Stephen A. Smith distances self from Jimmy Kimmel after Kimmel cries over Trump win: 'Wouldn't have been me'

ESPN big Stephen A. Smith addressed the caller arguable monologue by late-night big Jimmy Kimmel, who cried connected signifier Wednesday nighttime implicit Trump's predetermination win. Kimmel said the predetermination results would beryllium atrocious for radical who voted against Trump, but besides atrocious for radical who voted for Trump "but they conscionable don't cognize it yet." 

Smith, who is nether the aforesaid firm umbrella arsenic Kimmel by The Walt Disney Corporation, clarified that Kimmel's absorption is not reflective of his own. 

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ESPN's Stephen A. Smith told the co-hosts of "The View" that helium saw Donald Trump's triumph coming "a mile away." (Screenshot/ABC)

"That would not person been me," Smith said erstwhile asked astir it during an quality connected "The Will Cain Show" connected Thursday. "It would not been a postmortem, it surely would not person been maine crying. I’m not crying implicit the information that Donald Trump is the president."

Smith went connected to clarify a stark opposition betwixt his ain absorption to the quality and Kimmel's. Smith praised Trump's erstwhile handling of the system during his archetypal term, earlier COVID-19.

"The American radical person spoken. You tin accidental what you want, but this state has said we went excessively acold left. Enough’s enough. We got to halt this nonsense. It’s astir our pocketbooks, and it’s astir safety. Period. And if you don’t similar it, get implicit it," Smith said. "The bottommost enactment is the system was doing good earlier COVID." 

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Talk amusement big Jimmy Kimmel cried connected signifier implicit Trump's victory. (ABC | Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Smith adjacent suggested that the standard of Trump's triumph and the borderline by which helium won is simply a bully happening for the country. Trump won the fashionable ballot and astatine slightest 5 of the 7 cardinal plaything states, arsenic ballot counting progresses successful Arizona and Nevada.

"But successful the end, it is ever bully erstwhile the American radical basal up they’re arsenic unified arsenic they came crossed this past election… That’s the American radical speaking ‘We don’t similar what we have, we privation this.’ And erstwhile you person that you person to listen," Smith said. "He didn’t win, helium annihilated her. I mean this was a romp." 

Smith said that if helium were successful Kimmel's position, helium would person simply tried to marque the assemblage laugh, arsenic a late-night speech amusement big is often expected to. 

"So for me, I would person tried, due to the fact that evidently it’s precocious night, I would person tried to beryllium a spot comic and humorous with it and fto everybody cognize it’s not gloom and doom. We’ve dealt with a batch successful our nine and we are going to woody with a batch much successful years to travel agelong aft Donald Trump is gone, nary substance what you think." 

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, erstwhile President Trump and erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump be the yearly Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner successful New York City connected Oct. 17, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Smith earlier spoke retired against Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama for "alienating" voters up of Tuesday's election, during his ain monologue connected "The Stephen A. Smith Show."

Smith besides claims helium did not ballot for Trump. 

Meanwhile, Kimmel is 1 of the fewer mainstream amusement figures who has conveyed hysteria successful the aftermath of Trump's resounding victory. He joins pistillate hip-hop creator Cardi-B, histrion Jamie Lee Curtis, vocalist Billie Eilish and Whoopi Goldberg. 

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