Stephen A. Smith Says Obama’s Friendly Chat With Trump ‘Wasn’t a Good Look’: ‘We Just Can’t Trust Them’

Stephen A. Smith believed it was a bad look for former President Barack Obama to be chatting with President-elect Donald Trump at late President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

During Carter’s funeral, cameras captured the moment the two men engaged in a lengthy chat while seated next to one another. Trump later marveled at how friendly they looked and suggested that they actually like each other more than people might imagine.

On a recent episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show, Smith explained why it “wasn’t a good look” for the former president.

“Here’s my thing: it wasn’t a good look,” he said, “but it wasn’t a good look because of Trump. It wasn’t a good look because of all the things that were said about Trump during the campaign while you were trying to convince tens of millions of people to vote for Kamala Harris. ‘Fascist,’ ‘threat to democracy,’ you know, people bringing up Nazis and all of this stuff when they talked about Trump. So maybe if you hadn’t said all of those things, people wouldn’t be going off like this!”

Smith added that the moment between Trump and Obama was an example of why the words of politicians shouldn’t be trusted.

“Everything goes in politics. We understand that,” Smith said. “But in the end, it just shows how we should be very selfish in our thinking — in terms of us and what’s in the best interest of the country — as opposed to listening to what the hell these politicians say because we just can’t trust them. We just can’t trust them. The likelihood is that Obama didn’t mean half the things that he alluded to or flat-out said about Trump. Maybe Hillary Clinton did; maybe Michelle Obama did; but Barack Obama himself? Probably not.”

Watch the clip above.