Photo: Straight Shooter with Stephen A. / YouTube (@MrStephenASmith)
The biggest name in sports talk went to the White House on Thursday, sat down with the president for about 40 minutes, and did it for a channel he owns. Stephen A. Smith interviewed President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room on November 12 for “Straight Shooter with Stephen A.,” his own YouTube show, and the episode went up on his channel the same evening. Whatever anyone thinks of either man, the booking itself is the story: a presidential sit-down, granted not to a network but to a sports commentator’s independent platform.
