ESPN juggernaut and independent political commentator Stephen A. Smith went on The View Wednesday and delivered a series of basic lessons in politics that the panel did not want to hear.
Smith was booked after news broke that he’d spent more than four hours at a White House dinner with President Trump, Bill Maher, and Kid Rock last Thursday.
But the headline wasn’t what Smith revealed about the dinner. It was how he pushed back against The View’s obsessive hatred of Trump.
The first instance came when Smith told the ladies they’re going to have to deal with Trump until 2028. “He’s not going away.” View co-host Sunny Hostin shot back, “Well, he may get impeached and convicted.” Smith went off.
He told her to her face: That AIN'T GONNA WORK! Stop dreaming.
SMITH: "Hold on a minute... He’s been impeached TWICE.”
“I’m so SICK and tired of us acting like that’s going to do something.”
"Whether you like him or not, he’s the president of the United States of America. He’s not going away until 2028.”
Hostin had no comeback. She knew he was right. And so did the audience.
Whoopi vented to Smith that Trump can’t explain how he treats minorities and women, or the war.
Smith offered a fix she couldn’t stomach: “INVITE HIM and see if he comes.”
The panel erupted, and Whoopi looked like she wanted to throw up.
It got so hostile that Smith backpedaled just to bring down the temperature.
The ladies claimed they’ve already invited Trump, but only “invitations” on record are Joy Behar’s on-air dares.
In October 2024, when Hasan Minhaj asked whether they’d actually have Trump on, they said no. Sunny Hostin said, “I don’t think you normalize him,” and Whoopi said it would be “not advantageous for our audience.”
Fact check: caught in a lie.
Smith closed his appearance with a lesson for the ladies to chew on before they spend another show complaining endlessly about Trump.
He reminded them that 77 MILLION people voted for Trump, and you can’t just wave that away.
He told them you’re so busy being disgusted by him that you IGNORE why people voted for him in the first place: they’re sick and tired of a system that robs them of their tax dollars and never gets “something done for themselves.”
Whoopi clearly wasn’t a fan of that statement.
NOTE: I sat through this entire broadcast so you didn’t have to. Someone has to have the tolerance to watch it, and I’m taking that bullet. If these clip-based wrap-ups are useful to you, consider subscribing to support the work.
See it’s people like the view and our media that literally incite the violence and hatred for our President. It’s one thing to dislike his policies, his personality, but to bring up lies, untruths, and criticize every little thing he does, only perpetuates the problems that others believe about him. Shameful and so unfair.
Thank you for taking the hit. Those individuals are blind. They can not see the evil content they push out.