Trump Declares Election Victory, Congratulates Elon Musk – One America News Network
OAN Staff James Meyers
3:21 PM – Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Businessman Mark Cuban, a Democrat supporter of Kamala Harris, graciously acknowledged that Donald Trump won the 2024 election, offering his congratulations to the new President-elect in an early morning post to X (Twitter).
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“Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed,” the “Shark Tank” judge wrote Wednesday.
Cuban was known for stumping for Harris on the campaign trail, but received heavy criticism after claiming the now-elected 47th president doesn’t surround himself with “strong, intelligent women” while appearing on ABC’s “The View” last week.
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” Cuban told the talk show. “It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them, and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can’t have her around. It wouldn’t work.”
However, Cuban immediately regretted his careless remarks and tried to clear them up.
“It’s part of politics, it was my mistake, and I apologized for it. I certainly wasn’t saying anything negative about anyone supporting Trump,” Cuban said.
The billionaire also mentioned how his wife, Tiffany Stewart, said that she already commented on his remarks and does not have a problem with them.
“Tiffany watched the entire interview and had no issue with it. She knew what I was trying to say,” he said. “She also knows that when I do hundreds of interviews, there will be some I mess up on. I flubbed many more Mavs interviews that got me fined by the NBA. So she is kind of used to it.”
Nevertheless, Cuban seemingly backtracked and claimed that he was mostly referring to the fact that Nikki Haley was not very active on the campaign trail for Trump.
“This is what I said during a conversation about why Nikki Haley was not active in his campaign,” Cuban wrote on X Thursday. “I know many strong, intelligent women voting for Trump, including in my extended family. I’m certainly not saying female voters are not smart, strong and intelligent.”
“I know he has worked with strong, intelligent women, like Elaine Chao, Kelly Anne, Ivanka and many others,” Cuban added. “I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly.”
After winning the presidential election, Trump applauded several of the women that helped him take back the White House, including his “beautiful wife Melania” during his election victory speech on Wednesday morning in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“(She) has the number one best-selling book in the nation, can you believe it?” Trump said of his wife’s “Melania: A Memoir.”
“She’s done a great job, works very hard to help people, so I just want to thank her,” he added.
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