Stephen A. Smith believes Barack Obama's recent friendly chat with Donald Trump at Jimmy Carter's funeral proves that voters can't trust any politician. The two fierce political rivals were captured by cameras engaged in what appeared to be a very warm discussion, with Trump later saying that he thinks Obama likes him.
But First Take host Smith was unimpressed by Obama appearing so friendly with Trump after such angry opposition to him on the campaign trail last year. 'Look, was it a good look for Barack Obama? No,' Smith said. 'Civility is the order of the day. One is a former president, the other is the president-elect. So there is a relationship to some degree that everybody should have. We get that, we understand that.
'Here’s my thing: it wasn’t a good look, but it wasn’t a good look because of Trump. 'It wasn’t a good look because of all the things that were said about Trump during the campaign while you (Obama) were trying to convince tens of millions of people to vote for Kamala Harris.'.
Stephen A. Smith was unimpressed with Barack Obama's friendly Donald Trump chat. Raising his voice, Smith continued: 'Fascist,’ ‘threat to democracy,’ you know, people bringing up Nazis and all of this stuff when they talked about Trump. So maybe if you (Obama) hadn’t said all of those things, people wouldn’t be going off like this.
'See, to me I look at it totally, totally differently. Everything goes in politics, we understand that. But in the end it just shows how we should be very selfish in our thinking in terms of us and what is in the best interests of the country as opposed to listening to what the hell these politicians say.
