Media persona Stephen A. Smith is urging Democrats to seek out offers they are able to make with President Trump, criticizing their protests.
“What we’ve been seeing from them, it doesn’t resonate,” Smith said Wednesday on Fox News’s “Hannity.”
“It’s now not operating any further. We’re now not falling for the okey-doke and now not purchasing what they’re promoting,” he mentioned of Democrats’ quite a lot of protests at Trump’s joint cope with to Congress.
Smith known as on Democrats to “stand up, step up” as a result of their constituents despatched them to Washington to paintings with any management, regardless of the political association.
“I know they don’t like the fact that Donald Trump is in office, but the 47th President of the United States of America, his name is Donald Trump, and as you have told me on many occasions, if nothing else, the man is all about making deals,” he mentioned, pointing to Trump’s previous as a businessman.
“Find deals that he’s willing to make and make it happen,” Smith persisted. “Figure it out.”
Smith slammed Democrats, noting he doesn’t believe himself one, and wondered who got here up with the varieties of protest at Trump’s cope with. Rep. Al Inexperienced (D-Texas) used to be escorted out of the chamber after heckling Trump.
Smith, a highly-paid ESPN persona, has been an increasing number of speaking politics and hasn’t solely dominated out getting into the 2028 presidential race after Democrats’ brutal loss final November.