No longer content with attacking Mark Cuban’s intelligence, Donald Trump 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 “really low clubhead speed” and is “not an athlete at all.”
Cuban, who is not known to be a golf enthusiast, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
“Mark Cuban is a loser,” Trump wrote of Cuban, who briefly considered being the former president’s running mate in 2016 before the two became bitter enemies. “He no longer answered her phone calls while he was in the White House and became rebellious.” A weak and pathetic “bully”, he has nothing to do. Really low club head speed, totally a non-athlete!’
The former president, famous for his obsession with golf, has taken to touting his own skill on the golf course 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 if Cuban plays
The Republican presidential candidate said the minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks has “really low club head speed” and “is no athlete at all.”
Mark Cuban speaks at a Kamala Harris campaign event 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 boasted that he had won two championships on his own fields.
“To do that, you have to be pretty smart and be able to hit the ball from a distance,” Trump said.
Trump’s handicap was listed at 2.5 in June 2021.
The former reality TV star has received praise for his golf from political allies such as South Carolina Senator Lyndsey Graham and several former tour professionals.
“He can really hit the ball,” PGA legend Ernie Els said after witnessing Trump make a hole-in-one in 2022. “He makes good contact. He’s got a good swing. Like any amateur, you have to practice the short game. “I still talk to him about his chip. It’s a pretty good putter. In his day it had to be a 4 or 5 handicap. Today it’s probably 10 or 12 years old.”
Trump has also played with players such as Jack Nicklaus and Brooks Koepka, who have praised his play.
However, Trump allegedly gained a reputation for cheating at a club in Westchester, New York, where caddies compare him to Pelé for his habit of kicking the ball to improve his lying.
“…caddies got so used to seeing him kick the ball back into the fairway that they gave him a nickname: ‘Pele,'” Rick Reilly wrote in his 2019 book, Commander in Cheat.
Trump drives a golf cart at Trump Turnberry Golf Courses in Scotland in May 2023
Cuban, a longtime investor with assets in technology and the Internet, 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 sold a majority stake to Sheldon Adelson’s widow Miriam for $3.5 billion, retaining a 27 percent stake in the team.
Interestingly, Adelson is one of Trump’s top donors and recently donated $100 million to his campaign as part of an effort to support Israel amid its war with Palestine.
Cuban not only supports Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy, but also actively supports the vice president on the campaign trail.
Typically, Cuban attacks Trump’s business acumen, his understanding of tariffs and his failure to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it.
‘This man has so little knowledge about tariffs that he thinks China pays for it. “This is the same guy who also thought Mexico would pay for the wall,” Cuban told an audience in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
‘Did Mexico pay for that wall?’ Cuban asked the crowd, who responded ‘no.’