Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in next week's election, has apologized for his comments about her Republican opponent.

The owner of the Dallas Mavericks said this during an appearance on ABC on Thursday The view that former President Donald Trump did not surround himself with “strong, intelligent women.” Cuban made the remark in response to co-host and former Trump adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin's question about Trump not asking Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who was running for the Republican presidential nomination early in the race, to meet him to help strengthen support among female voters.

“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Never. It's that simple. You seem intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them,” Cuban said. “Nikki Haley will call him out on his nonsense about reproductive rights and how he sees, treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can't have her with him. That wouldn’t work.”

Commenting on his comments, Cuban wrote on Therefore, I apologize to anyone who was offended or upset by my response.” As I said, this was not about current or former Trump voters, supporters or employees.

Cuban's comments on The view drew the ire of Trump, those who worked with him and his supporters. The former president released a statement on Truth Social branding Cubans “fools” and “big losers.”

“All strong women and women in general should be angry at this weak man’s statement,” Trump wrote.

Republicans and Trump allies rallied to defend the former president. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump's most vocal supporters, posted on

“He's actually intimidated by strong, intelligent women like me,” Greene added after doing pull-ups.

Kayleigh McEnany, who served as press secretary in the Trump White House, said she found Cuba's statement “deeply offensive.”

“I worked for Donald Trump,” McEnany said on Fox News. “I consider myself a strong woman. I consider the people around me to be strong women.”

In March, Haley withdrew from the presidential campaign and later endorsed Trump, but did not campaign with him and was critical of his campaign. Speaking to Fox News host Bret Baier on Tuesday, she said Trump and his team have a “bromance” that “makes women uncomfortable.”

“You have affiliated PACs doing commercials about calling Kamala the C-word,” Haley said, referring to a recent ad from Elon Musk’s political action committee. “There were speakers at Madison Square Garden who referred to her and her 'pimps.'” That's not the way to win women.