ESPN host Stephen A. Smith addressed a recent controversial monologue by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who cried on stage Wednesday night over President Trump’s election victory. Kimmel said that while the election results are bad for those who voted against Trump, they will also be bad for those who voted for Trump, “but they just don’t know it yet.” spoke.
Smith, who is owned by the Walt Disney Corporation under the same corporate umbrella as Kimmel, clarified that Kimmel’s reaction did not reflect his own.
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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith told his co-hosts on “The View” that he thinks Donald Trump is “a mile away” from winning. (Screenshot/ABC)
“That wasn’t who I was,” Smith said when asked about this during an appearance on “The Will Cain Show” on Thursday. “It’s not posthumous, and it’s certainly not me crying. I’m not crying over the fact that Donald Trump is president.”
Smith went on to reveal the stark contrast between his own reaction to the news and Kimmel’s. Smith praised Trump’s handling of the economy during his first term before the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
“The American people have spoken. Say what you want, but this country is saying we’ve gone too far to the left. Enough is enough. We have to stop this nonsense. It’s a matter of our pocketbook, it’s a safety issue. And if you do that, don’t do it,” Smith said. “The bottom line is the economy was doing well before the coronavirus.”
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Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel cried on stage at Trump’s victory. (ABC | Joe Radle/Getty Images)
Smith even suggested that the size and margin of Trump’s victory was good for the country. Trump won the popular vote and won at least five of seven key battleground states as votes were counted in Arizona and Nevada.
“But at the end of the day, when the American people stand up, it’s a good thing that we stand together like we did this last election…That’s when the American people say, ‘We don’t like what we have. We want this.’ And once we do that, we have to listen,” Smith said. “He didn’t win, he annihilated her. So this was a frolic.”
Smith said if he were in Kimmel’s shoes, he would have simply tried to make the audience laugh, as late-night talk show hosts are often expected to do.
“So I would have tried, obviously late at night, to be a little bit funny and humorous and try to let people know that it’s not dark or doomed. And no matter what you think, we’re going to be dealing with a lot more in the coming years, long after Donald Trump is gone.”
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former President Trump, and former First Lady Melania Trump attend the Alfred E. Smith Foundation Annual Dinner on October 17, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Smith previously accused Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama of “alienating” voters ahead of Tuesday’s election during his monologue on “The Stephen A. Smith Show.” did.
Smith also claims he did not vote for Trump.
Meanwhile, Kimmel is one of the few mainstream entertainment figures to convey hysteria in the wake of Trump’s landslide victory. She joins female hip-hop artist Cardi B, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, and singers Billie Eilish and Whoopi Goldberg.
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