{"id":2345360,"date":"2024-09-24T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-cuban-attacks-trump-on-tariffs-ahead-of-economic-speech-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:13:10","slug":"mark-cuban-attacks-trump-on-tariffs-ahead-of-economic-speech-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-cuban-attacks-trump-on-tariffs-ahead-of-economic-speech-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban attacks Trump on tariffs ahead of economic speech &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-cuban-attacks-trump-on-tariffs-ahead-of-economic-speech-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2345360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Billionaire Mark Cuban criticized former President \u2063Donald \u200cTrump ahead of Trump&#8217;s economic speech \u200cin Savannah,\u2064 Georgia.\u2063 Cuban, who\u200c recently\u200d endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, attacked Trump&#8217;s threats\u200d to impose steep tariffs on John Deere for relocating some\u200b manufacturing to Mexico. He \u200dargued that such tariffs could harm \u200cAmerican companies and favor Chinese manufacturers,\u200c referring to \u2062the detrimental impact it could \u2062have on the historic company. Cuban\u2019s criticism came as Harris&#8217;s campaign aimed to counter Trump&#8217;s perceived advantage on economic issues by announcing endorsements from \u2063numerous economists \u2063and\u200b unions, including \u200bTeamsters Joint Council 75\u2064 in\u2064 the South. Meanwhile, Trump\u200b defended his economic plans, asserting that his\u200b approach would benefit American workers, while his campaign dismissed Cuban&#8217;s remarks as uninformed. Harris plans to present her economic proposals in Pennsylvania\u2064 following Trump&#8217;s speech, as \u2063both candidates \u2063vie for \u200csupport in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/registered-and-likely-voters-pick-different-candidates-in-biden-trump-rematch-poll\/\" title=\"Poll: Registered and likely voters choose different candidates in Biden-Trump rematch.\">crucial\u200b battleground states<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mark Cuban attacks Trump on tariffs ahead of economic speech<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1767552\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mark-cuban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mark Cuban<\/a> championed Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a>&lsquo;s economic agenda hours before former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> is set to give a speech in Savannah, Georgia, touting his tax and manufacturing plans Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In a press call also joined by James Curbeam, the Teamsters&rsquo;s national black caucus chairman, Cuban criticized Trump over his threats to impose 200% tariffs on&nbsp;the company John Deere for moving parts of its manufacturing to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3160586\/who-has-hasnt-endorsed-harris-trump-election-cycle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WHO HAS AND HASN&rsquo;T ENDORSED HARRIS AND TRUMP THIS ELECTION CYCLE?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He says things off the top of his head that tend to often be ridiculous, if not insane,&rdquo; Cuban, who endorsed Harris earlier this month, said of Trump before moving on to the John Deere controversy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;First of all, I&rsquo;m not the expert in this space, but didn&rsquo;t he propose and sign the USMCA that defines the rules for which companies like John Deere can work and put manufacturing in Mexico?&rdquo; he added, referring to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump negotiated as president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you put 200% tariffs on John Deere for moving, a decision that they feel is right for their business, and you put a 10% or 20% crazy across-the-board tariff on Chinese imports, the net result is that you&rsquo;ve made it cheaper for Chinese manufacturers to compete with John Deere,&rdquo; Cuban continued. &ldquo;You literally face the destruction of one of the most historied companies in the United States of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump first threatened the company for moving its manufacturing during an event in rural Pennsylvania on Monday, telling the audience, &ldquo;If they want to build in the United States, there&rsquo;s no tariff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris has made Trump&rsquo;s tariff plans central to her economic arguments against him. The Biden administration has kept those Trump imposed essentially in place after he left office, but Harris has warned they are a tax on everyday goods.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will deliver remarks on his plans for &ldquo;new American industrialism&rdquo; in Georgia on Tuesday. One day later, Harris is expected to lay out new plans on the economy in Pennsylvania, the most crucial battleground state this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign spent much of Tuesday morning attempting to counter Trump&rsquo;s perceived edge on the economy, announcing the endorsement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3164045\/kamala-harris-400-economist-endorsements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>more than 400&nbsp;economists<\/a>&nbsp;and policy experts.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign also announced that the Teamsters Joint Council 75, representing members in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, endorsed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> after the national Teamsters union declined to support either presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Curbeam, the Teamsters&rsquo;s national black caucus chairman, said Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;record and agenda prove that he will sell out the working Workers of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He has no love for the union workers or members. He has no love for the working people of America. He only cares about himself,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why the Teamsters National Black Caucus, Joint Council 75, that includes Georgia, we endorsed Kamala Harris.