{"id":890414,"date":"2026-10-22T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890414\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:44:10","slug":"stephen-a-smith-fires-back-at-the-view-hosts-in-defense-of-dinner-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890414\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith fires back at ‘The View’ hosts in defense of dinner with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith defended his trip to the White House<\/a> to meet with President Donald Trump during an episode of \u201cThe View\u201d Wednesday, telling the co-hosts he wouldn\u2019t apologize for sitting down with the president.<\/p>\n

Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Smith, \u201cHe has this history of racial bias that is so clear. Did you think meeting with him, that you got anywhere?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll find out, but he\u2019s the president of the United States, and I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019m not going to try,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the reality is I\u2019m just speaking from a constitutional perspective in that regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it points to a bigger issue. There are so many people that have this mentality, \u2018Why even waste time talking to him?\u2019 Whether you like him or not, he\u2019s the president of the United States of America. He\u2019s not going away until 2028. At least. He\u2019s not going away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith met with Trump, comedian Bill Maher and Kid Rock at the White House Oct. 15.<\/p>\n

Hostin raised the possibility that Trump could be impeached<\/a> after the midterm elections, but Smith rejected the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019re going to have a situation where the Republicans are going to maintain the Senate,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThey\u2019ll probably lose the House. So, you\u2019ll get folks to impeach him, but then they\u2019ll step in and save him, and it will be an ongoing continuous thing.<\/p>\n

Hostin raised the possibility that Trump could be impeached after the midterm elections, but Smith rejected the idea. The View\/YouTube<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd don\u2019t get me started with that because I get disgusted with all that pomp and circumstance. I\u2019m so sick and tired of us acting like that\u2019s going to do something. He\u2019s not going away until 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to have to deal with him,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd when it comes to getting things done, I\u2019m all about exhausting every means and every measure to try to do what\u2019s in the best interest of our community. I\u2019m not apologizing for that to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The co-hosts told Smith they had invited Trump onto the show, but, on Tuesday, co-host Ana Navarro said there was \u201cno way in hell\u201d she would meet with the president.<\/p>\n

Smith defended his trip to the White House to the hosts on \u2018The View.\u2019 The View\/YouTube<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy for the cast of \u2018The View\u2019 to attack people for meeting with President Trump or crow about how they would never take a meeting with him,\u201d Nicholas Fondacaro, associate editor of the Media Research Center\u2019s NewsBusters, told Fox News Digital in a statement about the exchange.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne, they\u2019ll never be asked. Two, they\u2019re not counted on by anyone to be a champion of their cause.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s clear that \u2018The View\u2019 truly believe him to be the bumbling racist caricature that they and the rest of the liberal media paint him to be to their viewers,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey were visibly shocked to learn that Trump seemed to hear him out and called him a few days later to hear his argument again before he met with others about the HBCUs issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Navarro also pressed Smith on the meeting and questioned whether he pushed back on the president.<\/p>\n

Smith met with Trump, comedian Bill Maher and Kid Rock at the White House Oct. 15.<\/p>\n

The ESPN host said he pressed Trump several times regarding the war in Iran and added that Maher grilled the president during the meeting as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only other thing I would add is I\u2019m kind of disappointed that you\u2019re asking whether or not I pushed back because that shows me that you\u2019re not watching my SiriusXM show enough because I push back on Trump all the time,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n

Kid Rock spoke on \u201cFox & Friends\u201d about the meeting<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club on Oct. 17, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla. AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night, I\u2019m having dinner at the White House with the president, Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith. We all agreed socialism and communism has no place to have a foothold in our government,\u201d he said, before referring to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n

Asked how the dinner went, Kid Rock said the group had a great conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was epic,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the thing that was the greatest \u2014 there\u2019s so many points, I could do an hour on it \u2014 is that, you know, two Democrats, two Republicans sit down, break bread, have laughs, talk about, have tough conversations on a lot of the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN host Stephen A. Smith defended his trip to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[12,88,10815,1625,3692,2516,92,3123],"class_list":["post-890414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-media","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-stephen-a-smith","tag-the-view","tag-tv","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}