{"id":338576,"date":"2026-02-14T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/trump-endorsed-stephen-a-smith-for-president-now-smith-says-hes-giving-strong-consideration-to-running-against-trumps-party"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:32:34","slug":"trump-endorsed-stephen-a-smith-for-president-now-smith-says-hes-giving-strong-consideration-to-running-against-trumps-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/trump-endorsed-stephen-a-smith-for-president-now-smith-says-hes-giving-strong-consideration-to-running-against-trumps-party","title":{"rendered":"Trump Endorsed Stephen A. Smith for President. Now, Smith Says He\u2019s \u2018Giving Robust Consideration\u2019 to Operating In opposition to Trump\u2019s Get together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Last May, Bill O\u2019Reilly \u2014 the former Fox News host fired in 2017 after settling multiple sexual harassment lawsuits \u2014 called President Trump live on a NewsNation town hall and asked if he had any advice for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1946567\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stephen A. Smith\u2019<\/strong><\/a>s potential presidential run. Trump didn\u2019t blink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been pretty good at picking people and picking candidates,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I will tell you, I\u2019d love to see him run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith, sitting on stage next to Chris Cuomo, put his head in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Nine months later, Smith told CBS News he\u2019s \u201cgiving strong consideration\u201d to running for president in 2028. As a Democrat. Against Trump\u2019s party. The endorsement, it turns out, was not a joke. Or maybe it was, and Smith just didn\u2019t get the memo.<\/p>\n<h2>The endorsement that aged like milk<\/h2>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Talks Stephen A. Smith For PRESIDENT, Zelensky And Tariffs During Chris Cuomo Townhall\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RAJT83A4hfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\nLet\u2019s revisit what Trump actually said, because it\u2019s worse than you remember.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen A., he\u2019s a good guy. He\u2019s a smart guy. I love watching him,\u201d Trump told the town hall audience. \u201cHe\u2019s got great entertainment skills, which is very important. People watch him. You know, a lot of these Democrats I watch, I say they have no chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read that again. The sitting president evaluated a potential opponent\u2019s fitness for the highest office in the country and landed on: he\u2019s entertaining. Not policy experience. Not a legislative record. Not a single mention of governance. Entertainment skills. And then, in the same breath, said the Democrats have no chance \u2014 while endorsing someone who now wants to be one.<\/p>\n<p>One user on X simply responded with \u201cBruh\u2026 Please\u2026\u201d and a GIF of two people howling with laughter. It hit 1,400 views in under eight hours. Another put it perfectly: \u201cThe guy who roasts LeBron weekly wants to roast world leaders. DNC primary would be the highest-rated show in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A Democrat who would rather be anything else<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8NEW: Stephen A. Smith:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gotta stop acting like the Democratic Party is the party for the working man and women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump won because the working man and women felt that the Democrats were no longer for the working class. They were for the elitist on the left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aISp7WrVcs\">pic.twitter.com\/aISp7WrVcs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Cohen \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonJournoDC\/status\/1973927851825975301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith told CBS he\u2019d run as a Democrat because he \u201ccouldn\u2019t see myself running as a member of the GOP.\u201d Fine. Except here\u2019s everything else he\u2019s said about the party he\u2019d represent:<\/p>\n<p>August 2025, on Bill Maher\u2019s show: \u201cA damn construction worker could win the Democratic nomination right now, as bad as it is.\u201d On the same show: he\u2019s \u201cdisgusted\u201d with the left. Also publicly: he regrets voting for Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>So to summarize: he\u2019s disgusted with Democrats, regrets voting for their last nominee, thinks anyone could beat them, got his loudest endorsement from the Republican president \u2014 and wants to carry their banner in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>One X post racked up 183,000 views in eight hours. It didn\u2019t mince words: \u201cWe don\u2019t need more celebrity presidents. I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re Democrat.\u201d Fifteen thousand people liked it. Another user posted a collage of prominent Black women in politics, all wearing the exact same expression of exhausted disbelief. The caption: \u201cStephen A. Smith: I want to be president, maybe! Everybody:\u201d It pulled nearly 500 views before most of the country had woken up.<\/p>\n<h2>The most honest or most disqualifying thing a candidate has ever said<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1361425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1361425\" style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1361425 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"America\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A-768x512.jpg 768w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"final celeb president\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1361425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A.jpg\" alt=\"final celeb president\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/stephen-A-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1361425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: @stephenasmith\/YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s what makes this genuinely fascinating. Smith told CBS: \u201cI have no desire to be a politician, zero. I have no desire to run for office.\u201d Then, without pausing: \u201cI\u2019m not ruling it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he\u2019ll spend 2026 studying policy. His exact words: \u201cI\u2019ve got this year coming up, 2026, to think about it, to study, to know the issues.\u201d A man who gets paid $20 million a year to have the loudest opinion in every room just admitted on national television that he needs a year to learn the subject matter. That\u2019s either radical honesty or a disqualification letter he wrote himself.<\/p>\n<p>He has never held office. Never run for anything. Polled at 2 percent in a 2025 Democratic primary survey. He claims \u201celected officials\u201d and \u201cbillionaires\u201d have encouraged him. He named none of them. His $100 million ESPN contract extension, signed in 2025, suggests the network isn\u2019t exactly planning for his departure.<\/p>\n<h2>We\u2019ve seen this movie before<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stephen A. Smith is moving closer to a 2028 campaign\u2026 spending a few days with him in recent months reminded me of spending a few days with Trump back in 2013-2014. Many laughed at the prospect of a bid. But in an age of celebrity and social media\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VrTmJUWtsB\">https:\/\/t.co\/VrTmJUWtsB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Costa (@costareports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/costareports\/status\/2022332927221317962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the interview, CBS correspondent Robert Costa posted on X that spending time with Smith reminded him of covering Trump in 2013 and 2014. \u201cMany laughed at the prospect of a bid,\u201d Costa wrote. \u201cBut in an age of celebrity and social media\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t finish the sentence. He didn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>The full CBS interview airs Sunday. Smith says he\u2019ll spend the year studying. America will spend the year deciding whether to laugh or pay attention \u2014 which, if you think about it, is exactly how the last celebrity president got started.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/trump-endorsed-stephen-a-smith-for-president-now-smith-says-hes-giving-strong-consideration-to-running-against-trumps-party\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May, Bill O\u2019Reilly \u2014 the former Fox News host fired in 2017 after settling multiple sexual harassment lawsuits \u2014 called President Trump live on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4557],"tags":[502,16626,6017,904,15211,4107,609,1425,7945,156,16625],"class_list":["post-338576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-america","tag-final-celeb-president","tag-gif","tag-head","tag-jason-cohen","tag-kamala-harris","tag-president","tag-republican-party","tag-republican-president","tag-social-media","tag-stephen-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338578,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338576\/revisions\/338578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}