Mark Cuban: Media can’t be distracted by Trump’s tweeting ‘sideshow’

Mark Cuban — the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, billionaire businessman and frequent President Trump critic — said Sunday the media should ignore the president’s tweets and seek answers to bigger questions, such as what is affecting working-class families.

“They need to start ignoring this sideshow and look for answers to more important questions,” Cuban told FOX Business in a Sunday interview. 

Cuban said some of the unanswered questions are whether people have a better quality of life under the new president.

{mosads}”What has changed for you since the election? Have you gotten a raise? A better job? Has your cost for healthcare gone down?” the billionaire businessman asked.

Cuban’s comments come the same day Trump tweeted a modified video from an old wrestling appearance that shows him attacking and subduing a person whose face is obscured by a CNN logo. 

That tweet also followed Trump’s Twitter attack against MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, when he said she was “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when visiting his Palm Beach, Fla., resort around New Year’s Eve.

Cuban told the news outlet that this is all a sideshow that most Americans do not care about.

“Ninety-five percent of America cares as much about the battle between Trump and the media as they do cricket scores,” he added.

The NBA owner also said the media needs to better learn to sift through how Trump tries to “deflect and misdirect” attention.

“The media needs to learn that Trump is like any CEO — he will deflect and misdirect. It’s time to start talking to the people who go to work every day and find out what is going on in their lives,” Cuban told the news outlet.

Cuban, who supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign, has repeatedly criticized Trump.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not respond to Fox Business’s requests for comment.