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Mark Cuban says Silicon Valley tech bros have lost their grip on reality and now want to be the board of directors to Trump's CEO
By Kwan Wei Kevin Tan,
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"It's not so much a support thing. It's more like a takeover thing," Mark Cuban said of the support that Donald Trump was getting from tech titans.
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Mark Cuban has said Donald Trump's Silicon Valley backers seem to be taking over his campaign.
"Watching what's happening in Silicon Valley is insane," Cuban told Jon Stewart in an interview.
He said the Silicon Valley backers wanted Trump to be the US's CEO, with them being his board of directors.
The "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban has a lot to say about the tech and business titans who are flocking to support former President Donald Trump .
"Watching what's happening in Silicon Valley is insane. It's not so much a support thing. It's more like a takeover thing, trying to put themselves in a position to have as much control as possible," Cuban said in an interview with the "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart that aired on Monday.
"They want Trump to be the CEO of the United States of America and they want to be the board of directors that makes him listen to them," Cuban added.
He said that for the tech billionaires, backing Trump was an extension of their desire to dictate and dominate the environment around them.
"They've gotten to the point now where they feel like they should control the world right and that there should be a CEO in charge of everything because they are rich as fuck," Cuban told Stewart.
"You get to that point sometimes where I think they've lost a connection to real world," he continued.
During his 2016 presidential run, Trump relied on the venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel as his most prominent backer from Silicon Valley.
"My smartest friends, including those living in the San Francisco Bay Area who have been lifelong Dems, are excited about Trump/Vance," Musk wrote in an X post on July 21 about Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
"I believe in an America that maximizes individual freedom and merit. That used to be the Democratic Party, but now the pendulum has swung to the Republican Party," he wrote in a follow-up post on the same day.
When Harris unveiled Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, Cuban said the Harris-Walz ticket could have an edge over Trump-Vance because of their non-elite academic backgrounds .
"People are tired of the ideologues and hate from both parties. They want to vote for normal people they can relate to," Cuban wrote in an X post on August 6.
Representatives for Cuban and the Trump campaign didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
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