Good luck finding someone to back down in this feud.
President Donald Trump continued the back-and-forth with Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday when he called the ESPN host “an arrogant fool” in an early morning social media takedown.
“Stephen A. Smith is an arrogant fool,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “A low IQ individual. In other words, he’s ‘dumb as a rock,’ and totally unqualified to ever think of running for high political office, or even low political office, for that matter! He’d get annihilated in a debate by the most incompetent of politicians. Joe Biden’s now ‘fabled’ performance would look great by comparison to anything that this loudmouth huckster has to offer, which isn’t much! Within a few weeks, they’d laugh him out of politics!!!”
Donald Trump called Stephen A. Smith “Dumb as.a rock.” REUTERSSmith expressed interest in running for the President of the United States in recent years, saying that people in Washington have actually come to him to run for office as a democrat.
He since has backed off those amibitions.
“I’ve been approached by people on Capitol Hill,” Smith said in Las Vegas in 2025.
This Finals-centric feud started when Smith was highly critical of President Trump’s appearance at the Knicks vs. Spurs Game 3 of the NBA Finals when he sat in a MSG suite next to Knicks owner James Dolan.
“This president has no business showing up in New York City,” Smith said ahead of Game 3. “I am dead serious. It is selfish, it is narcissistic, it is ridiculous that he is coming to this game.”
After the Knicks’ 115-111 loss to the Spurs on Monday, Trump slammed Smith.
Stephen A. Smith hasn’t been afraid to feud with President Trump. Getty Images for SiriusXM“I think he’s a nice guy, but you need a certain aptitude to run for president,” Trump said.to OutKick “You need a high IQ. I’m not sure that Stephen has that. I don’t think he does actually.”
Though President Trump appeared to fall asleep during the game, which Smith noted in his retort.
President Donald Trump attends an NBA Finals playoff basketball game between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden in New York, Monday, June 8, 2026, with Kai Trump. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein“Guess what he was doing during the game, ladies and gentlemen? Go online, look at the videos,” Smith said. “I’m not gonna accuse of him of snoring because I wasn’t an ear shot, but the brother wasn’t awake.”
Smith then took a shot at Trump’s nickname for former President Joe Biden.
“If it was that important for you to be there, why did you look like you were asleep,” Smith continued. “Didn’t you call out former President Joe Biden, ‘Sleepy Joe’? Well, what should we call you?”
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President Trump is not attending Game 4 of the NBA Finals due to a scheduling conflict.