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, for his part, has made repeated overtures to the labor movement, such as allowing Teamsters President Sean O&rsquo;Brien to speak at the Republican National Convention over the summer and addressing the striking United Auto Workers union last year in September.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has announced several economic proposals geared at the working class, such as ending taxes on tips, which Harris subsequently called for, and ending taxes on overtime pay.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mark Cuban has no idea what he is talking about &mdash; if he actually looked at Kamala Harris&rsquo;s failed record as vice president and listened to what she says, he would know her policies will destroy our country and the American dream for hardworking families,&rdquo; Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, said in response to Cuban&rsquo;s attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has made similar overtures to the working class as Trump by attempting to brand him as a crony for billionaires, as well as with policy proposals, including her plan to expand the child tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have criticized Harris for proposing a cap on the price of some goods as she attempts to distance herself from the 40-year-high inflation experienced under President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cuban cited Trump&rsquo;s new proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-could-run-into-trouble-with-temporary-cap-on-credit-card-interest-rates-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump could run into trouble with temporary cap on credit card interest rates - Washington Examiner\">cap credit card interest rates<\/a> at 10% to counter that line of attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got Donald Trump getting involved in price caps and price control to a greater extent than self-described socialist Bernie Sanders,&rdquo; Cuban said. &ldquo;And I think that just says so much about how far, how far Donald has gone to, you know, his socialist and communistic tendencies, right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When he was asked about the Biden-Harris administration maintaining some Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods, Cuban said, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with strategic tariffs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not 100% of everything that the Trump administration did was wrong, right? Maybe it&rsquo;s 95% but not 100%,&rdquo; Cuban said. &ldquo;Where there&rsquo;s a situation like a strategic tariff that&rsquo;s already been put in place, you know, it&rsquo;s great to continue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1767552\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1767552\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cuban criticizes Trump on tariffs before economic speech. Billionaire Mark Cuban endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s economic policies just hours before former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak in Savannah, Georgia, promoting his tax and manufacturing strategies. During a press call that included James Curbeam, chairman of the Teamsters&#8217; national black caucus, Cuban condemned Trump&#8217;s threats to impose 200% tariffs on John Deere for relocating some manufacturing operations to Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>Cuban remarked on Trump&#8217;s tendency to make outlandish statements and questioned the logic behind his tariff threats given that Trump had previously negotiated the USMCA, which sets rules for companies like John Deere operating in Mexico. He argued that imposing such high tariffs would ultimately harm American companies by making it easier for Chinese manufacturers to compete against them.<\/p>\n<p>Trump initially made these tariff threats during an event in Pennsylvania, suggesting that there would be no tariffs if companies chose to manufacture in the U.S. Harris has focused her campaign against Trump\u2019s tariff plans as detrimental to everyday consumers while the Biden administration has largely maintained those tariffs since he left office.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Harris is expected to unveil new economic proposals in Pennsylvania\u2014a key battleground state\u2014after her campaign worked throughout Tuesday morning to counter Trump&#8217;s perceived advantage on economic issues by announcing endorsements from over 400 economists and policy experts. The Teamsters Joint Council 75 also endorsed Harris after their national union opted not to support either candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Curbeam criticized Trump\u2019s record regarding labor issues and claimed he does not genuinely care about working Americans or union members. In response, a spokesperson for Trump&#8217;s campaign dismissed Cuban&#8217;s comments as uninformed and reiterated their stance that Harris&#8217;s policies could harm American families.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban also pointed out contradictions in Trump&#8217;s recent proposal regarding credit card interest rates while acknowledging some strategic tariffs from the previous administration might still be valid today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2345361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP23310844668101-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[41616,37388,13991,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2345360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-economic-speech","tag-mark-cuban","tag-tariffs","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP23310844668101-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}