No longer content with attacking Mark Cuban’s intelligence, Donald Trump instead took aim at his fellow billionaire’s golf game in a recent Truth Social post.
Specifically, the Republican presidential candidate claims that the minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks has “very slow clubhead speed” and is “a total non-athlete.”
Cuban, who is not known as a golf fan, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
“Mark Cuban is a loser,” Trump wrote of Cuban, who briefly considered becoming the former president’s running mate in 2016 before the two became bitter enemies. “He stopped answering his calls when he was in the White House, and he went rogue. A weak and pathetic ‘bully’, he has nothing wrong with him. Really slow clubhead speed, a total non-athlete!’
The famously golf-obsessed former president has made a habit of glorifying his own prowess on the links while criticizing the games of his political and social rivals.
Donald Trump has taken aim at Mark Cuban’s golf game, although it is unclear whether Cuban plays
The Republican presidential candidate said the minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks has “very slow clubhead speed” and is “a total non-athlete.”
Mark Cuban speaks at a campaign event for Kamala Harris in La Crosse, Wisconsin
Earlier, during his debate against current president and former Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Trump said the 81-year-old “can’t hit the ball 50 yards.”
Trump then bragged about winning two championships on his own golf courses.
“To do that, you have to be pretty smart and be able to hit the ball a long way,” Trump said.
Trump’s handicap was listed at 2.5 in June 2021.
The former reality TV star has received praise for his golfing from political allies such as South Carolina Sen. Lyndsey Graham and a number of former tour professionals.
“He can really hit the ball,” PGA legend Ernie Els said after watching Trump make a hole-in-one in 2022. ‘He makes good contact. He has a good swing. Like any amateur you have to do the short game practice. I keep talking to him about his chipping. He’s a pretty good putter. Previously he had to have a handicap of 4 or 5. Today he’s probably a 10, 12.’
Trump has also played with the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Brooks Koepka, both of whom have complimented his playing.
However, Trump is said to have developed a reputation for his deception at a club in Westchester, New York, where caddies compare him to Pele for his habit of kicking the ball to improve his lie.
“…the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back into the fairway that they came up with a nickname for him: “Pele,” wrote Rick Reilly in his 2019 book, Commander in Cheat.
Trump drives a golf cart at the Trump Turnberry golf courses in Scotland in May 2023
Cuban, a longtime investor with technology and Internet assets, bought a majority stake in the Mavs from Ross Perot Jr. in 2000. for $285 million. Since then, the team won an NBA championship in 2011 and he sold a majority stake to Sheldon Adelson’s widow Miriam for $3.5 billion, while retaining a 27 percent stake in the team.
Interestingly enough, Adelson is one of Trump’s top donors and recently gave $100 million to his campaign as part of an effort to support Israel amid its war with Palestine.
Cuban is not only a supporter of Kamala Harris’ presidential candidate, but is also actively supporting the vice president during his campaign.
Cuban is characteristically attacking Trump’s business acumen, his understanding of tariffs and his inability to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it.
‘This man knows so little about tariffs, he thinks China is paying for them. This is the same guy who thought Mexico would pay for the wall,” Cuban told an audience in Wisconsin.
“Did Mexico pay for that wall?” Cuban asked the crowd, who replied, “No.”