Stephen A. Smith blames Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey for Kamala Harris' election defeat by Donald Trump

The quadrennial post-election digit pointing has ensnared Kamala Harris supporters Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, who Stephen A. Smith claims are blameworthy of alienating voters.

The Donald Trump professional and ESPN big is blaming the pair's rhetoric, successful part, for creating part betwixt men and women. In particular, Smith was upset that the erstwhile First Lady told an assemblage that 'a ballot for [Trump] is simply a ballot against us.'

'If we don't hold with you, we're against you?' Smith questioned. 'How bash you deliberation the men felt astir that? So we person to bash what you archer america to do; otherwise, we're anti-you? You thought that worked? Do y'all cognize thing astir about men? You deliberation that's going to work?'

As Smith sees it, the Harris run utilized 'guilty' to manipulate 'everyday people' 'into voting for Harris,' helium said on his podcast.

To bolster his point, Smith played a clip of Winfrey hinting astatine an anti-democratic takeover of the United States successful the lawsuit of a Trump victory.

'This is the benignant of worldly that alienates an electorate, alienates a voter,' Smith said. 'Because the state that you archer them you have, you effort to confiscate morally by letting them know, you ain't worthy a damn unless you ballot the mode we accidental you should vote.

'Who's going to spell for that successful a wide election? With an system rife with inflation, with implicit 12 cardinal radical crossing the border?'

The rhetoric besides serves to underscore the increasing disagreement betwixt elites and astir Americans, Smith explained.

'In the end, celebrities, who are worthy hundreds of millions, if not billions, who astir American citizens consciousness are incredibly detached from their mode of beingness and their prime of life, were not going to get distant and guilt them into doing thing antithetic than what their acquisition says is going connected and what they should bash astir it,' Smith said.

Not mostly considered a blimpish oregon a liberal, Smith has go progressively governmental this twelvemonth arsenic Trump and Harris campaigned for the Oval Office. He's adjacent made immoderate appearances connected Sean Hannity's Fox News program, with the blimpish big referring to the sports pundit arsenic a 'friend.'

It was connected Hannity's programme past week that Smith went viral for slamming the 78-year-old Trump's perceived intelligence decline. 

'I cognize you're not talking astir idiosyncratic being lucid and cogent, and enunciating their thoughts with clarity, and you're bragging astir Donald Trump,' Smith said. 'We can't beryllium watching the aforesaid worldly if that's what you're doing. 

Smith's governmental crook has coincided with his ongoing declaration negotiations with ESPN. Previously the New York Post reported Smith earns $12 cardinal annually with the Worldwide Leader, but he's rumored to beryllium successful the marketplace for a nine-figure deal.

'[Dallas Cowboys quarterback] Dak Prescott conscionable signed a declaration for $240 million,' Smith told the Who's Talking To Chris Wallace amusement successful September. 'He's making $60 cardinal a year. Has won 2 playoff games successful 8 years.

'I've been fig 1 for 12 years. I'm sorry; successful our respective industries I win, and I'm afloat alert of what I'm worth, and I volition ne'er apologize to that for anybody.'