ESPN host Stephen A. Smith said he was shocked at President Donald Trump’s support for his potential White House run, CNN’s “State of the Union” reported Sunday.
“I was aghast, to be quite honest with you,” Smith said on the show. “I wasn’t looking for any kind of endorsement from anybody, especially him. But he is the president of the United States. There is a bit of flattery that comes with getting such words from the man who holds the highest office in the land, and I can appreciate that.”
Smith said that “if I did take this very, very seriously and I moved forward and I decided that I wanted to be a politician, do I believe I could win? You’re damn right. But it’s by default. It’s not because I’m the most qualified candidate in the world. It’s because of the state of our politics in the nation’s capital, the politicians that we’re looking at, and the fact that we don’t believe for one second that they are serving the interests of the American people, nor are they interested in it.”
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