getting a few extra bucks?”

  6. Literally anyone with half a brain can see this, and what a terrible idea it is having someone like that as President.

  7. Virtual-Pie5732 on

    Not to mention a narcissist with a huge ego. The fact that the man is willing to openly hang out with known Nazis because they praise him is something.

  8. Dictators, too. Laura Loomer. Anybody.

    Everything is nakedly for sale either to feed his avarice or his narcissism. Compliment him and help him make money, and anybody becomes important.

    He’s the feed me and tell me I’m pretty President.

  9. billionaires?!!! a fucking $2 hooker knows that.

    No offense to $2 hos. Saying they’re as smart as billionaires

  10. Mark Cuban has a take on why former President Donald Trump has some big backers out in Silicon Valley — and it has a lot to do with Trump’s character, he said.

    The billionaire investor and “Shark Tank” star discussed Trump’s politics in an [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDPrv8oFyY) with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen earlier this week, telling the progressive commentator that Trump is “the antithesis” of someone with good character.

    “I think they believe they can manipulate him. I think they understand that he’s so transactional and so devoid of core values that anything that they want they can manipulate him to get,” Cuban said of Silicon Valley backers of Trump.

    During his interview with Cohen, Cuban added that he thinks Trump is “the “most unethical” and “dishonest” person he’s ever worked with or done business with. It’s unclear what business Cuban is referring to.

  11. christine_cloudberry on

    BTW I love what Mark Cuban has done with Cost Plus Drugs. Single handedly bitch-slapping big pharma. My meds literally are 90% less. Not even worth filing the insurance. Just pay cash.

  12. christine_cloudberry on

    Two possibilities:

    1. Trump is too stupid to know that a tariff is a tax on the American public. In fact, this is the most regressive tax of all. It is just like a national consumer tax as it would hit everyone, including the poorest in the country.
    2. Trump is smart enough to know that calling a tax a tariff would let him gets away with it. He can then take the money that he stole from the poorest in the country to pass a tax cut for the rich.

    I’d say it’s 2. And, it’s a Republican ploy all along to transfer national wealth from the poor to the rich. This must be stopped.

    Go vote in November and vote straight Blue to wipe out Trump and his MAGA Republican Party.

  13. It’s as plain as the bronzer on his face.

    He is a man of shallow character and no moral.

    So easily manipulated…just tell him how great he is.

  14. This is my main take away hearing everything about Trump. He’s not immoral. He is amoral. He does not have a set of morals or anti morals. He’s just in it for power and feels. He as a dem for decades for Christs sake. Once you understand that, you understand how he can then be manipulated because he has no integrity or moral backstop. Whatever convinces him is where he’s at. And it doesn’t take much.

  15. Extension-Report-491 on

    Same way that actual authoritarian treat him. He’s easy af to manipulate. Look at the debate, she threw him off so bad.

  16. I mean the truth of it is Trump isn’t actually rich. He has a lot of assets but it’s mostly a house of cards mortgaged to the hilt where if anyone calls on their debt the whole thing falls apart.

    His only real power is that unless placated he has the power to kill the republican party and if he loses two presidential elections in a row I find it hard for rank and file Republicans to continue to back him especially when his choices in elections have been as bad as Robinson.

  17. He has no relationship that isn’t transactional. The guy lives his life with the desire of getting something out of every exchange. If he gets nothing than he is basically losing in his mind and its not worth his time.

  18. It’s not just that he’s transactional, he’s very easy to persuade. Whatever he’s all about on any given day is entirely due to who he last talked to.

    Remember when he talked to Obama during the transition and suddenly acted “nice” for all of the rest of the day until someone else reminded him to be MAGA?

  19. Key_Inevitable_2104 on

    While I’m not a fan of billionaires in general, Mark Cuban is one of the few billionaires I like.

  20. “hey lemme fuck your wife (nation).”
    “no fuck off.”
    “ok, you’re a pussy and you have a tiny weird shaped weiner, but ill give you some money.”
    “ok here ya go buddy! let putin know I’m into assplay.”

  21. Nice-Personality5496 on

    Yet, in the end, Trump will be able to use the powers granted him under the Supreme Court decision Trump v US, and be able to seize the assets of any billionaires he wants to, and/or execute, or in prison them, as long as it’s a “core official act“.

    This is exactly what Russia and China do to their billionaires who step out of line with the powers of dictatorship.

  22. And most importantly: **Republicans are devoid of core values**. He won’t lose a single vote for literally anything