"Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban has a lot to say about the tech and business titans who are flocking to support former President Donald Trump.
"Watching what's happening in Silicon Valley is insane. It's not so much a support thing. It's more like a takeover thing, trying to put themselves in a position to have as much control as possible," Cuban said in an interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart that aired on Monday.
"They want Trump to be the CEO of the United States of America and they want to be the board of directors that makes him listen to them," Cuban added.
For the tech billionaires, backing Trump is an extension of their desire to dictate and dominate the environment around them, Cuban said in the interview.
"They've gotten to the point now where they feel like they should control the world right and that there should be a CEO in charge of everything because they are rich as fuck," Cuban told Stewart.
"You get to that point sometimes where I think they've lost a connection to real world," he continued.
During his 2016 presidential run, Trump relied on venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel as his most prominent backer from Silicon Valley.
But things are a lot more different in 2024. Now, Trump enjoys the support from Silicon Valley bigwigs like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
"My smartest friends, including those living in the San Francisco Bay Area who have been lifelong Dems, are excited about Trump/Vance," Musk wrote in an X post on July 21 about Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
"I believe in an America that maximizes individual freedom and merit. That used to be the Democratic Party, but now the pendulum has swung to the Republican Party," he wrote in a follow-up post on the same day.