By now we are confident that everyone is sick to death and beyond of listening about elections, polling, conditional probabilities, permutations, (confusing) statistical sampling and heuristics, and all those other things that the vast majority of the population fail in STAT 101 yet somehow end up as experts in during cocktail hour, on TV, on Op-Ed columns and, of course, on twitter. Which is why we are delighted to bring you this comic interlude. Presenting Donald "The Hairpiece" Trump vs Mark "Avion Tequila" Cuban.
It all started with this:
@mcuban [7] just made the greatest charity offer EVER: Trump shaves his head, Mark donates $1,000,000 to any charity The Donald chooses. #genius [8]
— Sean Heath (@theseanheath) November 2, 2012 [9]
And then quickly got out of hand - and by out of hand we mean a Donald Trump self-promotional circus... because nobody would expect anything less, or more.
Dummy @mcuban [7] is at it again trying to use me to get publicity for himself!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [10]
.@mcuban [7] tries so hard to be a star and he truly doesn't have what it takes and never will! youtu.be/nq956tMSQgU [11]
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [12]
Only 1 mill. dollars @mcuban [7]? Offer me real money and I’d consider it. Your team and networks lose so much money I doubt you have much left!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [13]
.@mcuban [7] When Apprentice became the #1 show on tv you tried copying me with The Benefactor- a complete and total ratings disaster for @abc [14].
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [15]
. @realdonaldtrump [16] Ok DJT, Im already in 1mm for #Sandy [17] victims, if it all is dedicated to #Sandy [17] rebuild , here is what i will do...
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 5, 2012 [18]
. @realdonaldtrump [16] This is about charity. Im ready to make you a better offer.But to hear it you have to commit $ 1mm to #Sandy [17] relief first
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 5, 2012 [19]
.@mcuban [7] Baseball commissioner and owners were smart when they didn’t want you to buy a team--- but I don’t think you have the money anyway.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [20]
Come on@realdonaldtrump [16] ,you need to do better with the insults.This reminds me of when I used to pick on you when we were kids in Kenya
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 5, 2012 [21]
.@mcuban [7], Shark Tank was shoved to Friday evening-- Friday is considered “dead television.” Besides, you are not the star (& never will be).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [22]
After 13 seasons, @apprenticenbc [23] easily beat Shark Tank in ratings last year-- better demos as well.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [24]
.@mcuban [7] Letterman @late_show [25] had his best ratings with me--and you bombed. People don't care about Mark Cuban.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2012 [26]
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And so on.
Because this, ladies and gents, is how some people spend their time...