--- title: Mark Cuban Offers Donald Trump $10 Million for an Interview description: Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban challenged Donald Trump to an interview, offering to give $10 million to the charity of Trump's choice canonical: https://time.com/4497748/donald-trump-mark-cuban-interview-challenge/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-16T20:50:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:36.525Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mark Cuban Is Offering Donald Trump $10 Million. There's a Catch og:description: "No one else is in the room to help. 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Businessman Mark Cuban appears onstage during the 2017 Miss America Competition at Boardwalk Hall Arena on Sept. 11, 2016 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Donald Kravitz/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Sep 16, 2016 8:50 PM UTC In a series of tweets on Friday, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban challenged Donald Trump to an interview, offering to give $10 million to the charity of Trump’s choice if he could grill the Republican nominee on his policies for four hours. Cuban has frequently taken to social media—and [late-night talk shows](http://time.com/4416966/stephen-colbert-republican-convention-mark-cuban/)—to taunt or criticize Trump throughout the presidential campaign. Cuban also said he [would have considered](http://time.com/4344072/mark-cuban-hillary-clinton-vice-president-nominee/) being Hillary Clinton’s running mate. Trump, who has faced scrutiny over [following through on charitable donations](http://time.com/4286473/donald-trump-veterans-charity/), has not yet responded to the challenge. Cuban proposed a one-on-one detailed interview that makes no mention of Clinton. “I’ll add an option. If you need it, I’ll write you the check and you can keep the money rather than give it to charity,” Cuban wrote on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/776817698097332224) > [](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/776818198792450048) > [](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/776818532612878336) > [](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/776820001063915522) > [](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/776822546800873472) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4497748/donald-trump-mark-cuban-interview-challenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4497748/donald-trump-mark-cuban-interview-challenge/"},"headline":"Mark Cuban Is Offering Donald Trump $10 Million. There's a Catch","datePublished":"2016-09-16T20:50:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:36.525Z","description":"\"No one else is in the room to help. 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