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Mark Cuban trolls Donald Trump for details on border wall with Mexico
Source: The Guardian
Mark Cuban trolls Donald Trump for details on border wall with Mexico
Twitter war heats up as the Dallas Mavericks’ owner requests
that the Republican presidential nominee release renderings
of the proposed wall
Sam Thielman in New York
Thursday 1 September 2016 18.16 BST
The strangest US presidential campaign in recent memory now includes a social media spat between its two most famous TV businessmen. In the blue corner: ABC’s Shark Tank celebrity investor Mark Cuban. In the red: the one and only former emcee of NBC’s The Apprentice, Donald Trump.
The two, and their surrogates, have been at it for months. But the latest spat, over the Republican nominee’s proposed border wall with Mexico and detention centers for undocumented immigrants, comes amid on/off rumors that Cuban might act as a surrogate for Trump during Hillary Clinton’s preparation for their first presidential debate.
Perhaps that’s why Cuban has taken to trolling Trump for details on his plans. For all his bluster about the wall, Cuban noted, Trump hasn’t provided any architectural or financial infrastructure for the project that has been the cornerstone of his campaign for the highest office in the land.
There’s also the matter of funding – is Trump proposing new federal government agencies? State government agencies in Cuban’s beloved Texas? How would the deportation process work?
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Twitter war heats up as the Dallas Mavericks’ owner requests
that the Republican presidential nominee release renderings
of the proposed wall
Sam Thielman in New York
Thursday 1 September 2016 18.16 BST
The strangest US presidential campaign in recent memory now includes a social media spat between its two most famous TV businessmen. In the blue corner: ABC’s Shark Tank celebrity investor Mark Cuban. In the red: the one and only former emcee of NBC’s The Apprentice, Donald Trump.
The two, and their surrogates, have been at it for months. But the latest spat, over the Republican nominee’s proposed border wall with Mexico and detention centers for undocumented immigrants, comes amid on/off rumors that Cuban might act as a surrogate for Trump during Hillary Clinton’s preparation for their first presidential debate.
Perhaps that’s why Cuban has taken to trolling Trump for details on his plans. For all his bluster about the wall, Cuban noted, Trump hasn’t provided any architectural or financial infrastructure for the project that has been the cornerstone of his campaign for the highest office in the land.
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Mark Cuban ✔ @mcuban
.@realDonaldTrump this is a real request. Can you publish renderings of the wall and it's placement on our southern border. I'll pay 4 them
11:37 PM - 31 Aug 2016
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Mark Cuban ✔ @mcuban
.@realDonaldTrump this is a real request. Can you publish renderings of the wall and it's placement on our southern border. I'll pay 4 them
11:37 PM - 31 Aug 2016
2,798 2,798 Retweets 3,913 3,913 likes
There’s also the matter of funding – is Trump proposing new federal government agencies? State government agencies in Cuban’s beloved Texas? How would the deportation process work?
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/01/mark-cuban-trolls-donald-trump-twitter-mexico
