Mark Cuban made plenty of noise along the campaign trail last Fall leading up to the 2016 presidential election, criticizing then-candidate Donald Trump. Now after Trump has been elected, Cuban remains a critic, especially on Twitter. When asked about his involvement in politics on BaD Radio with Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell on 1310 The Ticket, Cuban said it had more to do with the guy running than it did Cuban's urge to get involved in politics.
"Look, 17 years, the first 16 years I refused to talk politics at all," Cuban said. "Since 1999, I have never donated to any candidate, anywhere and that continues and it will continue. I've always thought you shouldn't mix the two. Celebrity, sports, whatever, there's no good reason to talk politics. This guy was obviously different, because I knew him. You don't hear me talking about other races, you didn't hear me talking about other political environments. I knew the guy and he scared the hell out of me. It wasn't like I loved Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I thought she was better because he is who he is."
Because of his high-profile as a sports figure as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, there has been plenty of speculation as to how fans would receive Cuban's voice in politics. Cuban said it hasn't been bad.
"Now, in terms of our business, I think we had 12 season tickets cancelled and I had eight people tell me they bought because they heard other people were giving me a hard time," Cuban said. "But I will say, in the bigger scheme of things, our season ticket holders haven't cancelled. All things considered, I thought our season ticket base, we're at over 15,000 season ticket holder equivalents, our walk up is up. A lot of our season ticket holders might not come to some of the games--Philly--so we'll get a lot of no-shows but overall our drop is actually up over last year... The games are fun. Actually, we're not bad at home. We've been playing really well at home and so people like coming to the games.
And most people aren't political. I try to tell people, less than 15 percent of America's population is on Twitter. On cable news, 2 million, 2.5 million, 3 million people is a big audience out of 340 million? So most people don't pay attention to this, and I really try to keep politics, and even mentioning it here, I typically won't talk much on sports shows. I really try to keep it to Twitter and cable news. And the people that are hard core politics, they're the ones that are going to get all upset. Call in and get all antsy about it and I'm like, "bro, hit the mute button." If you don't want to hear it, block me and you don't have to hear anything."
Will Cuban one day look to run for president?
"I doubt it," Cuban said. "I really doubt it."