Mark Cuban Slams 'Soulmate' Elon Musk, Says Silicon Valley's Support for Trump Is a 'Bitcoin Play'

After Elon Musk pledged to donate $45 cardinal a period to a pro-Trump Super PAC, chap billionaire Mark Cuban is taking a stance in nan different direction.

On X, nan app formally known arsenic Twitter and owned by Musk, Cuban responded to a station by task capitalist David Sacks that listed Silicon Valley leaders who support Trump arsenic President, including Musk.

"The prime is clear," Musk wrote, and Cuban replied, "The Virtue of Selfishness."

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Cuban followed up, saying his "contrary opinion" astir apt "won't beryllium popular," but he thinks Silicon Valley's support for erstwhile President Trump is "a bitcoin play."

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"Not because nan erstwhile President is simply a acold stronger proponent of crypto. That's nice," he wrote. "But doesn't really effect nan value of crypto. It makes it easier to run a crypto business because of nan inevitable and required, changes astatine nan SEC."

Musk and Cuban person a long, analyzable narration that has often played retired connected societal media, wherever they've debated everything from Twitter verification to politics.

"The bequest bluish checkmark meant that personification took nan clip to determine that nan personification mightiness beryllium capable to lend thing more," Cuban wrote aft Musk changed nan verification process.

Earlier this month, however, Cuban gave uncommon praise to Musk aft utilizing xAi's ChatGPT competitor, Grok, which Cuban said was "outstanding" technology. Now, nan billionaire can't get enough.

On Wednesday, Cuban called Musk his "soulmate" and thanked him for creating Grok.

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Cuban is simply a registered Independent but has voiced his support for statesmanlike campaigner Joe Biden successful nan past.

"If they were having his past wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being fixed past rites, I would still ballot for Joe Biden," Cuban told Bloomberg earlier this year.