Mark Cuban has revived one of his most blistering assessments of Donald Trump, declaring after roughly 25 years of knowing the current president that Trump is the most unethical, dishonest and character-deficient person he has encountered in business. Cuban made the remarks during a 2024 interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, where he moved beyond ordinary political criticism and offered what sounded remarkably like a decades-long performance review — except this one came with considerably more political consequences.
Mark Cuban Opens the 25-Year File
Mark Cuban’s criticism was unusually personal because he emphasized that his judgment was not based simply on watching Trump from a distance. Cuban said he had known Trump for 25 years, while making clear that the two were never best friends. He accused Trump of following what he described as a “Roy Cohn School of Management” approach, which Cuban said involved attacking others and giving credit to nobody else.
For Mark Cuban, that approach represented the opposite of good leadership and good character. He then delivered his harshest verdict, describing Trump as the most unethical, dishonest and lacking-in-character person he had ever done business with or worked with. In OGM News fashion, one might say Cuban had apparently spent a quarter of a century collecting evidence for a report card before finally deciding there was no polite way to write the comments section.
Mark Cuban Says Character Matters When the Stakes Are Presidential
Mark Cuban argued that character becomes particularly important in the presidency because nobody knows what crisis will arrive next. His argument was that a president needs empathy, the willingness to learn and the ability to make ethical decisions when faced with difficult and unexpected circumstances.
That argument explains why Cuban’s criticism went beyond simply saying he disliked Trump’s personality. Cuban questioned whether a person lacking what he considers sufficient character and ethics should be trusted with decisions made under enormous pressure. His position was therefore less “I don’t like this man” and more “what happens when the biggest decision of his life arrives and there is nobody else to blame?”
Mark Cuban’s criticism also fits a broader pattern in his public comments about Trump. In October 2024, Cuban told ABC News that he believed Trump had “fascist tendencies” and called him a threat, while campaigning for Kamala Harris. Cuban has also previously spoken about Trump in more favorable terms, including acknowledging that he once saw Trump as an unconventional political figure, before his assessment changed.
The result is a political contradiction that makes the Cuban-Trump story particularly interesting: a businessman who once praised Trump’s disruption of politics eventually became one of his loudest billionaire critics. Mark Cuban’s 25-year assessment remains his personal judgment, not an objective measurement of Trump’s character, but its bluntness ensures that the statement continues to attract attention whenever the old interview resurfaces.
For now, the Cuban verdict remains firmly on the political record: ethics, honesty, leadership and character are the issues Mark Cuban says voters should consider when judging Donald Trump. Whether readers regard Cuban’s assessment as a serious warning, political criticism or an extraordinarily long business-performance review is another matter entirely. OGM News will continue watching the story for whatever comes next — because apparently, after 25 years, Mark Cuban still has a few things to say.
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