ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Says He Knows Trump Is Not ‘Racist’ from Personal Experience. I have no love for this noted race baiter. I always wondered why a sports reporter talks more about politics than sports. Odds are another affirmative action hire.
But he did get this one right. ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith recently batted down claims that Donald Trump is a racist and said he never saw or heard Trump acting like a bigot during any of their many personal meetings.
The ESPN First Take host was speaking at the Semafor Media Summit on Monday when the topic of the former president was raised in a question-and-answer period.
Smith pushed back on the left’s constant claim that Trump is somehow a racist. “I think he’s changed, but I will tell you this: I think when people call him racist and stuff like that, I’ve never thought of Trump that way,” Smith told the audience.
