After Biden calls Trump supporters “trash,” top surrogate suggests women in Trump's orbit are weak

WASHINGTON — Two days after President Biden called former President Donald Trump's supporters “trash,” a top campaign aide to Vice President Kamala Harris called the women close to the Republican presidential nominee weak and stupid.

“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. “Never,” billionaire Mark Cuban said Thursday on ABC’s “The View.”

“It's that simple. You scare him. He doesn't like being challenged by them. Nikki Haley will call him out on his nonsense about reproductive rights and the way he sees, treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can't have her with him. It wouldn’t work.”

Co-host Joy Behar mused that porn star Stormy Daniels is “intelligent,” and her colleague Whoopi Goldberg clarified, “He means the stage.”

The “Shark Tank” co-host’s insult sparked a fierce backlash from the Trump campaign and his female allies.

“Joe Biden called Trump supporters trash, and now Kamala's top deputy Mark Cuban insinuated that female Trump supporters are 'weak and stupid,'” said Trump-Vance campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“This is extremely offensive to the thousands of women who work for President Trump and the tens of millions of women who vote for him. These women are mothers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, and they are actually strong AND intelligent, contrary to what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say.”

Cuban will host a Harris campaign rally in Atlanta on Thursday after campaigning for her in Pittsburgh last weekend and appearing alongside her at a rally in Wisconsin on October 17.

Trump has had many top female aides during his time in office, including senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who survived sustained infighting in the West Wing with male critics and who, while remaining loyal to Trump, publicly offered advice on changes he might make during the current campaign .

Trump's other top aides in the White House included press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, a Harvard Law School graduate who was known for offering candid advice to the Oval Office when matters were being discussed among advisers, and her predecessor, Sarah Sanders, who later became governor of Arkansas.

Trump's wife, Melania Trump, successfully pressured her husband to end the “zero tolerance” policy of family separation of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border pursued by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and his daughter Ivanka Trump backed up on her father's tenure at critical times in his life, including directing a highly sensitive video after the 2021 Capitol insurrection to keep him on script and secure his political future.