Mavericks co-owner Mark Cuban says he supported Trump in 2015 when 'I didn't think he had a chance'

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Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban has been a vocal opponent of former President Trump. 

Cuban endorsed Trump's previous opponents, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, and Trump's 2024 opponent, Kamala Harris, while berating Trump with insults dating back to 2016. 

But Cuban was not always a Trump basher.

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Cuban supported Biden over Trump in 2020. (Getty Images)

Cuban has said he supported the former president when Trump initially launched his first presidential campaign in 2015. Cuban elaborated on his initial support of Trump during an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy on X Wednesday. 

"In 2015, I was like, ‘He's great. He's not a typical Stepford candidate. I thought that was a positive," Cuban said. 

Cuban added that one of the biggest reasons he initially supported Trump was because he didn't believe in Trump's chances to actually win the presidency and was looking to simply make a statement about the state of American politics. 

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban  (Tim Heitman/Getty Images)

"A big part of that is I didn't think he had a chance. I just wanted to kind of screw things up in traditional politics, which I'm not a fan of," Cuban said. 

Cuban was so enamored by Trump in 2015, the "Shark Tank" host even said he would consider being Trump's running mate in the 2016 election in an interview with Business Insider in July 2015. Cuban previously praised Trump and what he stood for in a post on Cuban's own "Cyberdust" social media app earlier that month, highlighting the fact that Trump didn't come from a traditional political background. 

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