Dave Smith Hammers Trump: ‘I Just Have No Confidence In His Ability To Do Anything’

Cable news regular-turned-hit podcast host Dave Smith hammered former President Donald Trump as a know-nothing who can’t get anything done and is “wrong on a lot of issues.”

Smith was a guest on this week’s edition of Mediaite’s new Press Club podcast, hosted by Aidan McLaughlin.

When McLaughlin challenged Smith on Trump being something other than “establishment,” Smith veered into a blistering digression about Trump’s shortcomings:

The problem I’ve always had with Donald Trump is that there’s this weird thing where left-wingers and right-wingers all project something on to Donald Trump that doesn’t exist. The left-wingers see him as this Hitlerian figure who’s going to overthrow democracy. That is all, I think, very removed from reality. And then his supporters see him as this champion of the working class and this anti-establishment guy. And none of that is true. He’s just what you see. He’s Donald Trump. He’s what you always knew he was. He’s a guy who’s never read a book about anything. He’s maybe watched a show about it. He heard Sean Hannity talk about it for ten minutes. He got his talking points and he’s going to roll with that. Vivek Ramaswamy told him about this central bank digital currency thing. And he told him it’s no good. And then he went out and said it’s no good. And it got big cheers. So okay, that’s in now because that gets cheers. It’s that shallow. To actually drain the swamp, what are you talking about here? You’re talking about rolling back the biggest honeypot in the history of the world. All right? That might take some book reading.

Steve Mnuchin won’t stand for that.

Right. I just have no confidence in his ability to do anything. I think he’s wrong on a lot of issues. Particularly as we were talking about with the Israel stuff, I think his attack on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as Palestinians is so bizarre and out of touch with reality.

As if that is somehow evil.

As if that’s an insult somehow. And somehow the entire media class who’s been calling this guy a bigot nonstop for the last decade didn’t jump on that one, that didn’t seem to bother them that it was uttered as a pejorative. You’re a Palestinian, like if you turned to someone and said, you’re a dirty Jew or something like that, I think we’d all be talking about how unacceptable that is. Also his handling of Covid was such a disaster and not in the way that the corporate media said.

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